... how their relationships that lasted a lifetime were formed. These bonds are so strong, the men are willing to die for one another. The book is important because it is part of our United States history. Courageous men sacrificed their lives to put a halt to Hitler's evil and hatred in Europe. ... This book recognizes the true valor and heroism of the men, even through danger and seemingly impossible circumstances. They meant something to someone. They were part of ... life in the army can be and how trying the long challenging (both mental and physical) days can be away from one's country...

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IB History Book Review: Hiroshima by John Hersey 1) This story relates to America dropping the A-bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. It tells the story, of six different inhabitants of Hiroshima, 2 doctors, 2 women, and 2 ... that are shocking, controversial, and that will leave a lasting effect on me. Also if the story is related to something true, it catches me completely. Therefore, I very much enjoyed this book. I appreciated the way that Hersey told the story through these 6 characters, it created a sort of view from the inside, first-hand, of everything that was happening, from various differen...

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... until anyone perceives the potential problem, further delay until the problem is widely perceived, and still further delay until corrective action is taken." (Bodley p. 9) One of the objectives of the book is to look at the problems of the world through an anthropological perspective in order to get a good look at what is happening to our society. Bodley believes that the ... . The system is actually quite effective if there is enough land to allow sufficient fallow time, so that the surrounding land can recover. This system is also mentioned in Faust's book, and Faust agrees that the sw...

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... sniper mainly torments and teases the Marines, not doing severe harm. After serving as a leader he becomes the Assistant Adjutant at the Headquarters base camp. The book then describes the everyday lives of the Marines at Headquarters. After a while, Caputo goes back to being a Platoon leader, and the war involves much more ... after Caputo's experience in this tragic war. It received numerous reviews, most of which were good. According to www.barnesandnoble.com, it was the book that shattered America's deliberate indifference to the fate of the men it sent to fight in the jungles of Vie...

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... from the 1880's to relative present, dividing the periods into "power," "culture," and "economics." I will begin by presenting a brief summary of the book, followed by a critique on the information presented and the way it was presented. I will conclude my paper with a conclusion of how the information Iriye ... the 1930's. He does however touch on the "cultural" propoganda that Japan spread throughout occupied Chinese Territory. The third major section of the book focuses on the economic ties between the two countries. Japan was disarmed by the occupation forces, preventing that avenue o...

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... Treaty Organization (NATO) as a defense alliance. In 1950, President Harry S. Truman named Eisenhower to command the NATO forces. At the end of the book, it gives Eisenhower's thoughts about if he should become president and his campaigning plans. Review as historical literature The source John Gunther used to get quotations ... from was Crusade in Europe. Other sources used to make the book were "The Eisenhowers at Home and Aboard," by John Denson; "Optimist in Arms," by Andre Laguerre; A Soldier's Story, by J.D. Bradley; Eisenhower Speaks, ... like the outline because it is an easy w...

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... The novel is narrated from the point of view of Sayuri Nitta, a retired geisha, whom the author had interviewed. Furthermore, as for the purpose of this book, the author states that, "There may well be no better record of the strange life of a geisha than the one Sayuri offers" (2). The setting of ... (294). After having become the Chairman's mistress, she was no longer considered a geisha, and that was where the "freedom" comes in. Overall, the book does a good job at informing the reader about what the life of a geisha was like. The author obviously had done extensive research on gei...

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... the Russians would never allow Hitler to destroy an entire population. Wiesel also writes a great deal about God. He focuses a good portion of the book on God Himself. Being a firm believer in God and the meaning of God, Wiesel believed that He would not allow this infiltration of the ... German community to overtake the Jewish community. His faith slowly diminishes as the book proceeds. His faith in God becomes no longer apparent. He often questions God and why He is allowing the Germans to torture and destroy ... are questioned as well. I have heard people's thoughts about the entire...

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... most extreme forms of which would include instances in which people have been executed for beliefs. In Number of Stars by Lois Lowry, the book primarily focused on the strategic events of the Holocaust during World War 2 and the discrimination of the Jewish ethnic group done by Adolf ... conclusion, discrimination has several key affects and issues around the world. It could lead to many consequences and may lead to genocide. Lois Lowry book, Number the Stars, showed how the Jewish ethnic group faced discrimination and injustice during the second World War. The purpose of writing Number ...

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... her to be an alcoholic wreck. The final, and most important struggle displayed in The Wars is the war that Ross constantly fights with failure. The book is filled with little goals that Ross sets for him-self to achieve, but rarely does he ever accomplish them. The actual war itself is quite foreshadowed ... One of the more apparent battles fought within The Wars is the one that Robert Ross has between his sensitivity and his responsibility. All throughout the book we see Robert put into situations where he is forced to do something that his enormous sensitivity would not normally allow ...

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... be accounted as the evils of war and the squadron's compliance to the wrong doings. Catch-22 distinctly depicts a certain loss of individuality among the soldiers of Pianosa. Although the book starts with a variety of characters, who take part in different activities that enrich their community, it shows a pattern of slowly diminishing individuality among them. This trend become more ... variety of characters who take part in different activities that enrich their community, it also shows a pattern of slowly diminishing individuality among them. This trend become more apparent as the bo...

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... in the end they were able to accomplish one important thing, staying alive. Throughout the Holocaust people were continually being de-humanitised. In Leo's book he shows even more ways dehumanization occurred. One way which it occurred was that Jews such as Leo had to become someone else to survive. ... knows. Was he a survivor to educate other people or did he have a bigger accomplishment waiting ahead of him. Another question I had after reading this book Leap Into Darkness was whether or not Leo still thinks about his family. Leo made it to America and was a survivor of the Holocaust b...

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... is a brief and very short summary of what happened in the Nanking massacre. This is necessary background information to further discuss and analyze Iris Chang's book, The Rape of Nanking. After reading The Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang, one can only hope that such atrocities against human kind will not ... and can not possibly be repeated. The book, which acknowledges and records such a horrific occurrence in human history, is the first step to make sure this part of history is not repeated. ... and sometimes outright denial of the Nanking massacre is the current stance for the culprit...

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... O"Donnell concluded that Hitler had shot himself in the temple and taken poison at the same time. In chapters five through seven of Petrova and Watson's book, they present the evidence that they found. In Moscow, Petrova found "the entire Hitler Archive" (Petrova and Watson 76). It included "six buff ... were performed and that a Russian investigation was performed a year after Hitler's death and produced "two fragments of a skull" (Petrova and Watson 85). The book then talks about the forensic evidence as well as Hitler's skull. A medical expert was brought in to examine the skull and th...

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... acts of war also live on forever. Billy repeatedly relives his time in Dresden, though at times it is simply because he is remembering it. The book has four main settings. Germany during world war two; Ilium, New York, before and after the war; an alien planet called Tralfamadore; and Vonnegut's ... actual life which he has placed inside the book. Each setting has a significant effect on the story. While Billy is in Germany, the reader learns of thousands of senseless deaths. While he is on Tralfamadore ... thing we can do is ignore the bad moments of our life, because we cannot change ...

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... Depression, so he explained to his children the realities of poverty, starvation, and the reality of war. In The Hunger Games, the first book of the series takes place in an arranged war, in which children are forced to kill one another for entertainment of the public. Collins' used ... the war tactics her father had taught her to write the battle scenes of the book, making them as surreal as possible. "I pick my tree carefully. A willow, not terribly tall but set in a clump of other willows, offering ... might have been among them. Instead, I learned to hunt" Katniss thinks (Collins, "...

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... Some of the values and norms that are questioned in the text are, nationalism, femininity, sexual morality and social standing. In the beginning of the book, we see that the women feel bonded by nationalism. This nationalism has brought them to the front line as ambulance drivers during World War I. Nellie ... "Smithy " Smith, the main character of this novel, questions this nationalism many times throughout the book. Even Tosh pokes fun at Smithy when she calls her "one of England's Splendid Daughters " (Smith 13) because of how Tosh sees Smithy's ... through the equally courageous ey...

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... two times in their lives when the choices they made had long term repercussions. Such is the case for Briony Tallis in Ian McEwan's book, Atonement. In the book, the concept of maturity is treated masterfully by the shift of a character's perceptions, belief systems and social realities. Bryony Tallis is ... the younger sister whose literary skills are often belittled by her older sister Celia. As the book opens, she creates a play for her cousins and herself to perform. The family's dynamics are at once set as the reader finds the mother ... . Besides using the characters to depict gen...

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... , and his fellow Army Air Corps officers, stationed on an imaginary island off the coast of Italy, through a period during World War II. The book is classified under the genre of tragic comedy, yet some people see it as one extreme or the other of tragedy versus comedy. Both tragedy and ... to point out (and skewer) the absurdities and contradictions of war- (Regher). The humorous or comedic scenes and instances in the book enhance the tragedy of the whole story by bringing realizations to the reader as well as to the characters. Not only does the humor decrease as ... of officers, are...

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... story, the readers develop within themselves a sense of darkness and fear, and at the same time a feeling of the surroundings and the tone of this book. Anthony Burgess suggests that a controlling government will cause a dark, turbulent, gloomy future using mood, using music, and using violence. A passionate lover of ... destroyed an angel," (CLC 61). Another of the elements used in Burgess's novel was the component of violence. An ever present topic in the book, violence is mostly what gives the novel its dark, pessimistic, somewhat "ghetto" mood, most probably more than the music or t...

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... are impossible, the writer tells of mass hysteria, destruction, panic, and the launch of missiles by every major country including the China, but the book does have one flaw in its attempt to stay as close to possible realistic outcome, when Pat Frank was writing this novel talk of the star ... of a notice by unnamed Gibson III personnel that nuclear holocaust was upon us, is far less believable and again strays away from Franks attempts to keep his book as "realistic" as possible. But never the less, the following mourning after the late night arrival of Randy's brother's family, war b...

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... where two young men, an Australian and an Englishman go to war and experience the horrors and misery of World War One. The book deals with various Australian cultures and identities which cover patriotism, war, and Australia-England relationships. David Malouf brings his representation of patriotism in ... working class presumably comes from. This stereotype Australian idea has been present for a long time, and is evident in the society when the book was published (1982). From a British satirical magazine Private Eye', there are examples from the Barry McKenzie comic strip, which ran for...

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... , he wanted to hear his father's story and make it into a book. It took Art many visits with his father to get the complete story. Art turned his book about his father's life in the Holocaust into a comic book, using mice to represent the Jews and cats to represent the Nazis. This book, "Maus" (mouse in German), took 13 years to create and finish ... literary event." The Boston Globe said, "A brutally moving work of art." "A remarkable work, awesome in its conception and execution at one and the same time a novel, a documentary, a memoir, and a comic book. Brilliant, just brilliant," sai...

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... constant competition in which death, jealousy and the loss of a best friend result. One could say that the most meaningful and bold theme in the book is the theme of transformation. And indeed the most obvious transformations were that of the main characters, Gene and Finny in Chapter four. Before the ... leg, and Gene feels like he died along with Finny. This is another example of the fusion between Gene and Finny. By the end of the book, Gene is no longer a conformist, and he doesn't follow everyone. He is not dependent on everyone else like he used to be. He ... out as being the bes...

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... constant competition in which death, jealousy and the loss of a best friend result. One could say that the most meaningful and bold theme in the book is the theme of transformation. And indeed the most obvious transformations were that of the main characters, Gene and Finny in Chapter four. . Before the ... leg, and Gene feels like he died along with Finny. This is another example of the fusion between Gene and Finny. By the end of the book, Gene is no longer a conformist, and he doesn't follow everyone. He is not dependent on everyone else like he used to be. He ... out as being the ...

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