Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...create the atmosphere of Chicago in the roaring twenties. To bring the cast together and to help people get into the period, the director screened gangster movies and Third Reich documentaries in his room every week. And he worked closely with Raphael to get the actor to emulate Hitler's mannerisms...
...false-heroic style. Here is Adolf Hitler, who indulged himself in late- night monologues to his adjutants about vegetarianism, the old days in the trenches and the "sapping effects" of Christianity while his armies plunged toward disaster on the Russian front...
...Hitler? Yes, there are asymmetries in Keegan's battle plan. Though Hitler was indeed the German supreme commander in World War II, he is the only civilian political leader in this quartet. He is also the only loser. If we study Hitler, why not Napoleon instead of Wellington? Conversely, the modern analogue to Wellington is not Hitler but Dwight Eisenhower. But Keegan is following a somewhat unorthodox method, not deriving a theory from his examples but choosing his examples to illustrate a thesis...
About each of his four characters, Keegan poses a fundamental question: Did he believe that it was necessary for a commander to fight at the head of his soldiers? Keegan's answers: Alexander always, Wellington often, Grant no more % than necessary, Hitler never. Keegan attributes this chronological evolution to the continuing development of longer-range weapons, which made a general's presence on or near the battlefield increasingly perilous. At the same time, technology also provided the telegraph, telephone and radio, making possible the commander's separation from his troops. This trend reached its culmination in World War I, when...
John Boorman's family -- here called the Rohans -- waged and, from a semidetached house in suburban London, waited out the war against Hitler. Dad (David Hayman) joined the army. Mum (Sarah Miles) stayed home with the three children. The teenage daughter (Sammi Davis) discovered the romance of sex under fire. Her preschool sister (Geraldine Muir) held on to any available hand. And Bill (Sebastian Rice Edwards), Boorman's seven-year-old surrogate, was thrilled to pieces by the explosive newness of it all. A bombed-out house with all its booty! A Luftwaffe pilot parachuting into the neighborhood! If these...