Ambrose next chapter sets up the obvious dilemma of the Allies on their choice of the location and time for the major offensive. ... These first three chapter and the following eight chapters discuss both sides" efforts to prepare for the intense battle right up to go time. The book can be broken down into three major sections before D-Day, during D-Day, and a brief look at the repercussions of Operation Overlord. Ambrose in turn through all of this prepares each section chapter by chapter that intertwine both cold hard facts, and personal narrative that gave me the reader a chance to actually...

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There had always been events that played major roles for changing the balances in the world throughout history. Unfortunately, most of the time, these events were nothing but the cruel wars that resulted in the loss of millions of people and in waste of huge amount of money. Like every other war, World War 1 took many lives and money and changed the balances in the world. Actually, these big wars are usually emerging to change the balances because some sides don't like the world to stay as it is. In the Gallipoli War, which was a part of the World War 1 there were different sides whi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Christopher Browning writes a detailed history of the soldiers of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101 and their role in the mass murder of Jews in Poland during the Second World War in his book, Ordinary Men. ... As he notes in the beginning of the book, "the Holocaust took place because at the most basic level individual human beings killed other human beings in large numbers over an extended period of time. ... The majority of the book tells the story of the middle-aged German soldiers based on their own testimony from legal proceedings well after World War II had ended. The most impor...

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An unprecedented event such as this only demonstrates Australia's detachment from the English empire, and it seems laudable that John Howard should even consider a replacement for the disgraced position of Governor-General, if he does, as John Pilger says in his book A Secret Country, Australian democracy will be dependent again on the caprice of one unelected, unaccountable man and the degree of his malleability. ... John Pilger addresses this issue in great detail in his book A Secret Country, now a standard on the high school curriculum. Pilger devotes two chapters, The Struggle f...

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• Has Bibliography
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Fashion is one of the few areas where Marling's book depicts the "growing generational divide" of the 1950s, and the "sack dress" was at the center of that divide (41). ... Although her Picture Cook Book, first published in 1950, remained a best seller throughout the decade, the Betty Crocker character aged rapidly in the 1950s "a new makeover transformed her into an older and wiser, more mature and motherly figure. ... Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book emphasized such time saving devices. ...

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He begins his assault against Jews in the chapter "Transformation into an Anti-Semite": "By their very exterior you could tell that these were no lovers of water[]all of this could scarcely be called very attractive; but it became positively repulsive when, in addition to their physical uncleanliness, you discovered the moral stains on this chosen people." ... In many different places throughout the book, Hitler takes great pains to identify Jews with everything wrong in Germany. ... From this point onward, throughout the book Hitler would take great care in associating Jewishness with Commun...

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The book scrutinizes human behaviour in its most natural and un-conditioned shape and proves to be one big allegory. ... The book travels alongside the boys into their descent into savagery and reveals underlying conflicts of human behaviour that are covered by civilization. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate