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1.
Who was the prime minister of England
when war broke out on September 29, 1939?
2.
What country was invaded, finally prompting France
and England to issue an ultimatum that the Germans must
either withdraw or a state of war would exist?
3.
What is the difference between a hereditary heir in
the House of Lords and a United States Senator?
4. King and Queen are the highest rank
of British nobility. Prince and Princess are second.
What are third?
5. What is the name of London's
subway system, where so many British citizens had to sleep
during air raids?
6. U.S. law prevented America from
giving direct aid to Britain for the two years it was at
war, but the U.S. was not. What program
did President Roosevelt implement to get around these
restrictions-using the analogy that "if your
neighbor's house is on fire, it's perfectly acceptable to
lend him your garden hose?"
7. Who were the three largest Axis
Powers?
8. Who were the three largest Allied
Powers?
9. Which large British battlecruiser
did the German battleship Bismarck sink?
10. In America they were called PT
boats. What did the British call them?
11. Which U.S. president was captain of
PT-109?
12. Of the three great Allied leaders
of World War II-Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and
Josef Stalin-who is the only one who remained in office at
the end of the war?
Answers:
1. Neville Chamberlain
2. Poland
3. Senators are elected by popular
vote, hereditary heirs are members of the Lords by birth
4.
Duke and Duchess
5.
The Tube
6.
Lend-Lease
7.
Germany, Italy, and Japan
8.
Countries of the British Commonwealth,
the United States, and Russia
9.
The Hood
10.
Motor torpedo boats
11.
John F. Kennedy
12.
Stalin-Churchill was defeated in an election and
Roosevelt died while in office
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c. powdered sugar
1 c. butter, softened
3.4-oz. pkg. vanilla pudding
2 c. Pillsbury's Best all-purpose or unbleached flour
1 tbsp. milk
1 tbsp. vanilla
3 chocolate English toffee 3/4-oz. bars, crushed
Powdered sugar
Heat oven to 325 degrees F. In large bowl, cream powdered
sugar, butter, and pudding mix. Lightly spoon flour into
measuring cup; level off. Stir flour, milk, vanilla, and
crushed toffee bars into creamed mixture. Mix well.
Shape into 1-inch balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake at 325 degrees for 13 to 18 minutes or until
edges are light golden brown. Cool. Dip top of cookie in
powdered sugar. Makes 6 dozen cookies.
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As Time Goes By
by Jerry Borrowman
As
German bombs fall over London and England is drawn into
war, members of the Carlyle family are forced to make
choices that will deeply affect their lives-and the lives
of thousands of others. Family patriarch Philip, a member
of the House of Lords and a confidant of Winston
Churchill, has been struggling for the esteem of his peers
since joining the LDS Church. As he slowly gains
acceptance, little does Philip realize there is someone
very close to him who would like to see him destroyed-even
if it means taking the entire country down with him.
As the Carlyles scatter across three continents, family
divisions hewn by supposed
political beliefs grow wider than the geographical
distance that separates them, and it seems the family will
never be together again. In this time when safety is only
momentary, for one member of the Carlyle family perhaps
the most dangerous enemy is himself.
An unforgettable reading experience, this poignant tale of
World War II from acclaimed author Jerry Borrowman is a
stirring tribute to the remarkable survival of the human
spirit.
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Discussion Questions: As Time Goes By
1.
Philip Carlyle is introduced to the LDS Church by Dan
O'Brian, an American soldier whom he rescues on the
battlefields of France during World War I.
A Church of England chaplain, Philip responds to
the message of the Restoration and accompanies Dan to Salt
Lake City where he ultimately renounces his fortune and
joins the Church. Are there examples
from your own family where someone has made great
sacrifices for his or her religious beliefs?
2.
When his father passes away, Philip's mother prevails on
him to return with his family to England to lay claim to
his inherited title-Viscount Carlyle. As
a member of the British aristocracy, Philip is privy to
the inner workings of the British government. Do
you know any instances where members of the Church have
played an influential role in the governments where they
live? What unique challenges do you
suppose they face being members of the Church?
3. Philip is generally viewed as a sensitive and
kind person. But his second son,
Dominic, is very difficult to deal with, often provoking
Philip to impatience and sharpness. Philip
and Claire try everything they can think of to help
Dominic succeed-yet he resists them and insists on going
his own way-as long as they support him financially.
Why do you think well-motivated parents are
sometimes given challenging children? How
can they help a child who is bent on rebellion?
4.
As the Nazis began the infamous Battle of Britain, in
which they hope to crush English morale by indiscriminate
bombing of civilian populations in London and other major
cities, the citizens of England were forced into
underground shelters, including the subway system, at the
peril of their lives. Emerging into the
daylight, they often found their homes and places of work
destroyed. How can people maintain
their morale in the face of the cruelties of war?
5.
Most stories of war are written about heroes. But
what happens when a family member is less than heroic-a
coward? How does a family cope with a
member who is a disappointment, whether in war or in
peacetime-perhaps a felon, an unfaithful spouse, or a
financial sponge? How do you support
the person without enabling his or her unproductive
behavior?
6.
Michael earns great distinction in his military service,
but at great personal injury. Why is it
that young men are often called on to sacrifice their
futures for country and for freedom?
7.
Few Americans realize that England stood alone against the
Nazis for nearly two years before America and Russia
entered the war as allies. After
reading this book, do you feel a new appreciation for what England
endured?
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Get Personal with Jerry Borrowman
How
do you research your books?
This is easily the most frequently asked question
readers pose to me. I try to provide
realism and authenticity to my books by providing
technical details, such as how a steam locomotive works,
how shells are loaded into the giant sixteen-inch guns of
a battleship, or the horsepower of the engines in a motor
torpedo boat. For me this is the best part of
writing. Having studied World War II
since the time I was a young man, I've been fascinated by
the technology of the early 20th Century.
So, the way I develop a fictional story is to
choose a topic that interests me and then find all the
books I can on the subject, including personal narratives,
reference books, and historical summaries. From
this I construct a believable but totally fictional story
and then populate it with characters. At
the end it's the story that resonates-but
it's the technical accuracy that informs readers and makes
the story feel real.
You have three co-authored biographies and three fiction
books set in World War I, World War II, and Vietnam.
Which do you prefer writing?
I love my co-authored biographies-Three Against Hitler
with Rudi Wobbe, A Distant Prayer with Joe Banks,
and Beyond the Call of Duty with Bernie
Fisher-because I admire these men so much. Each
is a genuine hero with a remarkably interesting and
compelling story. When people
compliment me on one of these books I generally reply that
I just wrote the story-Rudi
and Joe and Bernie lived it. In doing
so they passed through perils and hardships that I can
only imagine. So the primary emotion I feel about these
books is a profound sense of gratitude that I was given
the chance to bring their stories to life in a permanent
way, because I think the message of their sacrifice needs
to live on for generations. In other
words, I think these books are historically significant.
Having said that, it's a lot more fun to write fiction
because I can use my own imagination and create complex
story lines that weave the stories of multiple characters
together in a way that creates suspense and anticipation.
I've also been surprised at how much emotion
readers feel when reading my stories. Certainly
I get emotional as well, because to make the stories seem
authentic to readers the characters have to become real in
my mind. I'm successful if they are
also realistic to readers.
What's the general profile of your readers?
When I first started writing books about World War II, I
assumed that my readership would be adult males.
But it turns out that the books have a much broader
appeal-male and female, youth and adult. For
example, I find it gratifying that I have young men and
women as young as ten and eleven who are avid fans, even
though the story lines require a lot of maturity to fully
understand. One young lady wrote me
from Florida saying that as a member of the Church of
Jewish descent, she never understood exactly what the
Jewish people suffered at the hands of the Nazis until she
read Three Against Hitler.
She'd written a book report that had been entered
in a statewide contest that she won. Somehow
the stories out of war are universal because they speak to
the issues of evil vs. righteousness, freedom vs.
tyranny-and those are subjects that resonate with all of
us.
Do you write full-time?
I write as a hobby. While I'm at
a point in my life that I could probably get by on
writing, I don't want it to become a job. I
write because I love to tell stories and I always want my
writing to be natural-not forced. I'm a
very lucky person to have both a job that I love and a
hobby that allows me to reach out to literally hundreds of
thousands of readers to share ideas that I think are
important.
What's your favorite Jerry Borrowman book?
It's
always the one I'm in the process of writing because
that's where my mind and imagination are currently
engaged.
So, are you working on one now?
There will be a fourth and final book in this fictional
series. It will finish the story of As
Time Goes By and tie all the characters in all three
books back to a common ending.
Since you write about the wars of the 20th
Century, who is your favorite military author?
Winston Churchill-no contest. But he's
just one of hundreds that I've read and I like them all.
History is fascinating, and there's so much of it
that I don't ever have to worry about getting bored.
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