Transcript World War II

Lesson 11—The Pen of My Aunt
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World War II
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I. Author
Life
Works
Comments
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Background Information
II. World War II
Two Blocs
France Occupied
Ending
German Occupation of France
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Author—Life
Josephine Tey
Elizabeth Mackintosh (1896—1952),
one of the best-known and best-loved of
all crime writers, wrote mysteries under
the pen names of Gordon Daviot and
Josephine Tey.
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Author—Life
As a Scottish writer and dramatist, she wrote 8
mystery novels, 6 of which feature Inspector Alan
Grant of Scotland Yard.
Much of the novels’ appeal comes from Tey's loving
portrayal of traditional English country living, and
life on a horse-breeding farm. By a fascinating
character study, her novels are powerful
combination and make for fascinating plots.
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Author—Life
born in Inverness, Scotland in 1896
attended the Royal Academy and later the
Anstley Physical Training College in Birmingham,
England, after which she taught physical
education
in 1926 she began writing short stories, novels,
and a successful play, Richard of Bordeaux,
under the Daviot pseudonym
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Author—Life
successful publication of her first detective novel
The Man in the Queue (1929), featuring her
Scotland Yard detective Alan Grant
Her initial crime novel under the pseudonym
Josephine Tey, A Shilling for Candles, was
published in 1936.
died in London in 1952, leaving her entire estate to
the National Trust
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Author—Works
Six Novels in the Alan Grant Mysteries by Tey
1. The Man in the Queue (1929)
2. A Shilling for Candles (1936)
3. The Franchise Affair (1948)
4. To Love and Be Wise (1950)
5. The Daughter of Time (1951)
6. The Singing Sands (1952)
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The Franchise Affair
The Daughter of
Time—for which she
is still best
remembered—in his
Crime & Mystery:
The 100 Best Books.
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Author—Works
The Franchise
Affair
(The third book
in the Alan Grant
series)
(1948)
The Man in the Queue
(The first book in the
Alan Grant series) (1929)
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A Shilling for Candles
(The second book in the
Alan Grant series) (1936)
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The Daughter of Time (The fifth
book in the Alan Grant series) (1951)
The Singing
Sands
(The sixth book in
the Alan Grant
series) (1952)
To
Love
and
Be Wise
(The fourth book in
the Alan Grant series) (1950)
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Author—Works
Novels
More Pictures
Kif: An Unvarnished History (1929)
The Expensive Halo (1931)
The Privateer (1952)
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Tey's first book An Unvarnished
History, a novel originally
published under the pseudonym
of Gordon Daviot in 1929. It is a
sad story of a young man's
downward path in the hard years
in England after WWI.
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Author—Works
Crime Novels By Josephine Tey
Miss Pym Disposes (1946)
Brat Farrar (1949)
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Author—Comments
Robert Barnard remarks, “Tey's enduring fame rests on
the love with which her readers regard her books.”
Unlike the usual writers of puzzle-plots she was not
content with formula and managed to tell different sorts
of stories in different ways. In doing so she often
disregarded the conventions of the whodunit, producing
books that Barnard describes as resting in the
hinterlands between the crime novel and the "novel
proper." "They all have crime at their heart," he notes,
"but they are as far as possible from the 'body in the
library' formula."
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Author—Comments
The mystery elements are understated, which makes
Brat Farrar one of those "hinterland" novels that defies
the conventions of the well-made detective story. Tey also
plays with the twinning of the two brothers Simon and
Patrick, so alike and yet so different. By tipping her hand
about Patrick's identity at the novel's opening Tey reduces
the traditional whodunit element, but by reversing the
character types she increases the novel's
impact.
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II.
World War II
World War II (the Second World War) was a global
conflict that began on July 7, 1937 in Asia and
September 1, 1939 in Europe and lasted until 1945,
involving the majority of the world's countries and
every inhabited continent.
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World War II
It was the most extensive and expensive armed
conflict in the history of the World. Attributed in
varying degrees to the Treaty of Versailles, the Great
Depression, nationalism, and militarism, the causes
of the war are a matter of debate.
Others argue that the two world wars are one conflict
separated only by a "ceasefire".
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World War II
Fighting occurred across the Atlantic Ocean, in
Western and Eastern Europe, in the Mediterranean Sea,
Africa, the Middle East, in the Pacific and South East
Asia, and it continued in China.
In Europe, the war ended with the surrender of
Germany on May 8, 1945 (V-E and Victory Days), but
continued in Asia until Japan surrendered on August
15, 1945 (V-J Day).
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II.
World War II
Approximately 57 million people died as a result of
the war, including acts of genocide such as the
Holocaust, the Rape of Nanking, and General Ishii
Shiro's Unit 731 experiments in Pingfan. As a case of
total war, it involved the "home front" and bombing
of civilians to a new degree. Atomic weapons, jet
aircraft, and RADAR were only a few of many wartime inventions.
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II. World War II—Two Blocs
The belligerents of the Second World War are usually
considered to belong to either of the two blocs: the
Axis and the Allies.
The Axis Powers consisted primarily of Germany, Italy,
and Japan, which split the Earth into three spheres of
influence under the Tripartite Pact of 1940.
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II. World War II—Two Blocs
Among the Allied powers, the "Big Three" were the
United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United
States. The independent dominions and colonies of
the British Empire, Brazil, Canada, France, etc. were
also counted among the Allies.
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II. World War II—Two Blocs
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II. World War II—France Occupied
France was invaded on May 10, 1940 ending the
Phony War and beginning the Battle of France.
In the first phase of the invasion, German bypassed
the Maginot Line and split the Allies into two by
driving to the English Channel.
Then German forces invaded France dominious, and
created the Vichy France puppet government.
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II. World War II—France Occupied
Allied forces stationed in Italy invaded the French
Riviera on August 15 and linked up with forces from
Normandy. On August 25, the Allies captured Paris.
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II. World War II—Ending
The end of the war was also seen as the end of
Britain's position as a global superpower and the
emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union
as the dominant powers in the world. Friction had
been building up between the two before the end of
the war, and, with the collapse of the Nazi Germany,
relations spiraled downward. The Cold War had
begun.
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II. World War II—German
Occupation of France
France
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II. World War II—German
Occupation of France
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II. World War II—German
Occupation of France
Chateau de Courance
Courance, 61 km south of Paris, is described as ‘one of
the lovliest gardens in France’. Its good design sense
used to prevail all over European comfortable domestic
gardens. In the Second World War, it was occupied by
the Germans from 1947 to 1954.
The park underwent further restoration after 1948.
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II. World War II—German
Occupation of France
The original memorial (photo on the right) depicted a
digger about to bayonet a German eagle in memory
of the recapture of the village from the Germans in
“the finest single feat of the war” described by a
British general in the First World War .
However, during their occupation of France in the
Second World War, it was destroyed by German
soldiers.
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II. World War II—German
Occupation of France
After the Second World War, the villagers rebuilt this
striking memorial. It depicts a 2.5m digger in battle
dress and stands in the village of Mont St. Quentin.
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