On September 29, they came across a mass grave of South Korean men, women and children killed execution-style. ... Ignoring reports of sightings of soldiers believed to be Chinese, he proceeded to the Yale river, where Mao had dispersed troops into North Korea. ... On the field, US troops were involved in the longest retreat in US history, 120 miles from the Yale river to south of the 38th parallel in less than 1 and a half weeks. ...

• Word Count: 1256
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Alvin York was born in Pall Mall Tennessee on December 13, 1887, the third of 11 children born to William and Mary York. ... Alvin's unit, 328th Inf, in connection with the attack of the 90th Div against the Bois-le-Pretre, advances on the west of the Moselle River, and, in contact with the right of the 360th Inf (90th Div), enters Norroy, and reaches the heights just north of that town where it consolidates its position. ... Alvin's vision was for a school open to any and all underprivileged Tennessee children who wished to pursue an education and proposed that the school provide vo...

• Word Count: 1575
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The official history of the Ming had described how the Portuguese used to boil and eat Chinese children. ... The Chinese themselves were drastically unprepared for an external war, the military was very underdeveloped and some of the methods they used were very primitive, such as stretching huge iron chains across the river to stop British ships from passing through. ...

• Word Count: 1759
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Its set in a small town called For Repose, between Pensacola and Tampa Florida were the Brother of a SAC Officer, Mark Bragg's Brother Randy lives and as the story picks up the United States and the Soviet Union are on the brink of war so he wires Randy that he is sending his wife and two children to live him as he lives in Omaha write in the middle of the Northeast infamous "Silo Belt." ... They began to be self sufficient in as little as a month though the book is not clear they survive on town gardens and fish from the near by river. ...

• Word Count: 1812
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

[He recorded that he had instructed Stimson to use the bomb] so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children... ... After the Hiroshima bomb ignited at 8:15 in the morning, women ran shrieking into the rivers, with their melting skin hanging off them like shreds of their kimonos. ... Approximately 70,000 men, women and children, most of them non-milita...

• Word Count: 2170
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

While it was a short stay, he fought in the battle of Omdurman in 1898, and wrote two books about the experiences he'd had while there, one called The Story of the Malakand Field Force in 1898 and The River War in 1899. ... They were married later that year in 1908, and together they had five children, Mary Soames, Randolph Churchill, Diana Churchill, Marigold Churchill and Sarah Churchill. ...

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

People, including children, were instantly vaporized only to leave behind a heap of carbon. ... The atomic blast on August 6, 1945, resulted in 135 000 casualties and almost completely destroyed the city, which lies on six small islands in the Ota river delta. ...

• Word Count: 2436
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School