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      • Yes. The covert organization in the movie is loosely based on the true story of the British Army's No. 62 Commando, also known as the Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF), which was founded by Major Gus March-Phillips (portrayed by Henry Cavill in the film).
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  2. In 1862, Mr. March, an abolitionist and chaplain in the Union Army, is driven by his conscience to leave his home and family in Concord, Massachusetts, to participate in the war.

    • Geraldine Brooks
    • 2005
  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Little_WomenLittle Women - Wikipedia

    Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes, in 1868 and 1869. [1][2] The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood.

    • Louisa May Alcott
    • 1868
  4. Mar 6, 2017 · Geraldine Brooks presents a bold and provocative story centered on the “shadow” character of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Mr. March, in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, March (Penguin Books, 2005). She takes that risk a step further by fleshing out Marmee, the quintessential mother figure.

  5. Readers see themselves in the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, who all feel so real. So, it comes as no surprise to learn that Little Women is a semi-autobiographical retelling of...

  6. Sep 20, 2005 · Doctorow begins his story of Sherman's campaign in the midst of it -- after the Union Army had captured Atlanta and begun the first leg of its march to Savannah, Georgia. Doctorow gives a vivid picture of an Army on the march, for the most part unopposed, destroying everything in its path.

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  7. Dec 26, 2019 · In fact, the real story is much darker than what ended up on the page, or in Greta Gerwig's new adaptation starring Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, Eliza Scanlen, and Florence Pugh as the four March sisters. Here's what we know about the Alcott family.

  8. Nov 3, 2020 · In 2005 award-winning author, E.L. Doctorow, released a book that handled one of the more controversial aspects of the Civil War. In The March, Doctorow addresses General William Tecumseh Sherman’s strategic foray across the south designed to gut the Confederacy and destroy its citizen’s willingness to wage war.