Monday 17 August 2026 11:20 am On this day, 17 August, in 1945, with pro-Soviet sentiment rapidly fading in the UK, George Orwell’s dystopian classic Animal Farm is finally published, writes Eliot WilsonFriday 17 August 1945. The Second World War was finally over. Two days beforehand, the Emperor of Japan, speaking to his people, admitted that “the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage”. The previous week, Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been obliterated by atomic bombs.The elaborate and oblique Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War, in classical Japanese, did not say “surrender”, but that is what...
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