In 1912, Yoshihito became emperor of Japan making Hirohito the new crown prince. Hirohito was educated at a palace school established to prepare the crown prince for his future responsibilities. ... However, Hirohito could do little to stop Japan's slow drift into full-scale war with China, which occurred in 1937. ... The book contains numerous stories of Hirohito's rise from a shy young prince, to a god-king emperor on a white horse, to the gentle, family man he chose to be in the postwar years. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Separate from the price and where the tobacco comes from the ad reads: "Tobacco and Warfare - When the fighting in France was at its worst, the German Crown Prince asked his home people to send the men at the front all the smoking tobacco they could. ... Friends if you have a problem or a battle, big or little, on hand, mobilize VELVET- The Smoothest Smoking Tobacco. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In his recorded memoirs he pointed to the problem within the Russian Imperial Army that the majority of aristocratic generals and officers neglected their troops and had little understanding, or esprit connection, with the ordinary peasant soldiers. ... Beside a military defeat, where 18,000 of Japan's 60,000 battle force were killed, and probably another 20,000 wounded, the imperial family was mortified by the desertion of Lieutenant Higashikuni, the twenty-three-year-old son of Prince Higashikuni, during the fight, a matter suppressed by Japanese censors.13 Stalin was also happy to call...

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With Britain controlling the area around the Rhine River, The Prince of Wales believed that Britain's Army of the Rhine should be recognized. ... The Army stayed in Germany until 1994 when the Prince said during a speech on October 28th, 1994, concerning the disarmament of the army: "the momentous events in Russia, Central Europe and Germany have brought changes for us all in Western Europe, almost all for the better. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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