Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supervised every detail of submarine construction, and was responsible for the dispersal of factories throughout occupied Europe to escape British bombings...
Some readers will think not. They can nevertheless read Mr. Churchill for its author's sense of history as a pageant of personalities, his eye for vivid, incongruous detail, his ability to compress masses of fact into a smooth ribbon of narrative. They can also read it to trace the development of Winston Churchill from the specious Victorian calm into which he was born, until, an old man, he put the will of a battered empire into four words: "We shall never surrender...
...mistakes were not of detail. They were, rather, mistakes of conception. Adolf Hitler had played his cards as well as ever; the disaster was in the size...
...goes into much greater detail than the Malvern resolutions (of which 500,000 copies have been sold) about the economic goals it sets for humanity...
Gaited to the unexhilarating life of an upState New York small town, Remember tells its story with homely detail. It shows the customary travail of a boy growing up; the teacher's wisdom grooving his bright young talents; her dubious reward in seeing him (John Shepperd), long after, become a U.S. Presidential candidate. There is also the teacher's furtive romance with the manual training teacher (John Payne), and their painful discovery of how sadistically the community minds their well-meant morals...