... controlledmost of northern China.22 WorldWar II: BiographiesWW2b.qxp 7/30/03 4:09 PM Page 22AAllies: The countries who fought against Germany, Italy, andJapan during WorldWar II. The makeup of the Alliedpowers ... Catholicchurch.1998 Fred Korematsu is awarded the Presidential Medal ofFreedom, the highest civilian honor in the UnitedStates.xxiv WorldWar II: BiographiesHideki Tojo at his war crimes trial.(National ... Cataloging-in-Publication DataHowes, Kelly King World War II: Biographies / Kelly K. Howesp. cm.Includes biographical references and index.ISBN 0-7876-3895-1 World War, 1939-1945 Biography. I. TitleD736.H69...
... Qualified to Serve: Major League Stars’ Military Experiences during WorldWarII 976 What Might Have Been: The Impact of World WarII on the Careers of Major Leaguers 126Conclusion 143Notes 145Name ... entered WorldWar II. As early as its Christmas Day 1941 issue,The Sporting News was reporting that the proceeds from the All-Stargame of the following year would go directly toward various war ... with little success.Another of the great military baseball organizers who thrived dur-ing WorldWarII was Maj. Roscoe “Torchy” Torrance of the UnitedStates Marine Corps. In civilian life, Torrance...
... 1410.15Coming to war land10 John Ellis, Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in WorldWar I (New York:Pantheon Books, 1977); Eric J. Leed, No Man’s Land: Combat and Identity in World War I (Cambridge: ... constitute a hidden legacy of the Wrst World War. In scholarship on the First World War, the Eastern Front has remainedto a great extent the ‘‘Unknown War, ’’ as Winston Churchill called itnearly ... Harold Vedeler, The World in the Crucible, 1914–1919 (New York: Harper & Row, 1984); Holger H. Herwig, The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914–1918 (London: Edward Arnold,1997).4...
... eighth century B.C., in the days of Tiglath-pileser III. of Assyria, and Sharduris III. of Armenia, that Isræl, under Jehoash, and his son Jeroboam II. ; inspired by the exhortations of Elisha the ... a war of five years. The XVIIIth Dynasty was inaugurated by the Pharaohs, whose policy was so aggressive that Egypt, attacked by enemies from various quarters, and roused, as it were, to warlike ... important position among them when Thutmosis III. died in the fifty-fifth year of his reign. Of his successors the most prosperous was the renowned Amenothes III., who is immortalised by the wonderful...
... of WorldWar I, thesesimmering tensions sparked another war, WorldWar II, whichreturned death and destruction to the continent of Europe andto battlefields all over the world. World War ... WorldWar I: Biographies. World War I Reference Library World War I: Biographies is only one component of athree-part WorldWar I Reference Library. The other two titlesin this set are:• World ... http://www.linksnorth.com/canadahistory/canadaandworldwar1.html(accessed May 2001).“The First World War. ” Veterans Affairs Canada. [Online] http://www.vacacc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar (accessed May2001).18 World War...
... into the home once the war was over as had been done after WorldWar I. It had now been recognised that here was a strong workforce that could be utilised long after the war had ended.Women were ... order to win the war. The film also had a second equally important role. Toproject an image of Britain across the world. Whilst most films were open for consumption on the world market, few ... of love and looking forward to a post war society. The fact that women should be relied upon to be glamorous and feminine was a further underlyingfeature and, once the war was over they could,...
... “hip” titles such as WorldWar Z” or “Z War One.” I personally dislike this last moniker as it implies an inevitable“Z War Two.” For me, it will always be “The Zombie War, ” and while manymay ... 2006.Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataBrooks, Max. World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war / Max Brooks.—1st ed.1. War Humor. I. Title.PN6231. W28B76 2006813'.6—dc222006009517ISBN ... labor.www.ThreeRiversPress.com00000000011111111112222222222333S3N3CONTENTSINTRODUCTION1WARNINGS4BLAME45THE GREAT PANIC68TURNING THE TIDE105HOME FRONT USA137AROUND THE WORLD, AND ABOVE187TOTAL WAR 270GOOD-BYES328www.ThreeRiversPress.comYonkersIllustration...
... proposed war bonds” and World War II- era war bonds, the question has been raised whether or not the issuance of war bonds during the Second WorldWar serves as a good model for a new war bond.” ... proposed war bonds” and World War II- era war bonds, the question has been raised whether or not the issuance of war bonds during the Second WorldWar serves as a good model for a new war bond.” ... summary, the prior war bonds program in the Second WorldWar is a problematic model for Iraq/Afghanistan war bonds.” This report will not be updated. War Bonds in the Second World War: A Model...
... was a war of classes as well as of factions; on the one side the yeomanry and traders, on the other the nobles and the clergy. The corresponding war of the Fronde in France was not a class war ... force of arms, to establish a great empire on the Continent. The effect of the successes of Edward III. and Henry V. was to make France for a time a province of England. A French king was brought ... others. On the death of Louis XIII., his queen, Anne of Austria, owed her acquisition of the regency to the Parlement of Paris. Anne was obliged to continue the war with Spain, in which the...