Sentence examples for scenes of wartime from inspiring English sources

The judges praised its "scenes of wartime tension, the smell of espionage and the consequences of deceitful lives, all written with effortless clarity".

Instead, he has turned from bohemian 1990s Paris to the trenches of the first world war for Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles, abandoning safe, feel-good territory for scenes of wartime brutality and a plot which focuses on the fate of five soldiers condemned to death for deliberately mutilating themselves to escape the horror of the trenches.

Anatahan was never the scene of wartime fighting, but in Jun.

It's set in the near future, or perhaps – if the teenagers' argot is a barometer – in an alternative present, a post-apocalyptic London where frozen bodies lie piled on icy streets in front of looted and burnt-out buildings in scenes reminiscent of wartime Leningrad in Helen Dunmore's The Siege.

In all, he created more than 900 maps and scenes of his wartime experiences, which were acquired by the Virginia Historical Society in the 1990s and constitute one of the most important collections of the soldier's experience in the war.

Told in flashbacks, the parallel story of their forgotten war begins in a trench in 1942, develops in harrowingly beautiful scenes of harsh wartime suffering and ends in 1945 with mass executions in Oslo.

At one point, Kerry Sanders, a correspondent for NBC, was reporting while crouching for his own safety, in a scene evocative of wartime coverage from the Middle East.

"Le Marais, Paris," taken by Inge Morath in 1957, with a shopkeeper looking anxiously out the door while a man on a bicycle rides past, looks as if it were a scene out of wartime Paris.

The 1940s fashions in general are eminently good-looking, making street scenes a thing of wartime beauty.

"The island was sort of like Alcatraz," said a JW Marriott staffer when I asked about Phu Quoc Prison, which operated under US forces between 1967 and 1975 and was the scene of much wartime torture.

It has several sex scenes and a moment of wartime brutality.