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The country’s most famous historical figure is Taras Shevchenko ... unadorned style of writing was a way to avoid romanticizing the war. The poems have struck a chord with Ukrainians.

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Wilfred Owen wrote poems about the horrors of war from his personal experience whilst serving in the British Army in France during World War One. He demonstrated his love of writing from an early age, ...

Miscommunication has often led to disaster. Take the famous Charge of the Light Brigade, for example. In 1854 during the Crimean War, a brigade of British horsemen was ordered to attack Russian ...

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Kipnis was a leading pioneer of the Diaspora-negating Zionist narrative and one of its most active proponents, and much of his work was purposely designed to replace Diasporan poems, stories, narrativ ...

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