Graves' Use of Documents Robert Graves depicts the dramatic and somewhat gruesome memories of his days in World War I in his autobiography, Good-bye to All That. Without ever being involved in a war, it is hard to comprehend the horrific and dramatic events that take place. As with any st...

Elie Wiesel's is a powerful novel that describes the occurrences during the Holocaust. The story takes place in the times of WW II in the concentration camp at Auschwitz. Night can be interpreted as an autobiography of the author's personal experiences during his captivity by the Nazis in the conc...

Born-San Francisco, California-December 3, 1919Died-North Bennington, Vermont- August 8, 1965-45Have published novels, humorous fictionalized autobiographies, and children booksMany have remained uncollected1961, Edgar Allen Poe Reward, "Louisa, Please"1965, Syracuse University Arents Pioneer Medal ...

World War One, despite the enormity and grand scale of the conflict, was ultimately a war of attrition. "Attrition in the end, was the main factor that decided who won the war. The Entente Powers simply had more men and resources than Germany and its allies (though there were some anxious moment...

Susan Griffin\'s project is that she carefully constructs and describes history, particularly World War II, through the lives of several different people. She does not just state the history, she ties each of her topics and shows how they directly effected the other by the actions someone would take...

In the novel, Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, the author writes an autobiography about living in an internment camp during World War II, known as Manzanar. It was written in 1995 with the help of her husband and reflects on her past of growing up in a racial discriminated environ...

Farewell to Manzanar "Farewell to Manzanar", was written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston ( Wakatsuki's husband) in 1973. It is an autobiography of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houstons life and her family during World War II. The book opens when Pearl Harbor is bombed. Jeanne w...

Adolf Hitler was born at 6:30pm on April 20th, 1889 in the small town of Braunau Am Inn, Austria. His father, Alois, was a customs official. Adolf's mother, Klara, was twenty three years younger than Alois. She had six children but only two survived, Adolf and his sister Paula. During his chil...

They sometimes say that people most fear what they don't understand! Past and present warfare conflicts have brought a sense of patriotism and American duty to the United States. But in World War II in brought a sense of fear home with it too. In Chapter 11 of "American Realities,"...

Examine how Heaney's rural upbringing in Ulster has provided an important focus for his poems in the 'Death of a Naturalist' collection. Heaney was born in 1939, on a family farm in Ulster. His father was a traditional farmer, whilst his mother was more sided with the industria...

Political Life before World War II Churchill assumed the position of prime minister in 1940, a few daysafter the German army pushed into Belgium and Holland. Though he was onlyappointed after the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Churchill was by nomeans a newcomer to warfare or public servi...