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things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...
success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...
on Armstrongs body but the real heroics are attributable to the man and to the body itself! Armstrong was diagnosed with te...
was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...
process, Ho Chi Minh claims that more than two million Vietnamese died of starvation, a result not only of French preoccupation wi...
the children to do. Families moved to the cities and the transition was difficult. Still, this larger change resulted in a reduced...
the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...
A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...
is a compelling subject addressed by the author in the context of various portions of the work. Also, the ideas are summed up nice...
leaders create charts, statistics and graphs that have at their core the notion that an organization is like a complex machine tha...
elected prime minister of Iran" (Keddie, 2003). Once Mossadegh was gone, the U.S. "reinstalled the countrys exiled monarch, Mohamm...
to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...
particular national treasure which has taken the military through many different periods in history. Such is further enhanced by M...
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...
it" (Zelnick, 2005). There was also some dissent at this time, but it didnt come from protestors, but from professional military p...
are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...
However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...
and experts alike will find this book useful. It is mostly geared, however, to the user not to the computer repair technician but...
as no one bothered to make sure that things would go well. In the end, the war was just stopped but there were no victories. Ther...
Captain and time as an instructor and dean of faculty at West Point Military Academy. "Founding Brothers" is just one of seven hi...
of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...
had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...
Democracy, say Communist opposition, is necessary for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is ...
dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...
from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...
the Vietnam debacle, and, consequently overlook Johnsons achievements in Europe, which Schwartz feels "deserve consideration as on...
discuss the impact of the mans drinking on his wife and children. Although the author makes an attempt to include women in a chap...