The book focuses on four prominent characters, Gamelin, Weygand, Manstein, and Guderia. ... Horne does an extraordinary job of pulling the reader into the idea of the Maginot Line and in the end leaves you shaking your head. ... He does so through out the book without ever giving the reader a definition. ... There weren't however enough French phrases to flaw the book entirely. ... From the beginning to the end Horne does a fairly decent job of holding your attention, which seems to be a rare attribute in many history books. ...

• Word Count: 1245
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Lee did an excellent job of writing this book. ... Lee did a good job of evenly dividing the time in the book to the varying difference in York's life. ... As I said due to the lack of a concrete thesis I believe the facts do the best job possible keeping in tact with the main idea in the book and how to keep the ideas flowing on an equal level. ... I think Lee held the reigns pretty tight on the truth throughout his book and definitely did a good job with the book. I would definitely recommend this book to my peers to read. ...

• Word Count: 1210
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Fehrenbacher is very qualified to write a book on Abraham Lincoln. He is a history professor at Stanford University, and has done a great job explaining Lincoln's life. ... This book was more of a book that concentrated during his pre-presidential life then a biography of his life. A lot of the material in this book was scattered and hard to find, I think this book was a little difficult to follow. ... He didn't quote anybody for his book....

• Word Count: 357
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

The change has been to that of a wife who can manage their time by having a job, doing the housework and taking care of their children. ... Women in their hundreds and thousands took on work, some of this was traditionally men's jobs. ... These women were still receiving little compared to men who were do the same job. ... Germaine Greer wrote a very important book in supporting women's liberation. Although this book wasn't published until 1971 it had great impact across Australia and in the united states of America. ...

• Word Count: 477
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

A) Introduction: Tom Brokaw's book, The Greatest Generation, was a book of moral reflection and great insight. ... They had watched their parents lose their businesses, their farms, their jobs [and] their hopes" (Brokaw XIX). ... He then went to work for the city of Chicago working various jobs until he retired in 1985. ... They had watched their parents lose their businesses, their farms, their jobs, their hopes. ... G) Your reaction: I was surprised by how this book was written. ...

• Word Count: 1692
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Overall the movie tried to produce the facts of the book with about the same time it would of took to read the book. ... Blacks and Hispanics found job opportunities increase, as the century grew older. ... It tried to provide all the facts and trends that the book covered. ...

• Word Count: 400
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

After he received his teacher certificate, he looked for a job, but he got no appointment because he was a Jew. He became a Swiss citizen in 1901 when he secured a job as a patent examiner at the Switzerland Patent Office in Berne, Swiss (Thomas 302). ... In America he published the book The Brown Book of Hitler Terror in 1933 where he wrote his famous quote: "As long as I have any choice I will stay only in a country where political liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law is the rule- (Einstein 2). ... When he was 11 he discovered a book called Bernstein's Popular ...

• Word Count: 1327
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Overall, the book does a good job at informing the reader about what the life of a geisha was like. ... Before coming across this book, I had no idea what a geisha was. ... Many dates were used throughout the book, years, in particular. I've never seen so many years used in a historical fiction book in my life. ... With this in mind, the author also did a great job in the paragraphing. ...

• Word Count: 1570
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The author, Kurt Vonnegut, wrote this book in a non-sequential manner. ... The book has four main settings. ... This book was written to be an antiwar narrative. ... The purpose of his job is to correct the vision of his patients. ... The irony of this is that although Billy's job as an optometrist is to correct the vision of others, he is quite blind himself. ...

• Word Count: 1466
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Ford found a job in a machine shop. ... While at home Ford found a job working part-time for the Westinghouse Engine Company. ... During this time, Ford fell in love with Clara Bryant, who he married in 1888 (World Book Encyclopedia: Henry Ford). ... All though his job as chief engineer required him to be at work 24 hours a day, his schedule allowed him time to experiment (Kerman pg 23). ... The car sold well and the company flourished and by 1907 the profits reached $1,100,000 (World Book Encyclopedia: Henry Ford). ...

• Word Count: 1368
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This is when Caputo decided to get an administrative job. ... While Caputo served his administrative jobs he learned of the deaths of his close friends. ... This book made war sound like scandalous art. ... After Caputo wrote A Rumor of War he used writing the book to help him cope with the war. ... I don't think that this book is biased at all. ...

• Word Count: 1407
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The use of maps in the book made events much more clear. ... Another useful addition to the text of the book is the pictures. ... This is not to say that the book would lack the legitimacy if the pictures were not present, but with the pictures in correlation to the events and personnel being discussed they do nothing but straighten the book. The most useful addition to the book by far is the post scrip used at the bottom of many pages throughout the book. ... Sledge does a masterful job in conveying the dangers and feelings of the marines at Peleliu and Okinawa. ...

• Word Count: 854
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

However, the interest of the reader in the contents of a book is sometimes affected by the realism with which the plot is introduced. ... His blue eyes had a deceptively vacant look; he was often lost in though, his face on autopilot as his ind puzzled through data or research material for his current book ... a wife he loved and two children he doted on, a job that tested his intellect..." ... Vatutin also did his job solely to get promoted to higher levels of bureaucracy at one point thinking: "And [I] actually believed that [I] could advance [my] career." ... Understanding ...

• Word Count: 2281
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout his life he had numerous jobs including: serving with the Indian imperial police at a police training school, a superintendent of police, dishwasher, teacher, clerk, and a sergeant in World War II. He got the influence for his first book, Down and Out in London and Paris, when he moved to England and France in 1930. ... (Des Chenes 147) In this book, Orwell presents recurring themes of personal freedom, the influence of language, and the abuse of power. ... Some say he did the best job summarizing his own strengths when he described Charles Dickens. ... Most reviewers though, ...

• Word Count: 1175
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Davy stays with basically three jobs throughout the book, whereas Jack is influenced by the time, and therefore moves from job to job, until he gets a job in the Wimmera district. Davy describes this as " an important ratchet in Jack's destiny, it was that job in the Wimmera that closed the door upon his youth forever and that gave him the woman who was to become his wife.... Sam Burlington's girl friend, Jess is murdered later in the book and this affects Davy profusely because the police arrest Sam for the crime, and question Davy. ...

• Word Count: 1059
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Adrien Brody does a wonderful job in the part of Wladyslaw Szilman. ... Adrien does a superb job playing the part of a Jew during World War II. ... The Pianist is based on a the book that Wladyslaw Szilman wrote about his experience in the ghetto and World War II. ...

• Word Count: 407
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Rather than looking for a job and trying to find a girl, he isolates himself from everyone. ... He slowly develops a daily routine of during the blazing summer, "sleeping late in bed getting up to walk down to the library to get a book room" (167). ... Krebs enj1oys watching young girls go by as he sits on his porch with his book open; his interest is irrevelant. ... This may not be a big issue, but Krebs is an adult who should take care of his personal issues into his own hands by getting a woman or seeking a job to support himself instead of relying on his parents. ...

• Word Count: 849
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He ended up dropping out of Stanford and joining the underpaid laborers for a job (Green). ... He tells the story of their lives, which is a background to his job during college as a laborer (Hughes 78). ... It was a direct book from his life. ... His book, The Sea of Cortez was written while on a marine biology project with his friend, Ed Ricketts. ... For a national book award for fiction, to a Nobel prize in literature (Tuttleton). ...

• Word Count: 1462
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In this book, she tells the story of her difficult childhood. ... The family gets them the book, "War and Peace" to read. They spend time reading this book. ... Annie had placed the book on the grandmother's mother lace cap. ... He gets false documentation for Sini to get a job. ...

• Word Count: 967
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In this book, she tells the story of her difficult childhood. ... The family gets them the book, "War and Peace" to read. They spend time reading this book. ... Annie had placed the book on the grandmother's mother lace cap. ... He gets false documentation for Sini to get a job. ...

• Word Count: 895
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The book Snow Falling on Cedars is set on a small island in the Pacific Northwest, off of the Washington coast. ... The book ends as Ishmael is typing up the story of Carl's death on his typewriter. ... Overall, I would recommend this book to other people. ... The author does an excellent job of developing his characters, and it is very interesting to watch the transformation that Ishmael undergoes during the course of the book. ... I believe that everyone could benefit from reading this book....

• Word Count: 1068
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

He started taking a lot of drugs and injections in order to cope with his condition and the stresses of the job. ... The seventh chapter concludes the book with the death of Hitler. ... This book is an up to date investigation of Hitler's death. ... This part is not specifically related to the book's main theme. ... This book basically picks up where others have left off. ...

• Word Count: 1613
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

A medical drug; the fat old men who don't want us crowding them out at their jobs." ... I truly enjoyed the book, which is rather rare for me unless it's a sports book or magazine. The book explained characteristics of the characters in depth. ... With characters like that, it made the book more enjoyable. ... I would strongly suggest the book to other guys like myself. ...

• Word Count: 1253
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The day I went to the library, I decided to work for 5 hours, and during my time there I got to learn how the librarians shelf the videos they have there, plus I got to learn how to check in books which turned out to be the simplest job I've done there so far. Next time I go to a library I will make sure that when I get a book to return it to the place I found it because its really, really hard and confusing to put them back after its been put in a wrong place. ...

• Word Count: 313
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

As an adult, he wanted to hear his father's story and make it into a book. ... Art turned his book about his father's life in the Holocaust into a comic book, using mice to represent the Jews and cats to represent the Nazis. This book, "Maus" (mouse in German), took 13 years to create and finish. When "Maus" hit the book stores, many people had mixed feelings about a book that told the story of one man's life through the Holocaust in the form of a comic. ... Across America, propaganda was spread blaming the Jews for everything, including the depression because they took so m...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School