... the flight over, the narrator got stuck in Boston due to delays. In a hotel in Boston, he felt that someone had played with all the clocks. With every twitch of a clock, it seemed that years passed. That night, he read a book by Erika Ostrovsky. The book, Céline and His Vision, is a story of a French soldier whose skull gets cracked during ... the brotherhood between Russians and Americans. Air raid sirens sound, and everyone takes cover in a meat locker. The firebombing will not occur until tomorrow night; these sirens are only a false alarm. Billy dozes, and then leaps in time to an ...

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• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

... Chiefs of Staff unanimously voted for a reprisal strike on Germany. That night the RAF made a raid on the Berlin suburb of Ruhleben. Although the raid did little damage it did alarm the populace and enraged Hitler. Churchill immediately gave instructions that the RAF would continue hitting Berlin until the Germans reacted. After four more raids on Berlin, Hitler was sufficiently outraged ... raid cost the Germans 53 planes - most of them fighters. Although no one knew it at the time, the British had just won the Battle of Britain. In round-the-clock raids over the next seven days, 2000 ...

• Word Count: 2785
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School