Sentence examples for narrative of the second from inspiring English sources

Unsurprisingly, given the binary good vs evil narrative of the second world war, "what if?" stories based on the period are legion.

The famine designed by Stalin was followed by one invented by Hitler: the single most traumatic and best remembered narrative of the Second World War in Russia comes from the Siege of Leningrad, during which hundreds of thousands died of starvation.

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes Harperr Press £25) Richard Holmes calls this book a "relay race of scientific stories" that link together to explore the larger historical narrative of the second scientific revolution.

Some works, like the few remaining William Walker pieces, are important to maintain, not only for their impact on contemporary viewers, but because they carry an important role in conveying the narrative of the second city's mural movement.

They were goals that fitted the narrative of the first half.

In many ways, the material facts of the Leningrad blockade complement Dunmore's style of writing: the emotional trajectories of her characters fall neatly within her narrative of the first year of the siege.

Wade Davis's "Into the Silence" is a brilliantly thorough narrative of the first attempts to conquer Everest, starting with the climbers who had fought in the First World War and climaxing with the disappearance of Mallory in 1924.

Andrew Carnegie, whose personal history was the defining self-made-man narrative of the nineteenth century, insisted that there was an advantage to being "cradled, nursed and reared in the stimulating school of poverty".

This moves it to a colonial phase, tracing the trajectory of Catherine's relationship to the son of a nawab and other matters, which actually holds more urgency than the narrative of the first half.

Nobody then could have imagined his reincarnation in Blackadder The "official" narrative of the first world war – that it had been a war worth fighting, worth "the sacrifice" – began to crumble soon after and can never now be resurrected.

That chronology, in fact, underpins the contest between those like Mr. Rostock who regard Prora primarily as a narrative of the Third Reich and those like Mr. Wolter, the former construction soldier, who argued that since the Nazis never made use of it, "above all, Prora is a story of East Germany".