courage in protecting thousands of women from Japanese soldiers but also for the diary she kept, a diary that some historians believe will eventually be recognized, much like the diary of Anne Frank, for its importance in illuminating the spirit of a single witness during a holocaust of war.威...
Through the fog of war though, asMustang of Fix Bayonetstold me several times, facts are lost, clouded by pressure of the times, sentiment and politics. As examples, Pfc. Rene Gagnon and Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class John Bradley were misidentified as being in the iconic Joe Rosenthal photo....
While bullets, bayonets, and bombs would reap a harvest of dead and wounded, bacteria, viruses, and parasites endemic in the environment were far more successful in finding human targets. When the armies came to the tropical Pacific, they tried to control disease medically through drugs and by...
and that not a single violation against discipline had occurred during the Russo-Japanese War and Manchurian campaign. The general said that if for some reason the Japanese had committed outrages in Nanking, it was only because the Chinese people had resisted them under the instigation of foreign...
Before they died under the thrusts of Japanese bayonets, their last words urged the young girl to do whatever the enemy soldiers wanted from her.另一个类似事件同样恐怖,一个15岁的小女孩亲眼目睹了自己全家被日军杀害的过程。日本士兵先是无端指控她的哥哥是中国军人,于是将他杀死;接着又因为她的嫂子...
The Japanese saturated victims in acid, impaled babies with bayonets, hung people by their tongues. One Japanese reporter who later investigated the Rape of Nanking learned that at least one Japanese soldier tore the heart and liver out of a Chinese victim to eat them. Even genitals, apparently...
One of the greatest works produced by British war artist Christopher (CRW) Nevinson will go on sale atSotheby’s Modern & Post-War British Art Sale on 21 November. EntitledA Dawn, the powerful image depicts a unit of French infantry, bayonets fixed, marching through a town centre. ...
We offer many different items for all types of collectors from the novice to the most discerning. Our website will be updated weekly and we will be offering a wide variety ofpre 1898 Carbines, Rifles, Muskets, Handguns, Swords, US & Foreign Bayonets, Bullet molds, Powder Flasks, tools,...
Being a World War II game, WaW offers a complete arsenal of 40's era weapons. Well designed, and they all feel right. Added to the mixture, are bayonets and flamethrowers which are greatly entertaining to use. WaW is also more violent and graphic then Call of Duty 4. Explosions will ...
$65.00. This volume of the "Daily Life Through History" series describes and analyzes the experiences of Americans in uniform during World War II with extensive examples drawn from interviews and other primary documents. Piehler draws upon many fine secondary sources as well as his own involvement...