Essays about War Page 18

I Interviewed my Grandfather, Theodore Michael Tanin for my World War Veteran Report. I learned a lot of interesting and useful informationabout him, for example, what his job was like andthe conditions he was in everyday and how the waraffected him. Theodore was born on July 19, 1917 inMilwaukee, Wisconsin. The war that he was…

The French and Indian War was a war between the French and the English. It helped create the first attempt at unifying the English colonies in North America. The things that started the war were  religion, and walking over the Appalachian Mountains. It was called the French and Indian War because the French were allies…

Dads Boot, a War Movie to End Wars In Wolfgang Petersen film “Dads Boot”, takes the viewer on a trip about the horrors of what life was like inside a German U-boat during WI. Petersen sends an anti-war message throughout the film by having a Nazi crew that’s realistic and one that the audience isn’t…

Introduction             Professor Fred Anderson is considerably one of the pioneering historians who commenced in giving light to the importance of historical events and incorporating these for the benefit of the contemporary society.  Due to his aim in exploring the unprecedented historical perspectives of America and the significance that it may have made to shape…

If I Die in a Combat Zone is an intense personal account of Tim O’Brien’s tour of duty in Vietnam. He absolutely hated the fact of going to war. He starts off as a cocky college student, and through the course of the book, he changes. O’Brien uses very vivid descriptions of the terrain, weather…

One is the story of Peter Maass himself- a widely respected reporter for the Washington Post and a native Californian Jew. The book draws on the author’s experiences gained during his time as a journalist in Bosnia in 1992 to 1993 – merely a year, yet he saw a great deal. He was there when…

Journey’s End  is a drama which gives a realistic image of life in a First World War trench. Performed in 1928 when the acrimonious memories of war were still fresh, it made a profound impact on those who saw it. It was uncompromising and showed the atrocious truth to those who had been given the…

The novel ‘Generals die in bed’ by Charles Yale Harrison recounts the story of a young Canadian soldier’s encounters during World War I. As the story unfolds, the unnamed soldier’s experiences in the trenches become increasingly intense. The narrator and his fellow soldiers share one resolute belief: to simply survive amidst the horrors of war….

As usual, our traditional Civil War histories tell us assuring story of the victory, in an unavoidable fight, of the dynamic, free from slavery North over the traditional, enslaved South, demonstrating the freedom norms rooted in the nation’s heart. The Civil War was a complicated event in our history. Therefore historians often tried to describe…

When people look back and retrieve the First World War. they frequently remember the blackwash of Franz-Ferdinand. the sinking of the Lusitania. or the Zimmerman wire. Not frequently do they remember the function that Canada played in the war. However. Canadians were a important factor of the Allies’ success. Although Canada merely possessed two Navy…