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The 483 pages that link to World War II, each with the reason it gives.

• Johnny KitagawaRelated: Kitagawa's childhood and later career unfolded against Japan's wartime and postwar transformations.

• Joseph E. MurrayRelated: Murray treated burn victims during the war, prompting early investigations of skin grafting and rejection.

• Jules SupervielleRelated: Supervielle lived in exile in Uruguay during the war, a period that shaped his later writing.

• JumpsuitRelated: Wartime industrial labor brought women’s work clothing, including practical one-piece outfits, into public view.

• Junji KinoshitaRelated: Kinoshita’s early career and mature writing unfolded across wartime and postwar Japan.

• Kathleen WinsorRelated: The novel’s 1944 publication placed its release amid wartime America.

• Kazimierz DąbrowskiRelated: War and political repression formed part of the historical context of Dąbrowski’s work in Poland.

• Leon UrisRelated: Uris served in the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific during the war.

• Louis MacNeiceRelated: The war altered MacNeice’s work and brought his poetic and broadcasting skills into wartime public life.

• Marie ClaireRelated: Wartime conditions interrupted the magazine’s publication in France.

• Martin AgronskyRelated: Agronsky reported from Europe during the war, establishing his reputation as a correspondent.

• Michel ThomasRelated: Thomas’s adult life was shaped by persecution and imprisonment during the war.

• Michele FerreroRelated: Postwar scarcity encouraged Ferrero's early use of locally available hazelnuts.

• Nevil ShuteRelated: Shute’s wartime service and the conflict’s civilian experience informed several novels.

• Nuclear testing at Bikini AtollRelated: The war’s end placed atomic weapons at the center of U.S. military planning.

• Paul ScottRelated: Scott served in the British Army in India and Southeast Asia during the war, an experience that informed his fiction.

• Penelope LivelyRelated: The war shaped Lively’s childhood and supplies a central historical setting in Moon Tiger.

• Père David's deerRelated: The species’ European captive populations endured wartime disruption before later expansion and transfers.

• PeyoRelated: The war disrupted Peyo’s early education and entry into animation and comics.

• Pierre SalingerRelated: Salinger’s wartime Navy service preceded his reporting and political career.

• Pointe de Pen-HirNarrower topic: The memorial at Pen-Hir places the landscape within wartime remembrance.

• Post–World War II economic expansionNarrower topic: The war's destruction and mobilization created the conditions for reconstruction and rapid growth.

• Queen Elizabeth The Queen MotherNarrower topic: The war became the defining test of her public role as queen.

• Ruth Prawer JhabvalaRelated: Her family fled Nazi Germany for Britain during the war.

• Shin'ichirō TomonagaRelated: Tomonaga developed and published key QED work amid wartime scarcity and disrupted communication.

• Sokei-anRelated: The wartime climate affected Japanese Americans and the institute during his final years.

• Tomi UngererRelated: Nazi rule and forced Germanization shaped his childhood in occupied Alsace.

• Tommy CooperRelated: Army service during the war preceded Cooper's full-time entertainment career.

• Vasily MargelovRelated: Margelov’s combat command during the war preceded his rise to senior rank.

• VegemiteRelated: Wartime restrictions on imports helped expand Vegemite’s place in Australian kitchens.

• William GoldingRelated: Golding’s wartime service and exposure to violence informed his distrust of easy claims about civilization.

• William StyronNarrower topic: The war shaped Styron's generation and supplied the setting for The Long March.

• World War IIINarrower topic: It supplies the historical precedent behind the imagined numbering of a third world war.