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Character Development in The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

It is true that he offers a detailed and thorough account of strategy, weaponry and...

Federalism and the Writings of William Manning

of the progress which the process of democratisation was making in America in the eighteenth century. It could be asserted that Ma...

Kenneth Stammp's The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877

In five pages this paper examines this author's attempts to emphasizes the similarities between the Civil War and the Reconstructi...

Neville Chamberlain's Policies of Appeasement

This paper examines the pre World War II appeasement policies of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain in tewnty seven pages....

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

This paper consists of five pages and examines this novel about the Civil War in terms of its subject matter and characterizations...

Review and Summary of Peter Goldman and Tony Fuller's Charlie Company (What Vietnam Did to Us)

In five pages this 1983 memoir on soldiers' Vietnam War experiences is summarized, reviewed, and critiqued....

Holocaust and Its Sociopolitical Causes

There has been some evidence that Hitlers rabid anti-Semitism was catalyzed upon his rejection. One of the most prominent judges ...

Totalitarianism and How It Originated

the human omnipotence and the genuinely powerless. The books grim analysis of totalitarianisms origin leads the author to ass...

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara'

In five pages the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg as seen through the eyes of author Michael Shaara is examined in this text review...

George Packer/Assassin’s Gate

war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...

Churchill/The Gathering Storm

describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...

Causes of WWII/Pacific Theatre

was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...

Two Vietnam Books

(Tanenhaus, 1999). The struggle between the two countries was both strategic and ideological, with the "future governance of the i...

Philip Caputo’s Policy Paper to Richard Nixon’s 1968 Presidential Campaign on Vietnam

The following represents what Caputos policy paper to the Nixon campaign about the conduct of the conflict might have looked like....

Developing Identity: Gender in the 50s and 60s

to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and a...

O’Brien: “If I Die in a Combat Zone”

United States, and the troops suffered significant losses from problems that had nothing to do with the Viet Cong. In "Days," the...

Book Report on William Manchester’s The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 (Vol. 1)

with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...

A History of Values and Attitudes in America

et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

Women's Role In WWI And The Agricultural Adjustment Act

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

All Quiet on the Western Front & Iraq

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

Zuckerman's Playing a Real Bad Hand (Article Summary and Review)

Iraq fares will determine the direction of the global war on terrorism" (Zuckerman, 2007). Zuckerman concludes that because of th...

Born on the Fourth of July

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

Media and the Administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson

war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...

Orwell/1984 Overview

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

Robert McNamara and Sun Tzu

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

An Analysis of the Graphic Portrayals of Violence in 'Saving Private Ryan'

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

The Changing View of Warfare

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

Armor Development

broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Generations

a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...

U.S. Cities Growth

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...