The book is only thirteen chapters long and thoroughly explains how to approach warfare, terrain and how to handle spies. ... Unlike most of the book so far, the thirteenth chapter has specifications in it that are still being used today. ... Sun Tzu finishes his book with these sentences. ... In 1861, the United States broke into the North and South, or Union and Confederates, respectively. ... These decisions, specifically, relate to the third and thirteenth chapter of the book. ...

• Word Count: 2957
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Vietnam had been divided into two, in the midst of a communist administration in the North under Ho Chi Minh and an egalitarian government in the South under Ngo Dinh Diem. ... Despite their rivalry for leadership of the communist bloc of nations, the Soviet Union and China collaborated to support North Vietnam's effort to destroy South Vietnam. ... They finally had to pull out of South Vietnam after one million Vietnamese as well as nearly 60, 000 Americans lost lives and the administration incurred severe backlash at home (Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, chapter 3). ... These Panthers carrie...

• Word Count: 2185
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. ... He was never able to write the book. ... That night, he read a book by Erika Ostrovsky. ... Now, he presents us with his war book. ... This book, he says, is a failure. ...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

"1984", a book written by George Orwell, had increased anticommunist beliefs with a glimpse of what the future could be. ... McCarthyism was one of the worst chapters in American history, destroying many families all in the name of popularity and a power hunger. ... The Korean conflict ended at the 38th parallel dividing the north and the south. ... The Government did not want to fully support civil rights at the time as it was widely unpopular in the south and they were afraid of losing the southern vote. ...

• Word Count: 1786
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The New American reported in its December 13, 1993 issue Birch once wrote in a poem that he desired to "live slowly, to relax with my family before a glowing fireplace ... to enjoy a good book ... to reach the sunset of my life sound in body and mind, flanked by strong sons and grandsons."" ... In New England, headquarters of the John Birch Society, every state but Vermont and Maine had at least doubled its number of chapters. ... In the South, the John Birch Society saw more growth in towns and villages than big cities like Little Rock. ...

• Word Count: 2226
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Hitler did have a foreign policy program that he laid down, however sickening it was, in 1925 with the writing of Mein Kampf.(4) In this book Hitler described to all the world his three main foreign policy intentions. ... He was willing to do almost anything to gain allies, which at that time meant Italy, even renouncing German claims to South Tyrol. ... Hitler wastes no time and on the very first page of his book mentions the "moral right to acquire foreign soil and territory" and continued: "The sword is then the plow, and from the tears of war there grows the daily bread of gene...

• Word Count: 8102
• Approx Pages: 32
• Grade Level: High School