... at age seven, but ended up studying science at Brasenose College, Oxford. During World War II he served in the Royal Navy as commander of a rocket ship. During the war, he experienced firsthand man's inner savagery. After the war, he was left to ponder the hideous atrocities committed by Nazi Germany. Eventually, the war destroyed his faith in humanity itself. ("William Golding (1911-1993), http://www ... book The Lord of the Flies come largely from the Cold War era. For nearly 50 years after World War II, the U.S.S.R. and the United States engaged in a race for arms supremacy. These ye...

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