The memoir The Forgotten Soldier tells a story of a soldier, which in many points of view, was fighting on the wrong side. Guy Sajer is a Nazi soldier in World War Two, half- German and half- French, one of many who fought for Hitler and the inspirational New World Order. Guy starts out as driver and guard of supplies for those at the front. His first experience of hardships as a soldier is when he gets an understanding of Russian winters. Bone chilling temperatures of forty below zero, guard duty and other simple tasks asked of him become
The Lost Battalion When word that a detachment from New York's own 77th Division had been surrounded by Germans in the Argonne Forest leaked out, a wily editor saw an opportunity to sell more papers and immediately dubbed the unit "The Lost Battalion." Over the next week, as the men held out in the face of overwhelming odds, the story of the "Lost Battalion" became the most widely reported episode of the war. It hardly mattered that the battalion wasn't a battalion at all and certainly wasn't lost. The group of some 500 men was made up of companies from two different battalions of the 154th Infantry Brigade, and headquarters knew the exact coordinates of the unit's location from the beginning of the siege. What did matter was that this group of determined men made a gallant stand reminiscent of the Alamo and Little Big Horn, and this one had a happier ending.
A quote from Private George Coppard, who survived the battle of the Somme “Hundreds of dead were strung out (on the barbed wire) like wreckage washed up to a high water mark. Quite as many died on the enemy wire as on the ground... It was clear that there were no gaps in the wire at the time of attack. The Germans must have been reinforcing the wire for months. It was so thick that daylight could barely be seen through it... How did the planners imagine that the Tommies would
Analyze the ways in which national and cultural i.d. in Alsace-Lorraine were perceived and promoted during the period from 1870-1919. The Alsace-Lorraine was a region that has been inhabited by both French and German people. Because of the switching in authority of this area between Germany and France, the people of the Alsace-Lorraine have a very unique culture that includes in part French and German characteristics. When the Alsace-Lorraine was ceded to Germany in 1871, the French culture was suppressed causing unease within the Alsatian people; yet once the Alsace-Lorraine became part of France yet again with the ending of WWI, the German traditions remained as well.
"Gettysburg The Movie" History Vs. Facts The epic American Civil War film "Gettysburg" released in 1993 was based upon the book written by author Michael Sharra "The Killer Angels" 1975. The story is told through a few of the major players in the battle, mostly general's Confederate commanding General Robert E. Lee, Con. General James Longstreet and Union Col. Joshua Lawerence Chamberlain. Although there were many courageous men during the fight Michael Sharra chose to illuminate these indivduals stories. The battle of Gettysburg was one of the turning points of the Civil War in America.
McVeigh was given an honorable discharge from the Army Reserve in May 1992. After leaving the army in 1992 he worked briefly as a security guard. The long hours in a dead-end job, the feeling that he didn't have a home, and his failure to establish a relationship with a woman brought McVeigh to the breaking point. He typically felt nervous around women. He decided that Buffalo New York was too liberal, so he decided to drive through America visiting his old army buddies.
Mametz Wood is a poem by Owen Sheers. It was made after he visited the site of a WW1 battlefield on the Somme in France. Walking through the field, Sheers noticed that shells, pieces of barbed wire and fragments of human bones were still to be found coming to the surface after so many years. Memories In the horror of finding the bodies of dead soldiers are presented in Mametz wood this is shown in the opening lines of Mametz Wood Sheers says that with the quote “,The wasted young turning up under their plough blades”. This suggests that the soldiers should not have died.
Punishment has taken many different forms throughout history. This essay looks at how punishment of offenders today has elements of Celtic and Roman approaches. According to Celtic philosophy of punishment, deterrence was used as a measure to prevent people from committing an offence as it is today. In Celtic times honour amongst the kinship was important and criminals were cast the lowest social status losing this honour and civil privilege. This loss of privilege still pertains to Britain today and although our prisons provide the incapacitation of offenders, social isolation in Celtic times had similar impact with loss of property, profession, religious rites and confinement to the tribal territory suffering their dishonour within their community.
Comparative Analysis: A Few Good Men A Few Good Men, directed by Rob Reiner, starts off with a scene about two men, Private First Class Louden Downey and Lance Corporal Harold W. Dawson, giving a Private First Class William T. Santiago a code red; the Private ends up dying a few hours later. Later in the movie, Colonel Nathan R. Jessup meets with his two senior officers, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Andrew Markinson and Lieutenant Jonathan Kendrick, struggling to make a decision: give Pfc. Santiago a transfer off the base, or ‘toughen him up’. Col. Jessup ends up keeping Pfc. Santiago on the base and gives orders to Lance Corporal Dawson to give Santiago a code red.
The house for the lost soul. 17-year-old Trey Fierce read the line of words carved on the wood plank on the wall absent-mindedly. It was a subtle depiction of everyone whose life thrown into this place; the facility for the mentally incompetent, the unbalanced person, the deranged - those were just a few of the names. His mother, along with her assistant, flanked him on both sides, clutching his hands firmly as if he would run and escape at any time. They walked past three patients, his friends for the past four months.