postwar

IPA: pˈoʊstwˈɔr

Alternative spelling of post-war [Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict.]

Examples of "postwar" in Sentences

In 1947, they began collecting clothes for children in postwar Europe.
This is a fine book, but it is far from the only "carnivalesque" novel to be found in postwar fiction.
It also makes The Subterrraneans itself an important text both in postwar American fiction and American literature as a whole.
“The rise of the creative-writing program,” he says, “stands as the most important event in postwar American literary history.”
The lyric by Enrique Santos Discepolo, master composer of the tango, sums up the situation here just as it did in postwar Buenos Aires:
Both The Angel's Game and Shadow of the Wind are translated into English by Lucia Graves (daughter of poet and I, Claudius author Robert Graves); who was raised on the island of Majorca in postwar Spain.
It was a part that captured a peculiarly repellent side of the Reagan-Thatcher era and it rightly brought Michael Douglas an Oscar for outdoing the hyperactive villains his father, Kirk, played in postwar melodramas.