War Game: The acclaimed illustrated children’s picture book about World War I

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BBC film censored? (Parliamentary question asked in the House of Commons by William Hamilton MP about the TV film 'The War Game')". The National Archives (CAB 21/5808). 2 December 1965.

Kuten kaikki historiankirjansa tarkkaan lukeneet tietävät, syntyi länsirintamalla epävirallinen aselepo ensimmäisenä sotajouluna 1914. Saksalaiset ja englantilaiset nousivat juoksuhaudoistaan, tapasivat toisiaan ei-kenenkään maalla, vaihtoivat lahjoja ja pelasivat keskenään jalkapalloa. Ja juuri tähän hetkeen kirjan tapahtumat sijoittuvat. Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland, and author of Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination

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For centuries, both mathematical and military thinkers have used game-like scenarios to test their visions of mastering a complex world through symbolic operations. By the end of World War I, mathematical and military discourse in Germany simultaneously discovered the game as a productive concept. Mathematics and military strategy converged in World War II when mathematicians designed fields of operation. In this book, Philipp von Hilgers examines the theory and practice of war games through history, from the medieval game boards, captured on parchment, to the paper map exercises of the Third Reich. Von Hilgers considers how and why war games came to exist: why mathematical and military thinkers created simulations of one of the most unpredictable human activities on earth. Interwoven among scenes of "reality" were stylized interviews with a series of "establishment figures" – an Anglican Bishop, a nuclear strategist, etc. The outrageous statements by some of these people (including the Bishop) – in favour of nuclear weapons, even nuclear war – were actually based on genuine quotations. Other interviews with a doctor, a psychiatrist, etc. were more sober, and gave details of the effects of nuclear weapons on the human body and mind. In this film I was interested in breaking the illusion of media-produced "reality". My question was – "Where is 'reality'? ... in the madness of statements by these artificially-lit establishment figures quoting the official doctrine of the day, or in the madness of the staged and fictional scenes from the rest of my film, which presented the consequences of their utterances? Surullisen ja pasifistisen tarinan päähenkilö on jalkapalloa rakastava nuorukainen nimeltä Will. Yleisen mielipiteen innoittamana hän värväytyy ystävineen armeijaan ja lähetetään länsirintamalle taistelemaan saksalaisia vastaan. Sota ei olekaan aivan sellaista kuin pojat ovat etukäteen sen ajatelleet olevan, eikä se ole myöskään ohi jouluun mennessä.

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The main characters are named after and based on Foreman's uncles who were killed in the war at ages 18 to 24. [5] He was born about twenty years later in 1938. War Game won the 1993 Nestlé Children's Book Prize in ages category 6–8 years and overall. Foreman was a commended runner up for the annual Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the best children's book illustration by a British subject. [2] [a] Up front I'll point out that I've loved the movie of this story since I was a kid (not to mention having a huge crush on Ally Sheedy) and, in all honesty, that probably impacted my enjoyment of this book in a way that wouldn't apply to someone who's never seen it.

One day David stumbles on a program once created by British scientist Stephen Falken and given the name Joshua after Falken's dead son. He starts playing something from the game's list, a game which would have bad repercussions over the next two days: global thermonuclear war. In 2002 the book was adapted as a short animated film by the same name by the British animation company Illuminated Films. [3] Summary [ edit ]The War Game itself finally saw television broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC2 on 31 July 1985, as part of a special season of programming entitled After the Bomb (which had been Watkins's original working title for The War Game). [12] After the Bomb commemorated the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [13] The broadcast was preceded by an introduction from Ludovic Kennedy. [14] Sean O'Sullivan, "No Such Thing as Society: Television and the Apocalypse" in Lester D. Friedman Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism, p,224 Will, Freddie, Billy, and Lacey are our young friends eager for "the grand adventure" of old-fashioned war. The story follows them through training in England, arrival in France and the trenches, the famous 1914 Christmas truce, and the Battle of the Somme. At key points in the story, the author includes historical information on particular events of the war. [4] Certain presidents named Ron and Don are not big fans of the book or film. They probably consider the message motivated by a political agenda destructive to America's commitment to values, blah blah blah. Human development can only improve so fast. Joshua plays the game on David's computer....and somehow transfers it to the computer at Norad in Washington DC! Not so good morning, Dave!!!