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	World War 2 Timeline 1939-1945 - Worldwar-2.net
		By the evening of September 3rd, Britain and France were at war with Germany and within a week, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa had also joined the war.
		On land, sea and in the air, Poles fought Germans, Italians fought Americans and Japanese fought Australians in a conflict which was finally settled with the use of nuclear weapons.
		World War 2 involved every major world power in a war for global domination and at its end, more than 60 million people had lost their lives and most of Europe and large parts of Asia lay in ruins.
	www.worldwar-2.net (553 words)

	Casualties of War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Casualties of War is a 1989 war drama about the Vietnam War, starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn.
		The theme of Casualties of War is how normal moral behavior is discarded during war times and shows it in the extreme when soldiers become savages who can dehumanize innocent by-standers, and also about personal responsibility for maintaining that morality in extreme conditions.
		The film was a departure for Fox who had worked with light-hearted comedy up until that point; it proved he was capable of handling 'heavy' dramatic roles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Casualties_of_War_(movie) (443 words)

	Gamerz-Edge -- Casualties of War Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Casualties of War is the story of PFC Eriksson (Fox), an idealistic young soldier during the Vietnam War.
		Casualties of War also blunts its potential impact by effectively ignoring the concept of suspense, choosing to describe what will happen and then letting it unfold in excruciating detail.
		Casualties of War is presented in an anamorphic widescreen format, and has been remastered in high definition.
	www.gamerz-edge.com /dvd/reviews/casualtiesofwar.html (783 words)

	Casualty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Casualty (person), which refers to a person wounded or killed in a war or disaster
		Casualty (TV series) is a long-running UK television series, set in a hospital casualty department
		Casualty insurance is a type of insurance; the word casualty is often found in the name of insurance companies
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Casualty (132 words)

	Casualties of war: history, realism, and the limits of exclusion Journal of Popular Film and Television - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The representation of history in war films is a process of creating the past for the purposes of the present.
		Eriksson in Casualties of War and the innocent Chris, who comes of age in Platoon, are examples of the ideal hero.
		The idea of the duality of man, which is the basis of the reconstruction of the innocence of the soldier male in Platoon and Casualties of War, is satirized by Joker's uniform.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0412/is_n1_v22/ai_15695273 (1117 words)

	Amazon.com: Casualties of War: DVD: Michael J. Fox,Sean Penn,Don Harvey,John C. Reilly,Thuy Thu Le,John Leguizamo,Jack ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Casualties of War is probably the most insightful, thought-provoking Hollywood movie ever to deal with the Vietnam war, and one of the very finest war films ever made.
		The film follows a group of young soldiers, led by Penn on a mission in Vietnam, in which Sergeant Meserve (Penn) decides to kidnap a young Vietnamese girl whom he claims is VC so the soldiers can "have some fun" along the way of their new mission.
		While the film does an admirable job of trying to show the dilemma that Fox is facing, the viewer is ultimately left uncaring, due to the lagtime between the incident and the vindication that finally comes near the end of the film.
	www.amazon.com /Casualties-War-Michael-J-Fox/dp/B00005R23U (2409 words)

	Casualties of War - DVD - Title C Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Casualties of War : In even the greatest horror there is beauty.
		Based on a true story ‘Casualties of War’ is a heart-wrenching movie about one man’s struggle to beat the system and let justice prevail.
		The film follows a 5-man troop in the Vietnam War and centre’s around this troops abduction, rape and eventual murder of a young Vietnamese village girl.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /dvd-title-c/casualties-of-war (266 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Casualties Of War [1989]: DVD: Michael J. Fox,Sean Penn,Don Harvey,John C. Reilly,Thuy Thu Le,John ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Casualties of War came toward the end of the major decade cycle of 'Nam films- though the genre has been reactivated with films like the not bad/seen it before Tigerland and the hilarious, right-wing sub-Purple Hearts tosh of We Were Soldiers.
		This is one of De Palma's strongest films, hard not to associate him with the misogny and sub-Hitchcock nonsense of Dressed to Kill (where the female lead is murdered and has a noticeably similar name to a leading feminist writer!); De Palma is on stronger ground with a mostly male-cast.
		Casualties of War is one of the best Vietnam films, that with the passage of time warrants a place in this genre or the wider one of the war film.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Casualties-War-Michael-J-Fox/dp/B00005R0CS (953 words)

	Amazon.ca: Casualties Of War: DVD: Brian De Palma,Ennalls Berl,Darren E. Burrows,Michael J. Fox,Jack Gwaltney,Woody ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Casualties of War, despites some of its flaws, is quite faithful to the original text which was a true story.
		CASUALTIES OF WAR is one of many Vietnam War movies that came out in the late 80's as a result of the success of PLATOON.
		In some documentation of the making of this film, it was reported that Fox was unhappy with his character's lack of retaliation during the hazing sequences when he is branded a snitch.
	www.amazon.ca /Casualties-War-Brian-Palma/dp/B00005R23U (2031 words)

	Casualties of War movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		The horrors of war have never been the easiest subjects to approach but these are stories that have to be told and ‘Casualties of War’ tells one of the most tragic and disturbing ones.
		While there had been films before that dealt with war crimes but the abuse of prisoners during any conflict was always the domain of the enemy and not the US armed forces.
		With performances from the ensemble cast that are first rate, this is a film that takes the telling of war atrocities to a new level and that any side should answer for their crimes.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /dvdreviews/c/casualtiesofwar.htm (1169 words)

	Casualties of War (1989) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Casualties of War is a film set in the Vietnam War.
		This film has Michael J. Fox as a college-educated soldier in a team full of heartless, hardened soldiers.
		But where this film is different is that it does not show bits and pieces of mistreatment: it focuses on the mistreatment of one Vietnamese woman and carries it for over an hour.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0097027 (532 words)

	War Movies and War Propaganda: A Short Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		British war films of the 1950s, which generally glorified Allied achievements of World War II, were shown during the last period in which the country's cinema could be said to have a national audience and had much box office appeal.
		At an obvious level, the films mentioned form natural antitheatrical pairs because of their starkly conflicting conceptions of Franco (as a divinely chosen, heroic leader or a deceptive, calculating tyrant); the latter film in each respective pair was made, in some degree, asa political response to the former.
		Karma is the first film in a triology which will include films about the experience of a North Vietnamese soldier and his family and about an American soldier's experience, the first example of a cross-cultural attempt to interpret the war in film.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/Warfilmbib.html (14180 words)

	Casualties of War (UK - DVD R2) in Reviews > Video Discs at DVDActive
		Casualties of War is a harrowing, often distasteful look at the Vietnam War and the monsters that it could make out of the very men that fought in it.
		This is the new ‘director’s cut’ release of Casualties of War, which does not mean a great deal since fans of the movie will probably already know most of the extra sequences from the deleted scenes on the previous release.
		Casualties of War is a harrowing look at one particular real-life incident during the horror that was Vietnam.
	www.dvdactive.com /reviews/dvd/casualties-of-war.html (1993 words)

	Casualties of War review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Casualties of War" is based on a real wartime incident in which a squad of American soldiers kidnapped, raped and murdered a Vietnamese woman.
		The focus is not on war tactics but on one man's struggle to choose between right and wrong and to maintain his stance in the face of peer pressure.
		It reminds viewers that the soldiers themselves, many just young boys, are casualties of war as much as the enemy at which they shoot.
	home.earthlink.net /~lncook/Reviews/Caswar.htm (412 words)

	Salon.com News \| Casualties of war
		Advocates for the imminent war with Iraq say it will be a battle of liberation in which even significant numbers of civilian casualties will be acceptable, while opponents see it as industrial slaughter, in which all moral justification will be buried beneath piles of Iraqi corpses.
		During World War II, a war regarded by all of its combatants as one of national survival, an entire enemy nation, soldiers and civilians alike, was regarded as a legitimate target.
		Large numbers of civilian casualties, or individual horrors like Dresden or the firebombing of Tokyo, were seen as regrettable, but they did not cause participants or historians to alter their assessment of the moral status of the parties involved.
	archive.salon.com /news/feature/2003/03/20/casualties/index_np.html (518 words)

	Casualties of War movie review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It illustrates how war demonises in a stirring manner, while also showing that it doesn't need to be that way.
		War is the refuge of the lazy and the foolish.
		By not taking a position on the Vietnam War itself, and by illustrating the resistance Erikson runs into when he wants to do something right, the film goes beyond war and points to the failure of humanity's institutions as whole.
	www.ram.org /ramblings/movies/casualties_of_war.html (439 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Casualties of War
		A film, in fact, whose central real-life tragedy—a five-man Army unit in the shit in Vietnam pop off and kidnap a young Vietnamese girl with the express purpose of raping her, to the horror of the essentially Catholic group's resident Lutheran—reveals such turf wars as the venal egghead slapfests they are?
		The film begins and ends with Fox in a streetcar, and the Vietnamese girl he sees sitting on the other side while drifting in and out of sleep becomes the catalyst for the entire film's flashback structure.
		When he wakes up at the end of the film and flags the girl down to give her back a scarf she left behind (another dreamlike object of déjà vu), she sees the hurt in his eyes and surmises that she reminds him of someone and that he just awoke from a bad dream.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=2496 (685 words)

	Review: Casualties of War (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For all its scope and thematic pretensions, Brian De Palma's new film, Casualties of War, is claustrophobic and stultifying.
		The film is constructed as a nightmare, an overblown bad dream from which the protagonist (Michael J. Fox) cannot escape.
		Rabe has fashioned the character as a bit of a rube; throughout most of Casualties of War, Fox is called upon to be reactive.
	movieline.standard8media.com /reviews/casualtiesofwar.shtml (373 words)

	Casualties of War (1989)
		This is a true story of what happens in war when morality and ethics are tossed aside.
		Fox is excellent as the naive but ethical young man exposed to a "Nobody cares" atmosphere in the midst of war.
		The film not only shows what can happen to human beings when they let go of any sense of conscience, but it is also a metaphor of the amoral mentality that was behind the Viet Nam conflict and its aftermath.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0097027 (358 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Casualties of War
		Instead of focusing on the dynamics of the group as most war movies would, DePalma chooses to point his attention squarely on the plight of Eriksson, embroiling him in a suspense situation that feels as if it could have been drawn from one of the director’s many Hitchcock-influenced thrillers.
		The incidents that lie at the center of Casualties clearly warp the psyche of Eriksson, and DePalma’s serious treatment of his predicament is one of the most compassionate moves in his career.
		The equation of sanctioned and unsanctioned barbarism in the climactic moments of Casualties is about as damning an indictment of the way that humanity justifies immoral acts during war as I’ve seen.
	www.moviemartyr.com /1989/casualtiesofwar.htm (666 words)

	Amazon.com: Casualties of War (Unrated Extended Cut): DVD: Michael J. Fox,Sean Penn,Don Harvey,John C. Reilly,Thuy Thu ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In THIS film, the personalities are very recognizable as the very sort of young men who either enlisted or were drafted into that war.
		Casualties of War stars Michael J. Fox in one of his first "serious" roles as an actor, along with Sean Penn who is great in the film.
		While Casualties of War is definitely not a bad film, it had the unfortunate distinction of being released at the same time as Full Metal Jacket, Born of the Fourth of July, and Platoon.
	www.amazon.com /Casualties-War-Unrated-Extended-Cut/dp/B000ELL1R6 (2367 words)

	Leap In The Dark: Casualties Of War
		A cenotaph for the people from that locale who have died in the wars that our countries have fought memorializing their contribution to whatever cause was considered worth sending them off to die for.
		They exhort us to support our troops by not speaking dissent against the job they are doing, but what in turn are the governments doing to recognise the fact that son, husbands, and fathers aren't going to be coming home to their loved ones.
		One of the first of the new press laws that went into effect for the Iraqi war was that no one was allowed to film or take pictures of the soldiers being shipped home in the proverbial box.
	blogs.epicindia.com /leapinthedark/2006/04/casualties_of_war.html (1528 words)

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		Casualties of War is a bit of a mixed bag, though ultimately its good points more than outweigh its flaws.
		There are lots of touches, reminders of how the war affects those who are not directly involved, the pocket watch Mary's (now) dead brother gave her, the aggressive psychosis of the troopers at Hawkswick Hall, Briggs' tired determination to be patriotic.
		But in Casualties of War one of the greatest pleasures is watching the Doctor struggle with his feelings for Mary, it adds another layer of tension to an already discomforting book.
	www.pagefillers.com /dwrg/casu.htm (7187 words)

	Spirituality & Practice: Film Review: Casualties of War, directed by Brian DePalma
		This drama is based on a true incident during the Vietnam War reported by Daniel Lang in a 1969 article in The New Yorker.
		Casualties of War is Brian DePalma's 19th film, and it contains fine ensemble performances by the well-rounded cast.
		It is the very essence and reason of his being." The finale of Casualties of War testifies to our hopes that there are still a few ethical souls out there who believe that the weak must be protected and the rules of war upheld.
	www.spiritualityandpractice.com /films/films.php?id=3166 (370 words)

	Casualties Of War Movie -The 80s Rewind «
		The luscious photography in Causalities of War was by Stephen H. Burum.
		Casualties of War won the 'Peace' catagory from the Political Film Society (USA) in 1990.
		The film was shot in Kanchanabur (railroad bridge and river scenes) and Phuket in Thailand.
	www.fast-rewind.com /casofwar.htm (1059 words)

	A Fistful of Reviews - Casualties of War (1989)
		Which is too bad, because the central story of "Casualties of War" could have been a terrifying and harrowing film.
		He seems way too happy at the beginning of the film, and though he does an admirable attempt, he still can't convince us that he is this character.
		She doesn't speak English in the film, which means that the screenwriter can't interfere with her performance.
	www.afistfulofreviews.com /abcd/casualtiesofwar_dn.htm (531 words)

	World War 1 Timeline 1914-1919 - Worldwar-1.net
		World War 1, also known as the First World War or the the Great War, the War of the Nations and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict lasting from 1914 to 1919, with the fighting lasting until 1918.
		The war was fought by the Allies on one side, and the Central Powers on the other.
		World War 1 became infamous for trench warfare, where troops were confined to trenches because of tight defenses.
	www.worldwar-1.net (489 words)

	TechnoFILE Reviews "Casualties of War" on DVD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This Brian De Palma film is supposedly based on a true story that happened during the Vietnam war.
		Extras include "Eriksson's War," a conversation with Michael J. Fox about his thoughts of the incident and the movie, a featurette "The Making of Casualties of War," deleted scenes, production notes and trailers.
		It's too bad the subject matter of this film is so ugly, because it's a gorgeous audio and visual treat otherwise.
	www.technofile.com /dvds/casualties_of_war.html (304 words)

	Warner Independent Pictures' A Scanner Darkly -- The Official Film site
		Since the film would be animated overtop of the live action, makeup and lighting were less of a concern, as were equipment like booms or mics sneaking into a scene.
		The film is slated to be released in 2005.
		In addition to his film work, Harrelson first endeared himself to millions of viewers as a member of the ensemble cast of NBC's long-running hit comedy, "Cheers." For his work as the affable bartender Woody Boyd, Harrelson won an Emmy in 1988 and was nominated four additional times during his eight-year run on the show.
	wip.warnerbros.com /ascannerdarkly (7598 words)

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