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Both hail from families that effectively fought against each other during the Second World War.
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Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
The 1930s brought the Great Depression, and the 1940s the Second World War; neither proved boom times for the car industry.
—Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2025
The pair met during the Second World War, when both were on the nursing staff at a military hospital, and resolved to stay in the Alps together once the war was over.
—John Birdsall, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
This exchange happens near the beginning of The Stone Door, Leonora Carrington’s metaphysical novel of the Second World War, in a dream of her nameless narrator.
—Celia Bell
july 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
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Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
The 1930s brought the Great Depression, and the 1940s the Second World War; neither proved boom times for the car industry.
—Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2025
The pair met during the Second World War, when both were on the nursing staff at a military hospital, and resolved to stay in the Alps together once the war was over.
—John Birdsall, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
This exchange happens near the beginning of The Stone Door, Leonora Carrington’s metaphysical novel of the Second World War, in a dream of her nameless narrator.
—Celia Bell
july 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
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“Second World War.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Second%20World%20War. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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