However, that illusion was quickly shattered by hard facts: slaughters, piled-up bodies, villages being destroyed, farms being burned by bombs. ... They saw in their eyes US soldiers burning houses, killing innocent people, kids being scalded by napalm bombs, the US embassy being attacked at the center of Saigon, US soldiers dragging the bodies of comrades They were wondering how those violent acts could be allowed to happen, what US soldiers had been sacrificing for and how Americans would bring democracy to Vietnam. ... By Monday noon Monday (5/4), tension culminated when soldiers opened fir...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hitler was thrown in jail for his attempt to overthrow the government, but only served nine months of his 5-year sentence. ... He ordered the murders of many Germans who did not agree with his ways, and had others carted to concentration camps where they were slaughtered. ... Many of them were beaten, half starved, given houses not fit for cattle to live in, and forced to work morning and night. ...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write about the bombing of Dresden. He was never able to write the book. When he thinks about Dresden's place in his memory, he always recalls two things: a dirty limerick about a man whose penis has let him down, and "My Name is Yon Yonson," a song which has no ending. ...

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• Grade Level: High School