IB History Book Review: Hiroshima by John Hersey 1) This story relates to America dropping the A-bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. ... How could they commit this atrocity? ... He later tries to loose his past and get a clean start. ... Therefore, I very much enjoyed this book. ... I like how Hersey follows his characters over years after what happened; it allows one to see how they continued with their lives but still how this tragedy continues to affect them, how it remains a large part of their life. ...

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The author's father and Jewish neighbors start to meet to discuss Hitler's activities. ... The Germans and the family as to start their own school capture the schoolteacher. ... The family receives a letter demanding that they report to a Dutch work camp. ... Chapter five tells how the girls get to know the Oostervelds. ... They spend time reading this book. ...

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The author's father and Jewish neighbors start to meet to discuss Hitler's activities. ... The Germans and the family as to start their own school capture the schoolteacher. ... The family receives a letter demanding that they report to a Dutch work camp. ... Chapter five tells how the girls get to know the Oostervelds. ... They spend time reading this book. ...

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In this paper, we take a look at how Hitler's life came to an end. ... This book is broken is broken down into seven chapters, starting from 1943 and ending with 1945. ... He started taking a lot of drugs and injections in order to cope with his condition and the stresses of the job. ... This book does the reader a great service in that it presents hard evidence rather than wild theories on how Hitler met his fate. ... Also, the archives contained reports of people who were actually in the Bunker and not simply connected. ...

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As Jack Ryan, the key role played in the book, starts to analyze all of the data, he is given to thinking that the submarine is on a course to defect and not to start a neuclear war with the United States. ... Consequently, the US starts its own search. ... A series of thrilling and very technical discussions and explainations of the naval vessals and their design and use is detailed int he book to much effort by the author and far more detailed than can be included in a book report. ... The book is of greater length and detail, the movie version does not do the book justice--especially tow...

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This parallels to the predicted reaction that the Pentagon expected from "U.S. noncombatants" in recently declassified reports that have begun to be released to the general public. ... By storing these massive amounts of radioactive booty at his house and trading to the local town's folk starts a radioactive epidemic that claims the lives of three more Fort Reposians before killing Porky himself. This doesn't seem very important in Frank's book at first, but it's most likely a very realistic picture of how our society thinks in some ways. ... Frank is most likely trying to ...

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Time can change many things included how humans see world around them. ... Historian Michael Lind in his book "Vietnam the Necessary War" mention that China aided North Vietnam with as much as 327,000 soldiers. ... Government overstates danger, and understates, or did not report true situation in South Vietnam. ... When I started read about Vietnam War I mainly concentrated on wrongness of the war, but as I went further, it became that it is impossible to judge. ... Yet it is impossible to predict what would occur if the war would never start. ...

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Another book that illustrates the calamity of the Holocaust is Memories of my life in a Polish Village, by T.K. ... In her book, Toby Fluek, a small Jewish girl, describes how her family had to move to a Jewish Ghetto and go into hiding several times to save their lives when World War II began. ... It shows us how much we still have to learn about the world and the civilizations and how hard it is to understand the reason why we do such things to our fellow human beings. ... We have to imagine what it was like and how bad it would be if something of such impact would be happening to us. ... As...

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He was never able to write the book. ... He and Mary were friends starting at that moment. ... This book, he says, is a failure. ... His father tries to teach him how to swim by the sink-or-swim method. ... Ditched again, Weary starts to beat Billy up, furious that this weak college kid has cost him his membership in "the Three Musketeers." ...

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Goebbels knew exactly how to influence a crowd. ... Hitler's Party started their propaganda schemes several years before World War Two even started because they needed that much time to slowly control the population. ... "When every contemporary book people read, every newspaper, every film they see, every broadcast they hear for years on end is permeated with the same spirit, the same propaganda, they are no longer to relate what they see and hear to alternative reports; they lose their judgement"(Winkler 18). ... They used movies to show the people how war is used for good and how it is...

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Before looking into either of these arguments, one must look into the Holocaust itself, what was it and how did the Nazi government manage to murder several million people? ... During the War, when these countries may have received reports of the mass killings it would have been much harder to take action. ... In 1933, during The Nazi's first few months in power they urged the German people to boycott Jewish businesses, as well as staging a book burning, destroying publications promoting "un-German" ideas. ... Functionalists, unlike the Intentionalists, Believe that Genocide of the Jews...

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The winds code was an earlier transmission that they had intercepted that turned out to be a fake weather report broadcast on a Japanese short-wave station. ... Theobald once wrote "This was the president's problem, and his solution was based upon the simple fact that, while it takes two to make a fight, either one may start it." ... Stinnett's book gives proof that American Naval intelligence had broken the Japanese code about 15 months before the attack. ...

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People at the time published reports on the unfairness of the treaty. ... We must examine the background, clauses, and effects of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany and Europe to understand how it helped c! ... Then, when you look at the situation the treaty created for Europe, we can see how WWII came about. ... Hitler felt it was the right time to start a revolution. ... Hitler explained his political views in his book Mein Kampf or My Struggle. ...

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These countries have just acquired the capability of firing a nuclear missile and starting world war III. ... Smallpox was a virus that everyone thought that was gone for good, the last case documented in the United States was in 1949 and 1977 was the last reported case in the world. ... However, it is possible for non nuclear states to acquire the materials necessary to start a nuclear program. ... First, how and for what purpose do these countries prepare to use this weapon? ... Basically, military doctrine consists of plans that a country makes deciding how and when military force shoul...

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The war suddenly seeming ironically similar to the soldier in Disabled, (who) liked "a smear of blood down his leg to please his Meg" the poem showing at a stroke how effective the recruiting offices were in their quest for blood that would be "poured down shell-holes." 4) The postcard in source E, is atypical of the type of censorship that existed at the front to maintain morale later in the war, as propaganda was used more extensively in order to bolster morale on the home front. ...

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