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	War-Speak Worthy of Milton and Chuck Norris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		HE first casualty when war comes is truth." With due respect to Hiram Johnson, the Progressive senator who made that famous remark in 1917, the first casualty of war is less often the truth itself than the way we tell it.
		One linguistic casualty of that period was "casualty" itself, a word for an accidental loss that became a euphemism for dead and wounded around the time of the Crimean War, in the mid-19th century, the conflict that gave birth to the war correspondent.
		True, domestic support for World War II was never as solid or uncritical as we like to imagine — as late as 1944, almost 40 percent of Americans said they favored a negotiated peace with the Germans.
	www-csli.stanford.edu /~nunberg/warspeak.html (1254 words)

	Borders - Feature - The Peloponnesian War
		From the perspective of the fifth-century Greeks the Peloponnesian War was legitimately perceived as a world war, causing enormous destruction of life and property, intensifying factional and class hostility, and dividing the Greek states internally and destabilizing their relationship to one another, which ultimately weakened their capacity to resist conquest from outside.
		It is based on the scholarship employed in my four volumes on the war aimed chiefly at a scholarly audience, but my goal here is a readable narrative in a single volume to be read by the general reader for pleasure and to gain the wisdom that so many have sought in studying this war**.
		I hope to demonstrate, also, that a study of the Peloponnesian War is a source of wisdom about the behavior of human beings under the enormous pressures imposed by war, plague, and civil strife, and about the potentialities of leadership and the limits within which it must inevitably operate.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=peloponnesianwar (1303 words)

	Randy Greif: War of the World
		This time around, though, the work is far more abstracted, and uses the novel as more of a springboard for contemporary ideas relating to war--on a global level, a psychological level, and our own resistance to evolving from organic to digital beings.
		Even more than the novel itself, Greif incorporates the Orson Welles radio-drama hoax to explore the realm of dis-information and scrambled information, as well as the audience reaction of fear, even to the point of suicide, when faced with the unknown.
		"War Of The World" is subtitled "an emergency broadcast" as its overall effect was to approximate the feeling of listening to radio transmissions in an emergency situation (inspired during the Northridge earthquake).
	strangefortune.com /cd.php?id=784 (443 words)

	Rambles: Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		War has broken out with America -- as if Napoleon isn't enough for Britain to handle -- and Capt. Jack Aubrey is eager to assume command of a new frigate and take the battle across the Atlantic.
		But the ship he, ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin and his other shipmates take to England -- as passengers, not crew -- catches fire at sea, and the resulting explosion leaves 13 men adrift in an 18-foot-long cutter far, far from land.
		But, while the heroically wounded Aubrey is confined to his bed in a private hospital, Maturin must deal with issues of intrigue and intelligence and, more's the pity, jealousy.
	www.rambles.net /obrian_fortune79.html (272 words)

	SOS, Missouri - Wolfner Library ( World War 1: Fiction )
		These are fictional stories about World War 1 and the experiences the people who lived during this time may have had.
		Focusing on the brutality futility of war, it evokes the desperation, weariness, and emotional exhaustion of the men in the trenches.
		He begins the war aboard an obsolete battle cruiser and is captured by the Turks after Gallipoli.
	www.sos.mo.gov /wolfner/bibliographies/worldwar1fiction.asp (578 words)

	Kenneth Anderson's Law of War and Just War Theory Blog
		The success of the Viet Cong in sustaining its war effort in Vietnam in 1968-72 depended heavily on its use of the so-called War Zone B, a complex of deep tunnels and underground bases north of Saigon, which had been begun during the war against the French in 1946-55.
		War Zone B provided the Viet Cong with a permanent base of refuge and resupply that proved effectively invulnerable even against a determined American effort to destroy it.
		In its time, however, War Zone B was very far from being a holiday facility: it assured the survival of the Viet Cong close to Saigon and their ability to mount operations against the government forces and the Americans.
	kennethandersonlawofwar.blogspot.com (14476 words)

	SparkNotes: War and Peace: Character List
		Pierre is ensnared by the fortune-hunting Helene Kuragina, whose eventual deception leaves him depressed and confused, spurring a spiritual odyssey that spans the novel.
		In the war with Napoleon, he returns to active military service, but dies as the French approach his estate.
		Napoleon embodies self-serving rationalization and vainglory in the novel, and he is shocked by the French defeat at Borodino.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/warandpeace/characters.html (1053 words)

	Cold War: The Balance of Terror
		Yet during the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s, the fear of nuclear war went beyond the fear of attacks on isolated cities or installations.
		For a time, the possibility of total nuclear war could not be ruled out, and questions were raised not only about the level of destruction that might result from a nuclear exchange, but also about what life might be like after a nuclear war.
		President Truman’s Cold War policy became one of "containment" of the Soviets, which meant not challenging the Communists where they were already established, but doing everything possible to see to it that their sphere did not enlarge itself at the expense of "free" nations.
	www.sagehistory.net /coldwar/topics/coldwar.html (2120 words)

	MNL's Chocolate War Page
		I've been a born-again Christian since I was 22, and I highly recommend this novel to anyone 14 to adult, especially those who would enjoy and be inspired by a parable of how difficult it is to be truly good in an evil world.
		My one knock would be that the novel seems less focused than The Chocolate War, and that at some points the actions of the characters seem to weaken the magic of the first novel, if that makes any sense.
		The War on Chocolate, by Luc Nadeau: playscript: 2050, America, President George W.W. Bush and the ban on chocolate.
	members.tripod.com /mnl_1221/chocolatewar.html (1601 words)

	Winds of War
		The Iraq War was supposed to rid the world of an evil regime, find and destroy all weapons of mass destruction and production facilities in the country, liberate the people, help them attain a secular democratic government and lead them to the holy land of corporate provided prosperity.
		Successful wars send the message that our freedoms are secured only by armed agents of central power, and many are tempted to cede control of their lives to the executive state that prosecuted the war.
		Certainly, huge numbers are opposed to war and, as has been constantly pointed out, it can hardly be expected of members of the armed forces to fight without the support of the people at home, quite often their own families.
	www.jerrypippin.com /Winds_Of_War.htm (14026 words)

	Facts in African coup case echo Cold War-era fiction \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Forsyth, writing during a Cold War stay three decades ago on this palm-lashed volcanic island capital, rechristened Equatorial Guinea "Zangoro" for the thriller, and put his soldiers of fortune in quest of platinum, not oil.
		But "The Dogs of War" ends disastrously for the mercenaries, with their plot collapsed and mercenaries dead.
		Prosecutors have built their case on the testimony of du Toit – and skepticism that the Cold War-and apartheid-era veterans he recruited came to this oil-rich nation for the fishing and agriculture opportunities, as they claim.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040901/news_1n1dogsofwar.html (442 words)

	Oskar Schindler: An Unlikely Hero
		Oskar Schindler’s transformation from Nazi war profiteer to protector of Jews is the subject of several documentaries, the best-selling novel Schindler’s List (1982) by Thomas Keneally, and an Academy award-winning film directed by Steven Spielberg.
		Until the outbreak of war in 1939, Rosner was a professional violinist.
		During the war, Rosner was a prisoner in the Plaszow forced labor camp.
	www.ushmm.org /museum/exhibit/focus/schindler (563 words)

	New Fiction
		The protagonist in that novel, though winning, is so tolerant and enlightened that she's unconvincing as a very young, uneducated seventeenth-century woman.
		I recall thinking, even as a child, that although Meg praises her father for going to war when he didn't have to, the choice was rather self-indulgent—and Brooks seems to be of the same opinion.
		Christina Schwarz is the author of the novels Drowning Ruth and All Is Vanity.
	www.theatlantic.com /doc/prem/200504/schwarzc2 (534 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fools Of Fortune: Books: William Trevor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		There are elements of comedy and whimsy here, but this novel is mostly about how hatred and revenge during the "Irish troubles" consume possibilities for happiness and familial satisfaction.
		In comparison to his other novels, I find that this book captures the innocence of youth and the loss of innocence that war and times of trouble can bring.
		I have just finished reading this novel and have come to conclude that all of Trevor's novels should not be missed.
	www.amazon.ca /Fools-Fortune-William-Trevor/dp/0140111816 (578 words)

	Steven Pressfield - Official Website
		No general of this or any age has been so favored by fortune as I, to lead such men, possessed of such warlike spirit, imbued with such resources of self-enterprise, committed so to their commanders and to their call.
		I do not wish to fight war upon war, but by war to produce such a peace as will admit of no insurrection.
		This is as true of naval warfare as it is of war on land.
	www.stevenpressfield.com /books/virtues_war.asp (3656 words)

	TIME Magazine: World War II Archive Collection
		At TIME magazine, the editors made a different pledge: To present readers with news of the conflict which they dubbed "World War II", marking the first use of these words to describe the fighting.
		Calling Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor "brilliant, thorough, audacious," TIME went on to describe how the U.S. reacted during those earliest days of war: "It met them with incredulity and outrage, with a quick, harsh, nationwide outburst that swelled like the catalogue of some profane Whitman.
		Throughout the next four years, Time Inc. had more than 80 correspondents reporting from every front—from the Battle of the Coral Sea in the Pacific to the Battle of the Bulge in Europe.
	www.time.com /time/archive/collections/0,21428,c_world_war_2,00.shtml (367 words)

	Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune
		And if the last section of the novel bogs down in social commentary, the writer revives her story in a finale that is both romantic and powerful.
		In “Daughter of Fortune,” a novel more akin to a television mini-series than a motion picture, Allende has continued her obsession with passion and violence.
		A novel of love and freedom, its powerful impact is due in large part to its details, from historical minutiae to lyrical phrases.
	www.isabelallende.com /fools_reviews.htm (3378 words)

	CBC.ca - Arts - Music - The Saddest Music in the World
		Traditionally, the requiem was a form of mass intended to commend an individual to the Almighty, seeking a congenial afterlife for the dead soul.
		English tenor and organist Peter Pears sings at the rehearsal for the 1962 premiere of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem at Coventry Cathedral.
		Vaughan Williams, a veteran of the war to end all wars, was writing this piece in the run-up to the Second World War, unable to believe that Europe had moved so soon back to the brink.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/music/warrequiems.html (2049 words)

	Science Fiction: The Early History
		With the triumph of industrial capitalism in the Civil War, there emerged a newly literate mass audience of boys and young men intrigued by the opportunities of fame and fortune in science and technology.
		Aimed directly at this readership was the science-fiction "dime" novel, with its teenage boy genius as hero, first presented in Edward Ellis's seminal The Steam Man of the Prairie (1865).
		Between the Civil War and World War I, the most popular form of literature in America was the dime novel, and its science fiction versions were to have a formative influence on American culture (as can be glimpsed in this volume's entry on Luis Senarens).
	newark.rutgers.edu /~hbf/sfhist.html (2084 words)

	SparkNotes: War and Peace: Book One
		While the author never approves of extreme tactics, such as the cold-blooded ruthlessness of Helene Kuragina, it is arguable that he views love—and all of life, for that matter—as a battlefield upon which some sort of fighting is always necessary.
		Tolstoy’s exploration of war in this novel also raises complicated issues about what it means to identify with one’s nation.
		The threat of a French war against Russia reveals the irony of a cultural situation in which, even in peacetime, the French-speaking Russian aristocrats already seem at war with the common, native Russian-speaking population.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/warandpeace/section1.html (1403 words)

	War and War-Era Movies: Media Resources Center UCB
		It is a study of a prisoner of war camp and the disillusionment of captors and prisoners alike.
		During World War I on the French front, a regiment of soldiers are set up for suicide missions and are generally manipulated in ways that show no regard for their lives.
		Black comedy about war, revolving around an inept and idiotic lieutenant who is first assigned to North Africa to construct a cricket pitch in the middle of the desert, and then to Europe to capture a bridge over the Rhine, which he accomplishes by making a deal with a German officer.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/Warfilm.html (13888 words)

	BookPage Interview April 1998: Howard Bahr
		Set during the Battle of Franklin (Tennessee) in November 1864, the novel's action spans barely a single day and ranges over a narrow corner of one of the bloodiest battlefields of the Civil War.
		The comparisons are inevitable: both are love stories, both take place during the Civil War, both are written by writers with an ear for language.
		His is a journey novel, not a war book at all.
	www.bookpage.com /9804bp/howard_bahr.html (1055 words)

	The Chaos War Summary
		The fearless draconians of the War of the Lance have retired from the field of battle to a pleasant valley in the Kharolis Mountains.
		When the dwarves discover a map leading to a fortune buried in the dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin, the draconians are swept up in a feverish race for treasure.
		This novel, set in the time of the Chaos War, brings to life the story of Crysania, a Revered Daughter of Paladine, and Dalamar, the dark elf.
	www.krynnwoman.com /Summaries/Sum-ChaosWar.htm (826 words)

	Banjo Paterson Team
		Even though he was a practicing lawyer in Sydney, he always had a hankering for the bush, and made numerous trips to remote areas in Queensland and the Northern Territory.
		Some of these experiences are remembered in his war memoirs, Happy Dispatches, published in 1934.
		He ended up as a major in the First Australian Remount Unit, a unit of horsemen from bush and racecourse whose task was to train mounts for the Australian Light Horse.
	bardsoffortune.4t.com /banjoindex.htm (914 words)

	Polybius: the First Punic War
		According to the Greek historian Polybius of Megalopolis (c.200-c.118), the First Punic War (264-241) between Carthage and Rome was "the longest and most severely contested war in history".
		rose again, and it seemed to them that the fortune of war was inclining in their favor, while the Romans, on the contrary, who had been previously to a certain extent unlucky but never had met with so complete a disaster, relinquished the sea, while continuing to maintain their hold on the country.
		Junius, returning to the army after the shipwreck in a state of great affliction, set himself to devise some novel and original step that would be of service, being most anxious to make good the loss inflicted by the disaster.
	www.livius.org /ps-pz/punic_war/polybius_1_55.html (426 words)

	Amazon.com: The Fortune of War (Aubrey Maturin Series): Books: Patrick O'Brian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Caught en route to England in a dispatch vessel, Aubrey and Maturin are soon in the thick of a typically bloody naval engagement.
		For the first five novels in Patrick O'Brian's hallowed Aubrey-Maturin series, Captain "Lucky Jack" Aubrey was the swashbuckling hero and Dr. Stephen Maturin was the mysterious sidekick.
		In "The Fortune of War," Maturin shoves his way to the fore and Captain Aubrey is more or less sidelined with a grevious wound to his sword arm.
	www.amazon.com /Fortune-War-Aubrey-Maturin/dp/0393308138 (2415 words)

	The Fortune of War Audio Book
		The war of 1812 breaks out while Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are en route from the Dutch East Indies to England.
		A doctor recommended sea air for his weak lungs, and he learned to sail--a lifelong interest that is a vital part of his Aubrey-Maturin novels, his popular and critically acclaimed novels of the English navy during the Napoleonic Wars.
		After the war, he and Mary moved to Wales under his new name, and he began to write, but eventually they relocated to the more congenial climate of the small village of Collioure, in the south of France, where O'Brian lived in determined obscurity.
	www.audioeditions.com /showbook.cfm?pcode=A9B994 (515 words)

	Amazon.com: Fortunes of War: DVD: Kenneth Branagh,Emma Thompson,Rupert Graves,Robert Stephens,Ronald Pickup,Vernon ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The film catalogs and chronicles, after the war begins, the characters [diplomats, literary types, spies, penniless royalty, gays, lesbians] that cross and re-cross their path as they flee before the advancing Germany armies to Athens and then to Cairo.
		Based upon the autobiographical novels of best-selling author Olivia Manning, and set in places as far-flung as Bucharest, Athens and Cairo, Fortunes of War is majestic in both its scope and its vision.
		Unfortunately, it was not to last, but "Fortunes of War" at least allows us to glimpse the brilliant start, and to be glad that their joint venture in film lasted as long as it did!
	www.amazon.com /Fortunes-War-James-Cellan-Jones/dp/B0007LFPJ8 (1893 words)

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