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. ... The narrator promised that it won't be that kind of book, and that he'd call it The Children's Crusade. ... This book, he says, is a failure. ... He returned home for rest, but without warning one day he went to New York and claimed on the radio that he had been kidnapped by aliens called Trafalmadorians. ...

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The Little Prince which was written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and was published in 1943 during the World War II, is my favourite great book. ... From review of Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, This is a book that can be read by both children and adults. It has a message of love that is true and touching, and it is a book that has stood the test of time.1 Hence, how can The Little Prince obtain these good reviews and made a great effects even if it seems like only a book for children? ... The author wrote this book when he was an exile in the United States after the fall of France in World War...

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In 2013 China submitted a claim called the ten-dashed line map. ... At that time the claim to territories was called the nine-dotted line. ... China desires these islands, because it is at the corner of its so called 10-dashed dot line. ... In the book The Chinese Navy Expanding Capabilities, Evolving Roles, it is written by Saunders "According to one source, roughly half, or 1.5 million square kilometers, of the approximately 3 million square kilometers of maritime territory under China's legal jurisdiction is in dispute or already controlled by other regional nations " (Saunders). ...

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The Tet offensive was arguably the most controversial incident that took place during the Vietnam War. ... The lack of support from the home front has an effect on the progress of the war. Military victory and success are intangible without the support from the home front. ... "The war on the US home front provoked deepening bitterness and still remains hugely controversial. ... The motivation for the soldiers to fight for peace in Vietnam quickly weakened as a result of the movements disrupting peace on the home front.13 Why would the soldiers want to fight for peace in another nation when ...

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(The Century) But as the war dragged on, the subject of going home became a ghastly joke. ... "The spade will be as indispensable to a soldier as his rifle", wrote Ivan Broch in his book Is War Now Impossible? ... New technologies also made the battlefield a horrifically terrifying place. ... (The Century) Thus soldiers broke down into a mental disease which was then known as "shell shock" but is now categorized in the much broader disease called "posttraumatic stress disorder." ... (Hatt 57) Some were so disfunctional that they never again left hospitals or nursing homes. ...

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This of course would be the main response and fuel to bring about the military tribunals of Nuremberg and punish those most responsible for the atrocities that took place. ... The invasion of Poland would be what Hitler would refer to as expanding the German empire and providing what he called "Lebensraum". ... " (Eastwood, 2010, 1298) Streicher was also responsible for the publishing of the well-known Nazi propaganda newspaper Der Sturmer as well as a children's book series Der Giftpilz. ... In the children's book the Jews are described as a "poisonous mushroom...

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In the first month of the war, half a million men were recruited, while by February 1916, 2,631,000 men had volunteered for active service, while conscription, begun by the Derby scheme, placing all men aged 18-41 on a call-up list, led to only a further 2,339,000 being conscripted. ... The war suddenly seeming ironically similar to the soldier in Disabled, (who) liked "a smear of blood down his leg to please his Meg" the poem showing at a stroke how effective the recruiting offices were in their quest for blood that would be "poured down shell-holes." 4) The postcard in source E, is atyp...

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Byran labels the resulting movies "the noble-grunt film," as generic narratives that feature "the gradual deterioration of order, the disintegration of idealism, the breakdown of character, the alienation from those at home, and finally, the loss of all sensibility save the will to survive." ...

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During the war efforts at the home front had to be made in order for the war to be a victorious one for America and the Allies. Women had to work in order to keep things running efficiently at home. ... These men were called the "doughboys". ... Woodrow Wilson had proposed treaty of terms called the Fourteen Terms to end the war. ... The treaty called for Germany to be stripped of its armed forces and a lot of its territory; it also forced them to pay high war damages. ...

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Therefore I decided to look at the early years of the Cold War and to see where the change in attitude had come from, and how both Truman and Eisenhower's government used American exceptionalism to rally support at home and as part of their policies in international engagement. ... Interestingly the first scholarly mention of the term American exceptionalism actually comes from a man called Max Lerner in his book titled "America as a Civilization".13 He mentions that one of the main institutions that is singled out as the root of American exceptionalism, is the constitution. .....

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All of these things seemed to create weak soldiers who were likely to succumb to a major yet unforeseen and at the time unknown illness called combat exhaustion. ... It did bother soldiers that they were away from home, family, and the United States for extended periods of time. ... One soldier always carried a book from the states with him and read it repeatedly, claiming that the book was his "companion" during hard times of the war. ...

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By the time of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young soldiers who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history of war to write letters home describing war in all its unheroic horror. ... Modernism is essentially post-Darwinian: it is a search to explain mankind's place in the modern world, where religion, social stability and ethics are all called into question. ... He brought home to British poets the significance of French experimental symbolists like Rimbaud, Verlaine, Laforgue, and Mallarme, and observed that with them ...

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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. ... Hitler wished to eliminate this racial disparagement in phase one of his program, thus allowing for the supreme goal of attaining Lebensraum.(5) Through his reign he was of course subject to "forces at work, both in and outside Germany, conditioning the framework of Hitler's actions, which naturally, did not take place in a vacuum as a free expression of au...

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Klara died when Hitler was 19, and from then onwards, he had no relatives willing or able to support him.1909,Hitler left his home to seek his fortune in Vienna. ... He continued to live in places such as youth hostels full of prostitutes, cranks, outcasts, and transients. ... Roehm advocated the primacy of the military and wanted to incorporate the party's preliminary units called the SA or the Storm Troopers into his secret army. ... In here is where he wrote is famous book Mein Kampf. ...

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