The Last War
''The Last War'' may refer to: * ''The Last War'' (film), known in Japan as ''Sekai Daisenso'' ("The Great World War") * '' The World Set Free'', a 1914 H.G. Wells novel, retitled in 2001 * '' Tokyo: The Last War'', a 1989 Japanese film * World War I; "the last war" was a frequently used term for World War I, especially in the World War II years. * World War II; "the last war" was likewise used to refer to the Second World War, especially in the decades immediately following it; less so today. {{DEFAULTSORT:Last War, The ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Last War (film)
is a 1961 Japanese tokusatsu science-fiction film directed by Shūe Matsubayashi. Produced and distributed by Toho, it was the Toho's second highest-grossing film in Japan that year. Plot The film begins with a narration over shots of a modern-day Tokyo, noting that 16 years have passed since the end of World War II, and Japan has Japanese economic miracle, achieved rapid recovery. Mokichi Tamura works as a driver for a press center, hoping for happiness for his family. His daughter, Saeko, is in love with a merchant, Takano, who has been at sea for a long time. When he returns, the young couple agrees to get married with the consent of Saeko's father. Meanwhile, tensions between the Federation and the Alliance (fictional stand-ins for the United States/NATO and the Soviet Union, USSR/Warsaw Pact, respectively) build, especially after an Spy ship, intelligence-gathering vessel is captured. A new Korean War breaks out across the Korean Demilitarized Zone, 38th parallel, with the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The World Set Free
''The World Set Free'' is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet seen. It had appeared first in serialised form with a different ending as ''A Prophetic Trilogy'', consisting of three books: ''A Trap to Catch the Sun'', ''The Last War in the World'' and ''The World Set Free''. Plot A frequent theme of Wells's work, as in his 1901 nonfiction book ''Anticipations'', was the history of humans' mastery of power and energy through technological advance, seen as a determinant of human progress. The novel begins: "The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. ... Always down a lengthening record, save for a set-back ever and again, he is doing more." (Many of the ideas Wells develops here found a fuller development when he wrote ''The Outline of History'' in 1918–1919.) T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Last War
''The Last War'' may refer to: * ''The Last War'' (film), known in Japan as ''Sekai Daisenso'' ("The Great World War") * '' The World Set Free'', a 1914 H.G. Wells novel, retitled in 2001 * '' Tokyo: The Last War'', a 1989 Japanese film * World War I; "the last war" was a frequently used term for World War I, especially in the World War II years. * World War II; "the last war" was likewise used to refer to the Second World War, especially in the decades immediately following it; less so today. {{DEFAULTSORT:Last War, The ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |