"Butter Battle Book"", written in 1984, was a clear political statement about the danger and implications of the Cold War. The book's premise is about the war that is fuelled by the different viewpoints of how one should butter their bread. The Yooks and Zooks constantly try to build better weaponry to scare the enemy, which is a clear correlation to the arms race. The book's message is that the arms race could be avoided if the trivial misunderstanding of ""which side of bread is to be buttered,"" could just be let go, which would lead to each side not"
"position regarding the arms race. An article in the July 27, 1984 issue of the conservative magazine ""National Review"" found it plausible that the book was not more popular because of Seuss' promotion of a theme of ""moral equivalence"", where the difference between the Soviet Union and the United States was equivalent to a disagreement over the proper side on which to butter bread. On the other hand, Roger S. Clark, a professor at Rutgers University School of Law, argued in an article in the ""New York Law School Law Review"" that """"The Butter Battle Book"" ... captures the arms"
"Dr. Seuss Goes to War Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel is a 1999 book written by Richard H. Minear, containing Dr. Seuss's political cartoons created during World War II. Creating his cartoons for the liberal New York magazine ""PM"", Seuss denounced Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and was highly critical of non-interventionists (""isolationists""), most notably Charles Lindbergh, who opposed US entry into the war. One cartoon depicted all Japanese Americans as latent traitors or fifth-columnists, while at the same time other cartoons deplored the racism at home against Jews and"
"Bakshi said of the work, ""It's the most proud I've been of a picture since ""Coonskin""—the last real thing I did with total integrity."" As a result of the film, Bakshi received an offer to adapt Dr. Seuss's ""The Butter Battle Book"" for TNT. Ted Geisel had never been satisfied with the previous screen versions of his Dr. Seuss work. Bakshi wanted to produce an entirely faithful adaptation, and Geisel—who agreed to storyboard the special himself—was pleased with the final product. Bakshi next directed the pilot ""Hound Town"" for NBC; he described the result as ""an embarrassing piece of shit""."
"advantage, making it the plain universal language we needed to hear."" The book led to a number of museum exhibitions about Seuss's political work. Dr. Seuss Goes to War Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel is a 1999 book written by Richard H. Minear, containing Dr. Seuss's political cartoons created during World War II. Creating his cartoons for the liberal New York magazine ""PM"", Seuss denounced Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and was highly critical of non-interventionists (""isolationists""), most notably Charles Lindbergh, who opposed US entry into the war. One cartoon"
"satirical work, with its depiction of a deadly war based on a senseless conflict over something as trivial as a breakfast food. The concept of a war based on toast is similar to the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu in Jonathan Swift's ""Gulliver's Travels"", which was nominally based on an argument over the correct end to crack an egg once soft-boiled. The Yooks and Zooks live on opposite sides of a long curving wall. The narrator of the story is a Yook child whose grandfather takes him to the wall, explaining he is a retired soldier. The Yooks wear blue"
"The Battle of Life The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five ""Christmas Books"", coming after ""The Cricket on the Hearth"" and followed by ""The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain"". The setting is an English village that stands on the site of an historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title. ""Battle"" is the only one of the five Christmas Books that has no supernatural or explicitly religious elements. (One scene takes"
"The Best Butter The Best Butter () is a 1952 novel by the French writer Jean Dutourd. It was published in the United Kingdom as The Milky Way. It tells the story of a Paris dairy shop during the German occupation, and how the politically uninterested manager adapts to the situation and collaborates whenever he finds it favorable. The novel satirizes the French attitude toward the occupation. It received the Prix Interallié. It became a bestseller in France and sold more than two million copies. A film adaptation for TF1 directed by Édouard Molinaro was released in 1981. The book"
"are strewn as grains of wheat, upon flaming shattered hamlets and stricken firesides. As He listens to the screaming of the shells, the crashing of monstrous guns, all the ghastly symphony of the reddest war mankind has ever known, His heart must recognize the bitter truth in the statement of one of the world's foremost educators— That in nineteen centuries Civilization has failed to accept honestly the teachings of Jesus Christ. This is an allegorical story of a war that has laughed at the world's flaunting boast of a higher progress. It does not concern itself as to which side"
"war erupted between the two great nations. But all is not what it seems, and in the end, it may be a group of ordinary soldiers from both sides that will uncover the truth. Solstice Butterfly delves into the story from the standpoint of these ordinary soldiers. Those who are taken for granted from the grand scheme of things and yet make a world of difference. It is they, who see the true meaning of war on a personal level… Solstice Butterfly was one of the first four titles to be published on Culture Crash Comics. It earned a lot"
"about a direct war it was about a war that took place between coal miners and large coal companies that often took advantage of those miners. Specifically, after WWII, Dillon comes back to find a completely different world because of the demand that is placed on the coal miner and the little respect that they are granted. A large portion of the book depicts their fight to gain their peace: their rights, their pay and their jobs. Every character of the book is involved in the war for peace because they all live in the coal town and are being"
"stories dealing with the Franco-Prussian war. The plot has often been adapted, in whole or in part, for films and other media: Boule de Suif ""Boule de Suif"" (translated variously as ""Dumpling"", ""Butterball"", ""Ball of Fat"", or ""Ball of Lard"") is a famous short story by the late 19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant first published on 15/16 April 1880. It is arguably his most famous short story and is the title story for his collection on the Franco-Prussian War, titled Boule de Suif et Autres Contes de la Guerre (""Dumpling and Other Stories of the War""). The story is"
"calling it ""a subversively buzz-worthy online comic."" Shooting War Shooting War is a future history webcomic and graphic novel by writer Anthony Lappé and artist Dan Goldman. Originally published in 2006, the story is set in 2011 and features John McCain as the President of the United States. It tells the story of a video-blogger named Jimmy Burns. Burns films a terrorist suicide bombing attack on a Starbucks in Brooklyn and becomes an overnight media star. Shortly afterward, he is sent to cover the still-raging war in Iraq for the fictional Global News Network. ""Shooting War"" originated on SMITH Magazine,"
"in the South Pacific and drowns. Time magazine's reviewer wrote of the book, ""His hair-raising little tour de force is the more effective for being so quietly, matter-of-factly written."" His second novel, ""Spring Offensive"", was an anti-war piece that depicted the sufferings of an American serving in the British Army who becomes trapped between lines on the day of the first German assault on the Maginot Line. At the time of its publication, the Phony War was still going on along the French-German border, but within weeks the German ""Blitzkrieg"" attack on France and the Low Countries took place and"
"""The Butter Battle Book"". Geisel also had a career in making political cartoons. Theodor Geisel drew over 400 cartoons for the New York newspaper ""PM"". This was during the two years that he was the chief editorial cartoonist (1941-1943). Many of these cartoons were directed towards the war, Adolf Hitler, and Japan. Over 200 of these cartoons have been republished, most of which hadn't been published anywhere since their original debut in ""PM."" In 1929, he illustrated a cartoon with racist elements for Judge magazine. The four-panel cartoon was entitled, ""Cross-Section of The World's Most Prosperous Department Store,"" and in"
"problems or state problems, like Napoleon with wars and we brought in Beethoven with his inside war with fighting against these diseases making him deaf, and the Bathory Countess also starting to get mad and stuff like this. We gathered a lot of different topics, and we saw that the red line was a war, whether it was an outside physical war, or it’s someone fighting against himself, or inner war. So we called it like this. And it was different periods of times, so it was not representing one period especially, but several."" Announcement for the official release of"
"as the ""Seven Days of Fire"", which results in the Earth's surface becoming polluted and the seas turning poisonous. William W. Johnstone wrote a series of books between 1983 and 2003 (35 books all containing the word ""Ashes"" in the title) about the aftermath of worldwide nuclear and biological war. David Brin's novel ""The Postman"" (1985) takes place in an America where some are trying to rebuild civilization after the ""Doomwar"". It was adapted into the film ""The Postman"" (1997). Paul Brians' """" (1987) is a study that examines atomic war in short stories, novels, and films between 1895 and"
"a bucket after which The Once-ler hoisted up the bucket with all those things, collected them, brought down a speaker and told the story of ""The Lorax"". After planting a new Truffula Tree, marching music sounded, indicating a butter battle which represents ""The Butter Battle Book"". The finale segment of the film sees Kathy and the Cat in the Hat visit the library where they sing ""Oh, the Places You'll Go!"", later they were transported back to Dr. Seuss' house where Kathy's adventure ended. The film features many of Dr. Seuss's stories, though they are edits of older adaptations, while"
"The Pushcart War The Pushcart War is a popular children's novel by the American writer Jean Merrill, illustrated by Ronni Solbert and published by W. R. Scott in 1964. It is Merrill's best known work. The story is written in the style of a historical report from the future, looking back at the earlier events of a ""war"" on the streets of New York City between trucking companies and pushcart owners who use pea shooters as weapons to disrupt the trucks. Merrill said the idea for the novel brewed in her for several years while she lived in Greenwich Village."
"The ""New York Times Book Review"" declared, ""Mr. Cormier is almost unique in his powerful integration of the personal, political and moral"" and ""The Australian"" wrote that young readers ""recognised his vision as authentic and admired his willingness to tell things as they are"". However, the book has been banned from many schools and it was one of the most challenged books of 2006, for its sexual content, strong language, and violence. Reviewers compared the book to ""A Separate Peace"" and ""Lord of the Flies"". ""The Chocolate War"" inspired the 1988 film of the same name, directed by Keith Gordon."
"He was not against writing about issues, however; he said that ""there's an inherent moral in any story"", and he remarked that he was ""subversive as hell."" Many of Geisel's books express his views on a remarkable variety of social and political issues: ""The Lorax"" (1971), about environmentalism and anti-consumerism; ""The Sneetches"" (1961), about racial equality; ""The Butter Battle Book"" (1984), about the arms race; ""Yertle the Turtle"" (1958), about Adolf Hitler and anti-authoritarianism; ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"" (1957), criticizing the materialism and consumerism of the Christmas season; and ""Horton Hears a Who!"" (1954), about anti-isolationism and internationalism. Geisel"
"The Whirlwind War, War Against War and the Fast Train to Paradise and Drinking the Poisoned Chalice deal with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the battles of the Iran-Iraq of the 1980s including the Tanker War, Iran's use of human wave tactics and Saddam's use of chemical weapons against Iran, the United States' and West's roles in the conflict and the conclusion of the war. 9. Sentenced to Suffer Death is Fisk's account of his father, Bill Fisk, during his service in the British military in World War I and his difficult decision to refuse to take part as a member of"
"American War (novel) American War is the first novel by Canadian-Egyptian journalist Omar El Akkad. It is set in a near-future United States of America ravaged by climate change in which a second Civil War has broken out over the use of fossil fuels. The story is told by Benjamin Chestnut about his aunt Sarat, and is told through narrative chapters interspersed with fictional primary documents collected by the narrator. In 2074, after the passage of a bill that bans the use of fossil fuels anywhere in the United States of America, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas secede"
"reader's knowledge of the Big Fact (the Allied victory), which at times makes his approach to the battle seem wilfully cynical. Piece of Cake (novel) Piece of Cake is a 1983 novel by Derek Robinson which follows a fictional Royal Air Force fighter squadron through the first year of World War II, and the Battle of Britain. It was later made into a television series. Although a work of fiction, the novel purports to be as historically accurate as possible. Notable themes are the development of aerial warfare tactics, the Hawker Hurricane fighter, the British class system within its military,"
"Shooting War Shooting War is a future history webcomic and graphic novel by writer Anthony Lappé and artist Dan Goldman. Originally published in 2006, the story is set in 2011 and features John McCain as the President of the United States. It tells the story of a video-blogger named Jimmy Burns. Burns films a terrorist suicide bombing attack on a Starbucks in Brooklyn and becomes an overnight media star. Shortly afterward, he is sent to cover the still-raging war in Iraq for the fictional Global News Network. ""Shooting War"" originated on SMITH Magazine, a web magazine about storytelling in all"
"war, more particularly the Siege of Paris during the winter of 1870-71. Key elements of the Siege, including the hot-air balloons used for reconnaissance and messages, the tunnels beneath the city, the starvation and the cold, combine to render a vivid impression of war-time Paris before its surrender. The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett is a novel which follows the fortunes of two sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines. The latter runs away to make a disastrous marriage in France, where after being abandoned by her husband, she lives through the siege of Paris and the Commune. ""Elusive Liberty"" is"
"that the ""fuel"" for the war was the ""printed advice patriotic northerners sought and received during the American Civil War"". ""Brandeis Magazine"" said that the book ""gauge[s] ordinary people's fears, hopes and preoccupations during the war. A fascinating look at what the folks back home were really talking about, from cheaply made Union uniforms, to draft dodgers, to the ""appropriateness"" of black regiments."" He edited the ""Civil War Chronicle"", which provides a chronological account of the political and military events of the war, including writings of Abraham Lincoln, and he co-edited with Gary Gallagher ""Lens of War"", a book of"
"Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain () is a Second World War military history book by English author Len Deighton. First published in 1977, ""Fighter"" was Deighton's first history book, he having made his name as a writer of spy fiction. Deighton was encouraged to write the book by his friend, the British historian A.J.P. Taylor, who wrote the introduction to ""Fighter"". ""Fighter"" covers the traditional period of the Battle of Britain and the build-up to it, describing the war in the air as much from the German"
"An Ice-Cream War An Ice-Cream War (1982) is a darkly comic war novel by Scottish author William Boyd, which was nominated for a Booker Prize in the year of its publication. The title is derived from a quotation in a letter (included in British editions of the book but not the American ones) ""Lt Col Stordy says that the war here will only last two months. It is far too hot for sustained fighting, he says, we will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!"" The story focuses on the East African Campaign fought between British and German forces during"
"any quantity they desired. The asterisk (*) denotes fictional characters The Britannia's Fist Trilogy The Britannia's Fist Trilogy is an alternate history series by Peter G. Tsouras about an Anglo-French intervention into the American Civil War in 1863 on the Confederate side as well as a Russian intervention on the Union side and the global repercussions of such a conflict. The first and second volumes, and , were released relatively close together in 2008 and 2010 respectively. The final volume, , was released in 2015 and does not feature the extensive casualty reports seen in the first two novels. The"
"The Chocolate War The Chocolate War is a young adult novel by American author Robert Cormier. First published in 1974, it was adapted into a film in 1988. Although it received mixed reviews at the time of its publication, some reviewers have argued it is one of the best young adult novels of all time. Set at a fictional Catholic high school, the story depicts a secret student organization's manipulation of the student body, which descends into cruel and ugly mob mentality against a lone, non-conforming student. Because of the novel's language, the concept of a high school secret society"
"Sun and the king of the Moon over the right to colonise the Morning Star. It is the earliest known work of fiction to address the concept. The first ""future war"" story was George T. Chesney's ""The Battle of Dorking,"" a story about a British defeat after a German invasion of Britain, published in 1871 in ""Blackwood's Magazine"". Many such stories were written prior to the outbreak of World War I. George Griffith's ""The Angel of the Revolution"" (1892) featured self-styled ""Terrorists"" armed with then-nonexistent arms and armour such as airships, submarines, and high explosives. The inclusion of yet-nonexistent technology"
"the war as a heroic fulfillment of the American Revolution's egalitarian promise. Later in his career, Lippard seemed to grow more ambivalent about the war, and in 1851 he published a sketch called ""A Sequel to the Legends of Mexico"" in which he expressed a concern that the way he depicted the conflict in his novels might ""lead young hearts into an appetite for blood-shedding"". Many of his stories dealt with the early leaders of the United States, including George Washington and Benedict Arnold. Lippard particularly admired Washington and devoted more pages to him than any other writer of fiction"