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back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...
a thicket of vines. This is a slow tracking show that is designed to five the audience the impression that they are seeing the poi...
film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...
railways were so relatively new that strategists had yet to really utilize their usefulness. With these basic elements in mind the...
it should be said that sea travel was quite important during these wars. Submarines, sometimes called U-Boats after the German phr...
This is very important to understand. It is not as if there were cell phones or video cameras around. It was not as if there had b...
as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...
rulers was growing increasingly bitter. Frederick the Great began his reign at the same time Maria Theresia became the monarch of ...
Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...
the beam, its attachment point along the beam and the distance of that attachment point from the ground, the weight and position o...
old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...
now begun to build an empire: it has territories such as the Philippines and Puerto Rico, and the invasion of Iraq, many speculate...
of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...
occupied areas, but conversely the Palestinians are to dismantle violent extremist groups as well (Israel Restrained After Suicide...
of Guilford Courthouse took place on March 15, 1781 and some say that was the beginning of the end of what was known as the revolu...
(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...
to become involved in this large, European action. In the early thirties, prior to 1941 when the U.S. was attacked, the European...
in 1947, started with the single incident of granting Israel a portion of land which was held by the Palestinians. Historical e...
in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...
At the beginning of this extended speech, the representative from Corcyra prefaces his narrative of events with an appeal that is ...
works of the time, self-published, and were handed out to Bostonian readers by the twelve-year-old author himself (DuHadaway 34). ...
G and I, Magruder led a storm of fury that would eventually render a Confederate victory. Even with this winning reclamation effo...
the media of the time (i.e. television and movies), as well as the impact of various frames of "official" reference such as census...
. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...
sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...
housed the U.N. for some ten years (Whitelaw, 2003). The twenty-three casualties would include key U.N. officials such as Sergio ...
World War I resulted from a variety of causes, the most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geograph...
conquered territory, when Pompey had returned he found he did not have the assistance of the Optimates and his requests were oppos...
Bicentennial Authority, designed projects based on the theme of "Leisure in the Age of Technology" (Editor, 1990, p. 3). The diffe...
the propaganda proliferated relied on fear and questionable facts in order to gain the sympathies of the people. In retrospect, th...