Christ Stopped at Eboli
Memoir by Carlo Levi, published in 1945, giving an account of his exile from 1935-1936 to Grassano and Aliano, remote towns in southern Italy, in the region of Lucania which is known today as Basilicata
1940s
If This Is a Man
Memoir by Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi, first published in 1947. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February 1944 until the camp was liberated on 27 January 1945.
The Berlin Stories
Book consisting of two novellas by Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin and Mr Norris Changes Trains
Zen in the Art of Archery
Book by German philosophy professor Eugen Herrigel, published in 1948, about his experiences studying Kyd, a form of Japanese archery, when he lived in Japan in the 1920s. It is credited with introducing Zen to Western audiences in the late 1940s and 1950s.
The Glass Bead Game
Last full-length novel by the German author Hermann Hesse
Kon-Tiki
1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948 American comedy film directed by H. C. Potter and starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Melvyn Douglas
The Power and the Glory
1940 novel by British author Graham Greene
The Third Man
1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard
Johnny Tremain
Work of historical fiction written in 1943 by Esther Forbes that is set in Boston prior to and during the outbreak of the American Revolution