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The action is set in London during the Second World War.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
An invasion by China could force a conflict the likes of which haven't been seen since the Second World War, argues author Kerry Brown.
—Meredith Wolf Schizer, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
In the postwar period, right after the end of the Second World War, there was a culture clash between establishment lifestyle–the man in a gray flannel suit who works in a corporate job and has a conventional kind of nuclear family and white-picket-fence house—and the counterculture.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
No premiere Claude Lanzmann’s monumental Holocaust film, made over 12 years from interviews filmed around the globe with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators, powerfully recounts the extermination of six million Jews during the Second World War.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
An invasion by China could force a conflict the likes of which haven't been seen since the Second World War, argues author Kerry Brown.
—Meredith Wolf Schizer, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
In the postwar period, right after the end of the Second World War, there was a culture clash between establishment lifestyle–the man in a gray flannel suit who works in a corporate job and has a conventional kind of nuclear family and white-picket-fence house—and the counterculture.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
No premiere Claude Lanzmann’s monumental Holocaust film, made over 12 years from interviews filmed around the globe with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators, powerfully recounts the extermination of six million Jews during the Second World War.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
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