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		Battle of the Atlantic is the name given to the conflicts in the Atlantic Ocean throughout World War II.
		The U-boat fleet, which was to dominate so much of the battle of the Atlantic, was very small at the beginning of the war.
		These were of even more dubious use considering the huge British fleet facing them, and even Raeder himself suggested they would be wiped out very quickly in the event of war.
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	In Dubious Battle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Dubious Battle is a novel by John Steinbeck, written in 1936.
		The central figure of the story is an activist for "the Party" (the American Communist Party, although it is never specifically named in the novel) who is organizing a major strike by the workers, seeking thus to attract followers to his cause.
		In 1958, critic Alfred Kazin referred to In Dubious Battle and The Grapes of Wrath as "his most powerful books," contrasting them with Cannery Row and The Wayward Bus which, he said, "contain many pleasant things" but "are not in the same class."
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on In Dubious Battle at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		IN DUBIOUS BATTLE is an early statement of the humanistic view which made John Steinbeck famous, and eventually won him the Nobel Prize.
		Every strike (or battle) is important but only in relation to the next strike/battle until the war itself is won (and as George or Lenny might say, "Then, we'll live on the fat of the land").
		Battles are fought, workers are hurt and killed, and the weather begins to break and surround them with rain and mud, as if they were in the trenches.
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	lection: in dubious battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In Dubious Battle is an abstract rendering of themes that Steinbeck would personalize in Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.
		In Dubious Battle isn't notable for depth of characterization.
		In Dubious Battle was not re-released in 2002 as part of Penguin's Centennial Collection of Steinbeck reprints, but is in print in a Penguin paperback edition.
	www.uta.edu /english/tim/lection/031001.html (514 words)

	Narco News: In Battle on the Plains of Heaven
		In dubious battle on the plains of Heaven
		We spoke for hours amidst the music, the dancing, the abundant Juchitán cuisine, the setting off of fireworks – it was the anniversary of a famous battle in which the people of Juchitán had driven out invading troops from France – and we realized that we had both been in Nicaragua in the 1980s.
		And although he now continues his battle on the plains of heaven, may his will be done here on earth.
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	Battle of the Bulge Anniversary - Political Forums
		The Americans did crumble, a lot of them dropped their guns and ran (the exception to this was at Bastonge), and it took British General Montgomery to temporarily assume command of the American 1st and 9th Armies to 'stop the rot'.
		A dubious battle to celebrate, but if Hollywood makes a movie about it, the USA will certainly be 'the heroes', saving the world singlehandedly.
		Germany almost won the Battle of Britain, had Hitler not re-focused the Luftwaffe away from airbases and instead on civilians in population centres.
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	GradeSaver: In Dubious Battle Essay: Problem vs Picaresque
		John Steinbeck wrote two novels in the thirties concerning human behaviors during the depression entitled The Grapes of Wrath in 1939 and In Dubious Battle in 1936.
		The Grapes of Wrath is the better novel because it fulfills the requirements of being a picaresque novel while In Dubious Battle does not stand up to the characteristics of a propaganda novel.
		In Dubious Battle does not meet the standards of a picaresque novel, but seems to follow the lines of a propaganda novel.
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	normblog: In dubious battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		So, according to that, the attorney general 'precisely' said that the use of force was legally dubious, although the same leader has earlier recorded that...
		In the Guardian, this becomes that the attorney general thought the use of force was legally dubious, or that it could be illegal, period.
		Himself concluding that there was a legal basis for the use of force in Iraq, the attorney general could not have done other than to allow for the possibility that a court might take a different view, since other international law experts were doing so.
	normblog.typepad.com /normblog/2005/02/in_dubious_batt.html (947 words)

	The Roland Comic: News and Updates
		There is no greater grief than the grief of kings and nations for their heroes lost in battles hard to bear.
		The morning following the attack on the rear-guard at Rencesvals, the amassed armies of Islam disembark on the shores of the Ebro, the timely fruition of a plea sent seven years earlier by the King of Saragossa to Baligant the Emir, the Supreme Pagan Warlord, to deliver him from Charlemagne.
		Despite his losses, Charlemagne carries the day in battle against the Emir; Saragossa is conquered; Roland is laid to rest; and Ganelon is tried, drawn and quartered, and thirty of his kinsmen hang.
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	KN@PPSTER: In dubious battle
		Participating as a contestant in BlogExplosion's "Battle of the Blogs" is only half the fun.
		And that part of his brain is focused on getting laid even when fact, logic and reality decree that it's never going to happen and even when he doesn't know that that part of his brain is driving his decisions.
		In "Battle of the Blogs," this translates to a slight advantage for blogs that are clearly authored by women.
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	Chapter I-THE ARDENNES: BATTLE OF THE BULGE
		Hungary and the ephemeral Croat "state" continued in dubious battle beside Germany, held in place by German divisions in the line and German garrisons in their respective capitals.
		On the Eastern Front the seasonal surge of battle was beginning to ebb, the Soviet summer offensive seemed to have run its course, and despite continuing battle on the flanks the center had relapsed into an uneasy calm.
		Having nominated a headquarters to control the reconstitution of units specifically named for participation in an attack to be made in the west, the logical next step in development of the plan came in Hitler's announcement on 16 September: the attack would be delivered in the Ardennes and Antwerp would be the objective.
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	The Devil's Final Battle
		Sometimes when one is caught up in the battles and ugliness of the American version of Catholicism, it's useful to look up out of the trenches and take inventory as to the true causes, scope and objectives of the greater struggle.
		Citing the battle between good and evil, it is not the author of this book or persons of dubious credibility unnecessarily exaggerating the critical nature of Fatima.
		This evidence (mostly from the mouth of the now elderly nun chosen by the Mother of God to deliver Her message to the world) is why Fatima has and will continue to haunt those Churchmen who reject its message and the supernatural virtues it represents.
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	In Dubious Battle Summary
		His best books are about ordinary men and women, simple souls who do battle against dehumanizing social forces or who struggle against their own inhumane tendencies and...
		In Dubious Battle is a novel by John Steinbeck, written in 1936.
		The central figure of the story is an activist for "the Party" (the American Communist Party, although it is never specifically named in the novel) who is organizing a major strike by the w...
	www.bookrags.com /In_Dubious_Battle (405 words)

	Critical Mass: Comment on Dubious about In Dubious Battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Posted by corey kane at November 20, 2004 05:14 PM I often use In Dubious Battle in a course on American Radicalism thatg I teach.
		The battle is, after all, dubious and the portraits of the communist organizers are often harshly critical.
		In fact, I think you can make the case that Steinbeck understood why American workers were largely impervious to communist propaganda, even while he recognized the horrible conditions under which they worked in California agriculture.
	www.erinoconnor.org /movabletype/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=975 (239 words)

	Free Essays on In Dubious Battle
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		Those who lead the strikers in the novel In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck manifest the idea that some leaders use violence and the thirst for revenge to augment the spirit of their group.
		The characters Jim and Mac in the novel In Dubious Battle exemplify that people are motivated by different reasons to fight for a cause.
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	Educational Paperback Association
		In Dubious Battle, the work that followed, gave evidence of Steinbeck's increasing concern with economic and political injustice in the midst of the Great Depression.
		"In Dubious Battle is now certainly a period piece, and is of more interest to social historians than to literary critics," wrote Harold Bloom in 1987.
		The popularity of this simple, tragic tale of the physically powerful but mentally "wanting" ranch hand Lennie and his friend and protector George was greatly enhanced by a dramatic adaptation written by Steinbeck with the help of George S. Kaufman in 1937 and by the first film version in 1941.
	www.edupaperback.org /showauth.cfm?authid=104 (1528 words)

	Steinbeck's Critical Reputation
		When In Dubious Battle was published in 1936, Steinbeck's critical reputation received a boost.
		As Benson, and others, note, leftists wanted Steinbeck to continue producing work like In Dubious Battle and The Grapes of Wrath, and many wanted him to go even further and take a harder stand against capitalism.
		Indeed, since Grapes, Steinbeck's work had been getting more personal, more subjective; which when compared with the narrative distance of In Dubious Battle and Grapes seemed such a great contrast, that whether or not there was a subsequent artistic decline, so many critics perceived it.
	nssa.bsu.edu /steinbeck's_critical_reputation.htm (1820 words)

	CAIN: Events: Dublin and Monaghan Bombs: Bell, J. Bowyer, In Dubious Battle - The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings 1972-1974 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		And the operations of 1972 and 1974 that have seemed so elaborate to the military mind were not beyond loyalist capacities.
		Regular soldiers are prone to forget the blunders of battle, the haphazard nature of war, and the ingenuity of those without training in military academies.
		Part of the time the Provisional IRA are regarded as bumbling Paddies but at other times are transmuted into professional terrorists, if for no other reason than to give rationale for security failures and security budgets.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /events/dublin/bowyer.htm (8353 words)

	John Steinbeck - Roots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He and his new wife Carol, a San Jose native, settled in the Steinbeck family's summer home in Pacific Grove, she to search for jobs to support them, he to continue writing.
		Each book is defined by Steinbeck's sensitivity for common man--misfits, striking workers, a lonely ranch wife, piasanos, migrants who sought prosperity in the golden land.
		Located between Santa Cruz and Monterey near the Santa Cruz Mountains, may be the setting of Steinbeck's strike novel, In Dubious Battle (1936).
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	Amazon.com: In Dubious Battle (20th Century Classics): Books: John Steinbeck,Warren French (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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		"In Dubious Battle" is basically the first of Steinbeck's socially-engaged novels, in which he portrays a strike staged by itinerant fruit-pickers against price-cutting orchard owners.
		This is hardly a pamphlet for the labor movement or the Communist Party, though, as Steinbeck is less interested in pontificating than showing the frustations of the workers and the toll that their resistence actually takes on them and the local community.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Dubious Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dubious Deeds: Further Adventures of Eddie Dickens: Bk.1 ~ Philip Ardagh -- (Paperback - September 2, 2004)
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		Novels and Stories, 1932-1937: The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / In Dubious Battle / Of Mice and Men (Library of America)
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	In Dubious Battle
		In the California apple country, nine hundred migratory workers rise up "in dubious battle" against the landowners.
		Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism—on the "courage never to submit or yield."
		"In Dubious Battle cannot be dismissed as a 'propaganda' novel—it is another version of the eternal human fight against injustice.
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~stephan/Steinbeck/dubious.html (342 words)

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		In the midst of this battle of good and evil, Harry Potter...
		With its tale of illegitimacy, prison, stardom, exile, love affairs and tireless battles...
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	Scotsman.com News - Opinion - When soldiers die in dubious battle
		But in the first place, Tony Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq was based not on any structure of international morality and law, but on his personal pledge of unswerving shoulder-to-shoulder support for President Bush in any action he might choose to take.
		Then secondly, in his desperation to win the support of parliament and of his own party, Tony Blair notoriously descended from the moral high ground to fight his political battle in the marshy flat-lands of spin, disinformation and ill-founded public panic-mongering.
		Churchill's dramatic call to arms before the House of Commons, 68 years ago.
	news.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=973532004 (969 words)

	Library of America: John Steinbeck: Novels and Stories 1932-1937
		In May 1931, Steinbeck wrote to his friend Amasa Miller that he was at work on "a thing called The Pastures of Heaven.
		He interviewed them with a view toward writing an account of the strike and of its leader, Pat Chambers, but was encouraged by Mavis McIntosh to recast the project as a novel.
		He began work on In Dubious Battle in early September 1934 and completed the first draft in five months; the novel was accepted by Pascal Covici and published by Covici-Friede in January 1936.
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	IN DUBIOUS BATTLE - John Steinbeck - Penguin UK
		Both a fast-paced story of social unrest and strike, and the tale of one young man's struggle for identity, IN DUBIOUS BATTLE is a novel about the apocalyptic violence that breaks out when the masses become the mob.
		Caught in this upheaval is Jim Nolan, a once aimless man who finds himself briefly becoming the leader of the strike before being crushed in its service.
		IN DUBIOUS BATTLE explores and dramatises many of the ideas and themes key to Steinbeck's writing.
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	Dubious - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		) Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.
		) Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.
		OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
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	Oracle and PeopleSoft: In Dubious Battle? - Knowledge@Wharton
		Toss in another big factor - the egos of Oracle CEO Ellison and PeopleSoft CEO Conway - and it's clear this could be a protracted war.
		"This is a big ego battle," says Metrick.
		And amid this war is a changing industry.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Novels and Stories, 1932-1937: The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / In Dubious ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In Dubious Battle was one of my favorite novels, I loved the character that I thrust into it, but personally, I love Clive Barker's work more than my own.
		In Of Mice And Men and In Dubious Battle, you truly understand the desparation of his times.
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