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.,Argentia bay,.,Argentia Bay,located in the south-eastern Newfoundland,Canada,was leased by Britain to the United States for a military base in 1941.In August 1941,Roosevelt and Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter on the warship Prince of Wales parking in the Gulf.,.,Argentia Bay is a community on the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is situated on a flat headland located along the southwest coast of Placentia Bay.,.,Placentia Bay,Placentia Bay is a body of water on the southeast coast of Newfoundland,Canada.,.,阿真舍海军基地简介,Naval Station Argentia 阿真舍海军基地位于加拿大的纽芬兰省，在圣约翰斯市的西南160公里处。1940 年12月建筑那里开始了。 由于它的重要的战略位置，阿真舍海军基地成了二战期间盟军在北大西洋中的一个关键基地，同时也是美军在二战中建立的最昂贵的基地，花费了$45,000 000。1941年8月罗斯福和丘吉尔在近海停泊的军舰上签署有关尊重各国自主权的大西洋宪章.是沿海航运的终点站.,.,阿真舍海军基地在刚建成时包括了在阿真舍港北部的个海军基地、个海军航空站和条跑道，陆军基地在港口的南部，被称之为安德鲁基地。在二战期间，盟军和美军曾使用阿真舍海军基地的海、空基地进行反潜、空中巡逻和护航的任务。,.,About the origin of Argentia Bay,Originally settled by the French in the 1630s that fishing settlement was called Petit Plaisance , meaning “Pleasant Little Place ”. The name was retained in English (Little Placentia)when the French lost control of the area following theTreaty of Utrecht in 1713.The community adopted its present name(unofficially in1895 and officially in 1901)for the presence of silver ore in the Broad Cove region of the community.,.,The name “Argentia” is Latin,meaning “Land of Silver” and was chosen Father John St. John,the parish prest at Holy Rosary Parish from September 18, 1895 to February 11,1911.The Silver Cliff Mine operated until the early 1920s but was never profitable.Through most of the 19th century,the fishery was the lifeblood of the community.,.,.,.,Background Information,War between Britain and Nazi Germany was declared on September 3, 1939 in the aftermath of Hitlers invasion of Poland . Argentia was selected in 1940 to be the location of a United States Navy base being built under the U.S.-British lend-lease program which saw US warships loaned to Britain in exchange for selected British military bases (or land for new bases) in the Western Hemisphere.,文章背景,.,Introduction of Herman Wouk,Herman Wouk is best known for his fictional accounts of World War II, including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance.,.,Wouk was a radio-comedy writer until he joined the U.S. Navy in 1942. He went on to serve aboard two destroyer-minesweepers in the Pacific theater, experience that he drew on in writing The Caine Mutiny (1951). The best-selling novel attracted widespread praise from critics and ultimately the Pulitzer Prize.,.,His ideas,Herman Wouk has a fair claim to stand among the greatest American war novelists of them all.Wouk never lets the reader forget that the Second World War was the biggest collective undertaking in the history of the human race.Wouk takes a dim view of sexual infidelity in men too.,.,Introduction of the Pulitzer Prize,For: achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. Establish: in 1917 By who: Joseph PulitzerExecution unit: Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal.,.,About The Winds of War,The story is a fiction with the main character, Pug Victor Henry being a mid-rank officer who witnesses all the major events during World War.,.,A novelty of this fiction is, with the ongoing of the story itself, an imaginary reminiscences by a German strategist was put in at intervals of chapters. That is to say, every a couple of chapters into the novel, an episode of that reminiscences(回忆录) was quoted to provide an opposite-side view of the war situation, which enables the reader to view the historical events with and all-round angle.,.,War and remembrance,These two classic works capture the tide of world events even as they unfold the compelling tale of a single American family drawn into the very center of the wars maelstrom.,.,The multimillion-copy bestsellers that capture all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of the Second World War - and that constitute Wouks crowning achievement - are available for the first time in trade paperback.,.,Winston Churchill (1874-1965),Birthplace: in a aristocratic family of Dukes of Marlborough.Nationality: EnglandOccupation: Politician, painter, speechmaker, writer, reporter,.,Father: Randolph Churchill伦道夫丘吉尔勋爵 , a Conservative politicianMother: Jennie Jerome伦道夫丘吉尔夫人(原名为珍 妮杰罗姆是美国富豪伦纳德杰罗姆（Leonard Jerome）的千金) the daughter of Leonard Jerome, a New York businessmanBrother: John Strange Spencer-Chur