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unusual facts about A Separate Peace


Ski warfare

The United States ski patrol plays a vital role in the plot to the book A Separate Peace.



see also

Curtis Bean Dall

Dall's memoir contains historically interesting details of his conversations with Commander George Earle, who while serving in Istanbul in 1943 attempted to negotiate a separate peace with Germany's Wilhelm Canaris and Franz von Papen; and with Admiral Husband Kimmel, who believed he was deliberately set up by the White House at Pearl Harbor.

John Knowles

In 1972, Paramount Pictures released a film version of A Separate Peace, directed by Larry Peerce and starring Parker Stevenson (Gene) and John Heyl (Phineas).

Uwe Johnson

Translator of John Knowles's A Separate Peace (1959) as In diesem Land (1963)