The use of maps in the book made events much more clear. Few readers (with the exception of possibly historians) have a working knowledge of the islands of Peleliu and Okinawa so the use maps enables the reader to visualize the movements of the first marine division. ...
Horne also incorporates maps and pictures into the book, which makes it interactive for the reader. As Macmullian states in his review 'The terrent expands into France', "'To Lose A Battle' is very well mapped and indexed."...
WWII Peace brought neither stability nor lasting prosperity to the Western democracies, which paid a heavy price for their victory in World War I. Although, the United States suffered comparatively minor financial losses, huge war debts threatened the economic and political stability of Great Brita...
How Hitler Could Have Won WII? It is easy to look back on decisions we made in the heat of the moment, and realize how wrong hose choices really were. Some decisions made in this war should have been better thought out. This book explains some of the decisions that were made. His main point is th...
The Rise of Independent Nations In Indochina Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. All of these nations came into existence during a turbulent era around fifty years ago. They are the three nations, which make up the region commonly known as, Indochina. Before those countries were founded, the entire ...
Explain how World War 2 impacted on Australia's alliances with Great Britain, and the United States of America. WW2 began in 1939 which impacted thousands of people and countries. Australia, Germany, Japan, Britain and United States of America were some of the significant countries that played a maj...
WWI Essay Causes The four main causes of WWI were nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and the system of alliances. The match that lit the fire was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, by Gavril Princip. Gavril Princip was a member of the terrorist organization the "Black Hand". After the assas...
Global Effects - WWI killed fewer victims than WWII; it destroyed fewer buildings and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions, but in many ways it left deeper scars than WWII, both on the minds of the people and on the map of Europe (it was the first major war)...
Adolph Hitler has been one of the most researched and discussed figures of our time. From his meager beginnings, one would not think such a man could rise to such power. Hitler somehow managed to do so and in the process took the lives of so many innocent people. In this paper, we take a look at...
It was World War I that saw the development of the submarine as an effective weapon of war. The German submarine arm caused a threat to the British Allies in World War I, by the cutting of maritime supply routes that the British forces were depending upon (Jordan, 8). During the First World War the trade routes were ever so important because they consisted of foodstuffs that the British agriculture could not replace if the supply route was cut (Jordan, 8). It was the German submarine campaigns of World War I that influenced the German naval strategy of World War II. Without the naval campaign...
In Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, the lives of several characters, particularly Hana (a Canadian nurse), Count Laszlo de Almasy (the English patient), Kip (a Sikh bomb dismanteler), and Caravaggio (a thief by profession) are shaped by their involvement in World War II (Italy 1944), and act...
Alvin York was born in Pall Mall Tennessee on December 13, 1887, the third of 11 children born to William and Mary York. His Grandfather, Uriah York, was an Army Veteran of the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. The York family scraped out a living on their modest farm and supplemented their ta...
Death, destruction, and mercilessness do little justice in describing the horrible events that took place on December 7th, 1941. What Pearl Harbor fails to accurately depict is the complexity of the situation. The actual causes of the attack and also the long-term effects that the attack on Pearl ...
It was designed was to prepare boys for military service and was strong emphasis was placed on physical activity as well as military activities like marching, bayonet drill, grenade throwing, trench digging, map reading, use of dugouts, how to get under barbed wire and pistol shooting. ...
The setting was perfect because the people of Germany were itching for any leader that would tell them just what they wanted to hear. World War I was over and the people of Germany were in an economic depression that crippled the country. The German mark had lost so much value that it took a wheelba...
The Two Ocean War by Samuel E. Morison is a extraordinary masterpiece on the history of U.S navel operations in World War II. The Book is illustrated with 35 Photographs and 54 charts and maps of key engagements. The novel has precise records Of the battle from Pearl Harbor to the war of attrition...
When thinking of World War One, the pictures that often come to mind are trenches, stagnant warfare and other items that are associated with the Western Front. When one thinks of War in Africa, items that generally come to mind are old tribal wars, or General Rommel's Afrika Corps, General Montgomery and the Battle of El Alamein. However war in Africa can be thoroughly included in the history of World War One. War in Africa occurred almost simultaneously as war in Europe did. War in Africa first broke out in early August 1914 with all the German colonies being attacked by the Allies, th...
As if from nowhere, in 1933, a black cloud of hate began to rise over Europe and quickly darkened the sky. Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. As a result, the map of the world had been reshaped. The only way to explain how such a thing coul...
The Condition of Man in The Heart of Darkness and The Lord of the Flies "Man is a fallen being. He is gripped by original sin. His nature is sinful and his state perilous-(Golding, "Fable-, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces, Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1965, page 61). This quote by William Golding sums up his view of the soul of mankind. This feeling is shared by many authors, especially modern ones. ...
