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Readers after the Second World War recognized how Kafka had foreseen the cold, legalized violence that defined the 20th century.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
The subsequent brief spike represents the boomers born just after the Second World War.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
The chat in question unfolded as Putin and Xi walked alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in the Chinese capital.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
This new translation of Grave of the Fireflies is being published to commemorate, in September 2025, eighty years since the end of the Second World War, the war that was supposed to end all wars.
—Ginny Tapley Takemori
september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
The subsequent brief spike represents the boomers born just after the Second World War.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
The chat in question unfolded as Putin and Xi walked alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in the Chinese capital.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
This new translation of Grave of the Fireflies is being published to commemorate, in September 2025, eighty years since the end of the Second World War, the war that was supposed to end all wars.
—Ginny Tapley Takemori
september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Second World War.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Second%20World%20War. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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