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The Tides of War by Steven Pressfield

dropping bombs from 30,000 feet or sitting in a headquarters building and pushing a button to annihilate soldiers thousands of mil...

Comparative Analysis of 'Aeneid' by Virgil and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In six pages this paper compares these two classical works in terms of plot, characterization, setting, thematic portrayals of war...

Analyzing the Iraq War through Works by Plato and Aristophanes

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

Causes and Effects of the U.S. Civil War

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...

Mexican American War/Lincoln's Slavery Position

soldiers attacked a US patrol, and Taylor sent a message to Polk that read "Hostilities may be considered commenced" (Zinn 151). M...

Changing the World

arose a class of professional officers who "tended to dominate the civil authorities" ("Causes of World War I"). In addition, all ...

"MONUMENTS MEN" AND UNDERSTANDING CULTURE

artists from 13 nations to "save as much of the culture of Europe as they could during combat" (Edesel, 2009, 50). Basically, the ...

The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill

but they hoped to avoid it. In 1938, then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to meet with Hitler, and signed the Mu...

British Intervention in “Arab Street”

and unsettled as it is today, but it does seem to have been a source of concern for decades. This paper summarizes and analyzes th...

Personality Theory and the Jewish Holocaust

Personalists like John MacMurray study the relationships that emerge in the state of being a purpose, in internal aspects...

World War I and the Roles Played by Women

living American veterans of World War I (Smith 5C). When the war broke out, Frost signed up for the adventure (5C). In those days...

British Morale in World War II and the Role of Information

the Psychological Study of Social Issues in the 1950s sought to analyze the matter, but faced the endemic difficulty of separating...

Global Security and Safety Following the Cold War

in the Cold War, therefore, would not come without a great expense to both powers. When the Cold War...

German Propaganda During the First World War

In five pages this paper examines how Germany utilized the news media and posters for their propaganda campaigns during World War ...

World War I and the East African Conflict Between the British and the Germans

own countries as they had always been. If you are a member of a royal family at this time in Europe, the least you want to do is ...

JFK's Vietnam Mistake

Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...

Eisenhower Years and Reflections of Its Poltics and Culture

Also Progressive Los Angeles the 50s, 2001). Just when the average working stiff had made up his mind relevant to issues s...

Impact of the Vietnam War and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

In five pages this report examines how lives were impacted by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in a consideration of ...

The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig

The pre world war period is examined in an overview of The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig in a paper consisting of seven pages...

Wartime and the Rights of the Individual

a great deal of ability to open doors, but this impedes the freedom of the people of the United States. While it has happened in r...

First World War and British Military Leadership

meant the sacrifice of thousands of their own men in failed attacks) (MacKenzie, 1990). This also meant that the leadership had no...

Public Support for World War II and Vietnam

"just war" or a "war that had to be fought," given the aggression of both Germany and Japan, and the extermination of millions of ...

Art and Recruitment: World War I, Flagg, and Christy

This was all before he had received any formal training in the arts other than his studies at the Art Students League in New York ...

American Army and the 1918 Spanish Influenza Outbreak

In fifteen pages this paper discusses epidemiology, problematic prevention and treatment associated with the epidemic of Spanish I...

Asia's Continuing Quest for Justice for the Comfort Women

Recent news has focused attention on the abduction into sexual slavery of great numbers of women from various Asian countries duri...

First World War and Women

perform their work in France. The onset of war in Europe caused many American women to willingly spend their holidays abroad. ...

Post Second World War Global Affairs and U.S. Government Philosophies

and that it matters little whether the person filling that office can be moral or has any acceptable level of personal integrity, ...

Weapons of World War II From Rifles To The Atom Bomb

What led to the evolution of such a deadly means of irreversible destruction. If World War I was the war to end all wars ....

First World War and British Air Power

Morrow states, "Initial hesitation need not necessarily have proved damaging: The German government, soon to sponsor one of the m...

Herodotus: Reliable And Comprehensive Account Of The Persian Wars?

then took this reality and spinned it to contest the uncontestable and knew there could be no definitive answer, which he believed...