A Future Arrived (54 page)

    
(Chorus)

Source: Al Pianadosi and Alfred Bryan, “I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier,” 1915. Recording: Edison Collection, Library of Congress.

Poster for the movie
All Quiet on the Western Front (
1930
),
featuring star Lew Ayres
.

World War II propaganda poster for the United States.

The line “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few” is from a wartime speech made by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 20, 1940. This line referred to the ongoing efforts of the Royal Air Force pilots who were fighting the Battle of Britain, the pivotal air battle with the German Luftwaffe. Britain expected a German invasion.

The RAF Supermarine Spitfire, used extensively during the Battle of Britain.

Shots from a Supermarine Spitfire Mark I hitting a Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111
(
left
)
on its starboard quarter.

The Extraordinary Seaman

The Dead in Guanajuato

Flickers

The Passing Bells

Circles of Time

Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa
Cover image © by Richard Jenkins

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