Essays 541 - 570
First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...
been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...
was able to be waged. There are two things that differentiated the air campaign from other prior conflicts. One difference is that...
All five opposed King Richard III and, at various times, were personally accused of treason by Richard. Chapter 2 gives a brief in...
Ionian Greeks under Persian rule, with the other Greeks were free, a state of affairs that was going to cause trouble sooner or la...
the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...
North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...
bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...
6 pages and 6 sources. This paper cosiders the African American experience in the American Civil War. This paper relates the exp...
In five pages the Second World War's Battle of the Atlantic is analyzed. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....
In six pages this paper compares these two classical works in terms of plot, characterization, setting, thematic portrayals of war...
In five pages this reality text by Remarque on the horrors of war as experienced by young Paul Baumer during the First World War i...
In five pages the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive is the focus of this overview of the memoir by Tobias Wolff. One source is cited in...
In five pages this paper assesses the statement 'Politicians start wars, armies do not. Government end wars, generals do not' in ...
This 5 page paper discusses current accounts of the Second World War coming out of Japan, Russia and Poland. The writer argues tha...
themselves embroiled in a grinding war of attrition against a powerful coalition of opposing states (http://fas.org/man/dod-101/op...
Hemingway's works are discussed as they highlight the aspect of beauty as it appears in war. This unlikely subject is contemplated...
In twenty one pages the reasons Australia entereed the war, continued in the combat, its antiwar movement, and the occurrences fol...
In seven pages the U.S. Civil War's bloodiest conflict and its implications are examined. Nine sources are cited in the bibliogra...
In six pages this paper examines how the Second World War and Vietnam War are portrayed in the films Sands of Iwo Jima, Hamburger ...
contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...
in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...
the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...
component of warfare since its very first introduction in the 1300s (Norris, 2001). During the first years of this countrys histo...
cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...
finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...
supported by Russia (1991). The political climate became quite complex and the U.S. wanted to help Europe. It was a time of bomb s...
1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...
time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...
of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...