Sentence examples for wartime existence from inspiring English sources
Removed from the corpses of the newly dead, sometimes copied over to hide bloodstains, these writings surely describe some of the fury of combat, the essence of spontaneous courage, the craving for solace, the bizarre routines of wartime existence, the deep loneliness of life on the brink.
Over the course of its wartime existence, the wing's personnel numbered between 3,000 and 5,000, of whom more than half were ground crew.
Until 1993, the government denied the existence of its wartime brothels.
Although the existence of the wartime program had become general knowledge there, many Japanese notably right-wing nationalists continued to refute it, particularly whether the women had been forced to work in the comfort stations.
Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard: a young Brit named Jamie scavenges an existence alone in wartime Shanghai and in Japanese prison camps, coming to identify with his captors, admiring their fighter pilots and losing any sense of taking sides in the international conflict.
The notion that men not only need access to women's bodies and sexual release, but that they are entitled, particularly during wartime, was foundational to the existence of and justification for the comfort stations.
The notion that men not only need access to women's bodies for sexual release but are entitled to them, particularly during wartime, was foundational to the existence of and justification for the comfort stations.
She grew up in a modest apartment in Krakow, squeezed into 3 rudimentary rooms, surrounded by marks of wartime suffering & a daily struggle for existence.
In Political Survivors, Emma Kuby tells the riveting story of what followed his appeal, as prominent members of the wartime Resistance from throughout Western Europe united to campaign against the continued existence of inhumane internment systems around the world.
I was awed by JG Ballard's autobiography, Miracles of Life, which vividly portrays an existence marked for ever by his childhood in Shanghai and his wartime imprisonment in Lunghua camp in China.
