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Prisoners of War: A Story of Four American Soldiers
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Prisoners of War: A Story of Four American Soldiers. 2005. Produced by erica Heilman and Gregory L. Sharrow. The vermont Folklife Center, Cd (1).
The year 2005 marked the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second world war. In Canada, 2005 was declared the Year of the veteran and was publicly commemorated in symbolic forms such as monuments, specially minted currency, and the opening of the war Museum in ottawa. efforts in both Canada and the United States to record the history of ...
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The Origins of the First World War.
History Review
; ... conceptual and methodological problems that it is impossible, in a limited space, to do much more than point them out. The good news is that students are rarely, if ever, asked to explain the origins of the war. Typical exam questions are more limited: they ...
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WWI's 'rightful place': The organizers of a new museum in Kansas City hope to show how World War I marked a turning point in American history and set in motion waves of turmoil and transformation still felt today.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
; ... Affairs; World Book Online soswanson@tribune.com Copyright (c) 2006, Chicago Tribune Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write ...
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The Suicidal Embrace: Hitler, the Allies, and the Origins of the Second World War
The Journal of Psychohistory
; The Suicidal Embrace: Hitler, the Allies, and the Origins of the Second World War, David Beisel. New York: Circumstantial Productions, 2003. xvi, 399 pp. $18.00 (Paperback) The task Professor Beisel undertakes in his long awaited book is an ambitious one: to trace the emotional bases of the
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PROJECT WOULD RECORD WORLD WAR II MEMORIES.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Time is running out to save the incredible stories that Washington's World War II veterans carry in their memories. ``Our numbers are rapidly dwindling said William Merifield of Olympia, who wants the state to record the veterans' stories. ``We need to work quickly, or many memories of the war that
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Filming the First World War: Jonathan Lewis and Hew Strachan point out the daunting challenges and exciting opportunities involved in producing a new major TV series.(Today's History)
History Today
; THE FIRST WORLD WAR, as a subject for television, has acquired a lot of baggage over the past forty years. Our film researcher, Alison McAllan, was told by some colleagues on starting out that her task would be easy, because there wasn't a lot of footage to chose from and, of what there is,
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GENERATION GAP Authors say Americans feel less connected to Iraq conflict than they did to World War II
Albuquerque Journal
; ... authors saw few similarities, Polk said he was struck by the recent news stories about the controversial possibility that former Saddam ... water in what is known as the Bataan Death March. "When I see news reports about the war in Iraq, I think about so many of our national ...
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SACRIFICE IS HONORED; Memorial a lasting tribute to heroes who saved the world and changed it.(WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL)
The Washington Times
; ... of American conscripts would bloom to 8 million, culled from what Mr. Krammer calls, in a slightly irreverent tweaking of NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw's tribute book, the bored generation. They were coming out of the Great Depression, Mr. Krammer says. Here ...
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OPERATION ENDURING ANALOGY: WORLD WAR II, THE WAR ON TERROR, AND THE USES OF HISTORICAL MEMORY
Rhetoric & Public Affairs
; Since 1999, George W. Bush has consistently evoked the legacy of the "greatest generation." Moreover, since September 11, 2001, Bush's use of World War II analogies has intensified. Such analogies capitalize on post-Cold War historical memory and lend credibility to the war on terrorism, yet they
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Sacrifice Is Honored: Memorial a Lasting Tribute to Heroes Who Saved the World and Changed It.(World War II)
World and I
; ... culled from what Krammer calls, in a slightly irreverent tweaking of NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw's tribute book, the bored generation. They were coming ... called war on terror, so I suppose we shall soon find out. (c) 2004 News World Communications Inc.
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World War I to World War IV: a democratic-economic perspective.(ECONOMICS ARTICLES)
Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research
; ABSTRACT This paper analyses the idea that the world has not only experienced World War I and World War II but has also fought World War III and is currently waging World War IV. Socio-political and economic factors are applied to the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries to make the case that these
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