book review: to Lose a Battle

... gives the reader the reason and intentions that such characters had upon arriving in Texas. But a majority of the reason this book was written was to lose the myths of the story behind the Alamo, and to let the facts shine. In the beginning of the book, Long describes the features of Texas. He describes the land and rivers with rich description allowing the reader ... to see Texas's nature by using one's imagination. He then goes on to describe the political background and the conflict that occurs between the ... of the book. In the book review done by Paul Andrew Hutton, Mr. Hutton be...

• Word Count: 1891
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Book Review The Hobbit By J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973), a former professor of English at the University of Oxford, was one of the great authors of his day. Though he did not receive very much recognition in his lifetime, Tolkien is now being recognized due to the success of a trilogy of ... spiders and imprisonment by elves, and thereby earns the respect of the dwarves. The second part of the book begins when the troop finally finds the home of the dragon they seek. They manage to awaken the dragon, which then goes on a rampage on a local town of humans. The dragon i...

• Word Count: 501
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... exploitation and force new ideas upon these Pueblo Indians. The books intention was to shine new light on the external and internal struggles of both the Spanish and the Pueblo Indians. The following is a critical review of the facts stated in his book. This is followed up by a review of the book itself. The Native Americans of the New Mexican area before the seventeenth century ... , and the Keresan. These groups of people faced challenges everyday living in the conditions that they inhabited, but when the outside force of the Spanish got involved all hell broke lose. The natives faced ...

• Word Count: 1488
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... , they put together a historical review of the Civil War in the Ozarks. In my opinion a "Reb" and a "Yank" (respectively) getting together to write on such an event in history is remarkable. Although, I would imagine that is why the book sticks with so many facts, rather than to approach the aspects of the lives involved. The book would have been more enjoyable to read, if they had ... mingled a bit more of life's stories within the battle events described. According to the book, "Phillip W. Steele and Steve Cottrell have extensively researched the battles that took ... . The story goes ...

• Word Count: 1032
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... gun fire from Nelson but when she came along side the Victory and was starting to pass her Nelson waved the gunship to the back so that he could be in the first line of battle. "Nelson allotted the Temeraire the position immediately astern of the Victory (Nelson's boat ... harmony to the magnificent sunset, by anchoring or pulling the sun down into the shallows, thus making the painting seem more real than imaginary. In The Morning Chronicle's review about the picture first showing in 1839 it quotes another piece of Campbell's writing about this ... sunshine plays an increasingly impor...

• Word Count: 4342
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... had clashed with the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong, leading to combat that proved that this war was going to be one they could not lose and would have to fight hard for a victory. The second section of the book is called "The Officer in Charge of the Dead." In ... this part, Caputo tells about when he was reassigned from engaging in combat with his brigade to sitting at ... other American soldiers' respect.   Caputo and his fellow troops had wished and hoped for World War II type battles but instead learned to detect boobytraps and how to survive and make their way through...

• Word Count: 806
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... Bestwood. Walter Morel has married a sensitive and high-minded woman better educated than him. She began to shrink from his lack of fine feeling and drunkenness; embittered, she turned their marriage into a battle. Morel, baffled and thwarted, was sometimes violent, while Mrs. Morel rejected him and turned all ... tour through the psychological evolution of the main character, Paul. Paul goes through a series of very realistic romances over the course of the book. In the end he realizes that his most dominating relationship is that which he has with his mother. This reaffirms the critic'...

• Word Count: 4216
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

THE BOOK REVIEW OF: THE RAPE OF NANKING Richard HS 208.1 August 4, 2002 The Rape of Nanking, or the Nanking Massacre, officially started when imperial Japanese troops marched into Nanking on December 13, 1937. With prearranged orders "to kill all captives", the Japanese soldiers entered the city and arbitrarily killed men, women ... and burned. This 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 o...

• Word Count: 1855
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... . The unions and the city politics are all corrupt: It was a very close election that year, and the echoes of the battle reached even to Packingtown. The two rival sets of grafters hired halls and sets of fireworks and made speeches, to try to get the people interested in the matter. Although Jurgis did not understand it all, he knew enough by this time ... some canned meat that had been so bad he said he would rather eat hisold hat.? Roosevelt invited Sinclair to talk with him about the problems of the meat packing industry. In England, a young Winston Churchill wrote a highly favorable...

• Word Count: 4457
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School