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Its conceit is a neat one for a film — and totally believable for a family history from anarchic Eastern Europe after the Second World War.
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Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
Years ago, John McPhee wrote about a Japanese incendiary balloon that, during the Second World War, floated across the Pacific and struck an electrical cable serving a top-secret nuclear site; a reactor that enriched plutonium for the atomic bomb bound for Nagasaki was temporarily disabled.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
The Second World War, the many ways the war effort was impacted by fashion, the many contributions by women which remain largely forgotten, and the many stories of heroic resistance against fascism, are this writer’s favorite.
—Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
The Second World War ended eight decades ago this summer, but its specter looms large today.
—Amy Delaura, The Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2025
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Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
Years ago, John McPhee wrote about a Japanese incendiary balloon that, during the Second World War, floated across the Pacific and struck an electrical cable serving a top-secret nuclear site; a reactor that enriched plutonium for the atomic bomb bound for Nagasaki was temporarily disabled.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
The Second World War, the many ways the war effort was impacted by fashion, the many contributions by women which remain largely forgotten, and the many stories of heroic resistance against fascism, are this writer’s favorite.
—Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
The Second World War ended eight decades ago this summer, but its specter looms large today.
—Amy Delaura, The Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2025
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