CNN Prespectives Presents: COLD WAR - Vol 1 - Comrades 1917-1945; Iron Curtain 1945-1947

by Michael Ondaatje, Ralph Fiennes

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Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as World War II ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. In lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael Ondaatje weaves these characters together, pulls them tight, then unravels the threads with unsettling acumen.

A book that binds readers of great literature, The English Patient garnered the Booker Prize for author Ondaatje. The poet and novelist has also written In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid; two collections of poems, The Cinnamon Peeler and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do; and a memoir, Running in the Family.

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	CNN Prespectives Presents: COLD WAR - Vol 2 - Marshall Plan, Berlin »rank: 55936 from: CNN Productions & Warner Home Video : :3) MARSHALL PLAN 1947-1952: The United States adopts the Truman doctrine, pledging to defend freedom worldwide. Secretary of State George Marshall plans to bolster economic recovery in Europe. Seeing this as a treat, Stalin forbids his satellites to particpate. The world effectively divides. 4) BERLlN 1948-1949: ln Berlin, the American, British and French sectors form a Western enclave in the Soviet zone of divided Germany. ln June 1948, the Soviets blockade the city, but the Western allies successfully airlift in supplies. ln ...		CNN Prespectives Presents: COLD WAR - Vol 1 - Comrades 1917-1945; Iron Curtain 1945-1947 »rank: 54553 from: CNN Productions & Warner Home Video : :1) C0MRADES 1917-1945: Though ideological enemies, the Soviet Union and the United States are allies against Hitler during World War ll. At the end of the war, Europe is divided, and the one-time allies now confront each other. The United States has the atomic bomb. - 2) lR0N CURTAlN 1945-1947: The Soviet Union dominates Eastern Europe. Churchill warns of the consequences. Stalin insists that the governements of the Soviet Union's client states be pro-communist. lmpoverished after the war, Great Britain opts out ...

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