Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Danger and Purpose. Karski tells his story impersonally; and it differs from classic adventure stories because the organization rather than the individual is the central figure in it. The fates of the underground soldiers were dwarfed by the depthless misery and heroism of the people they served. When Story of a Secret State is not an adventure story, it is often hackneyed. When it tells of flight, pursuit, escape, triumph, it carries conviction in every incident. Its killings are coldblooded, its sorrows without tears. Dziepatowski, Karski's violinist friend, was caught and executed after he had killed a German...
...heroism and conduct there, Chesty Puller got his fourth Navy Cross-a record in the Corps...
...same applies to portraying the Soviet Army and the Russian people. It is quite natural that in wartime a patriotic writer is moved mainly by the people's courage, their heroism and their scorn of death. He is far less prone to dwell on other emotions which unquestionably do exist in people's hearts - on such feelings as a longing for home, on man's natural fear in the face of peril, on bodily fatigue and depressing thoughts...
...heroism of our people, their self-sacrifice, their contempt for death - this is the main theme. This is truth...
...which has twice hurt Russia, will never divide the Slavic peoples again; 4) memorialize German bestiality as it was revealed at Lidice and Maidenek; 5) occupy itself with human honor, conscience and soul; 6) call on Russians for a new effort of creativeness and rouse them to transfer the heroism they have shown in war to achievements in peace ; 7 ) explore England and America, whose aid in the war will not be forgotten...