we are reading the book all quiet on the western front! is there anything i should know?
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check out sparknotes.com
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This is a tough one!  It looks as if this volume wasn't widely reviewed.  I search and searched using the ABELL (The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) and couldn't even find one of the review that I knew existed.  This is probably because the citation below includes the Rock book in a comparative review with several other books.  You have probably already come across The New York Review of Books review by Gordon Craig "Making way for Hitler" in Volume 36, Number 15 · October 12, 1989.\n\nYou probably also found the review by Alex Danchev in Reviews in American History © 1990 The Johns Hopkins University Press titled "Tiger Shooting Together: The Grand Alliance in Embryo." It can be found online at http://www.jstor.org/view/00487511/dm980069/98p0096z/0.\n\nThe Rock volume was written in the waining years of the cold war and there is no doubt that the author will show influence and bias based on this context.  This is true for all historical periods and the impact that current thinking has on historical analysis.  Go with you gut and call the author on the bias just be sure to put his thoughts in the appropriate historical context.  We have the benefit of 20 years of hindsight since the writing of this volume.  Not to mention that Rock appears to have been at his prime 20 or 30 years before this book.\n\nGood luck!
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OK, I'll give it my best shot...\n\n* Who is the speaker or speakers in the poem, and what is the situation?\n\nThe speaker appears to be a military trainee, learning about the names of parts in (bolt, breech, saftey, etc. ) and functions of his rifle.\n\n* What basic contrasts are represented by the trainees and by the gardens?\n\nThere are several:\n"..eloquent gestures, Which in our case we have not got."\nNot much eloquent about cleaning a rifle...\n\n"If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms\nAre fragile and motionless"\nStrength vs fragility\n\n"Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards\nThe early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:\n          They call it easing the Spring"\nTwo different definitions of spring, one in the rifle, one a season.\n\nand more...\n\n* What statement does the poem make about war as it affects men and their lives?\n\nWar is about hard, cold things like rifles and all that goes with war, whereas the gardens represent beauty, silence, peace.\nThe gardens bring out the best in man, wars the worse.\n\nHope this helps!
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I did that book at school too. very powerful book. harper lee is a great author. Favourite book? Red Dragon by thomas harris is good, as is the film. I love my horror books.
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Try a book called BREAKOUT AND PURSUIT by Martin Blumenson.  It is part of the series THE US ARMY IN WORLD WAR II.  Blumenson also has one called DUEL FOR FRANCE.
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Check Amazon.com.  Or if not there ebay.  If not there try just typing it in to Google.  I have never personally heard of the book so I'm not sure what the results will be.  Good Luck.
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Read please...\n\n"THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB" by Richard Rhodes
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what i think is interesting is the war.  It's been awhile since I've read the book, but "we've always been at war with Eurasia"  then it suddenly turns to "we've always been at war with Indoasia(or whatever it was called, like I said it's been awhile).\n\nany-hoot, this reminds me of the war in Afghanistan....we were at war there, then all of a sudden we were in a war in Iraq.  it was like we were always at war in Iraq.  \n\n"Afghanistan?  no, we've always been in Iraq"
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I'm reading this book right now\n\nhttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0452285259&itm=1\n\nI just got it, so I haven't read too far, but so far it's very interesting and easy to understand.  Here's some others on my list\n\nhttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0195142373&itm=2\n\nhttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=019514743X&itm=5\n\nI would look on ebay or half.com, or even your library, first.\n\nI also think game theory and number theory are interesting topics, so if you or anyone else has a recommendation for those, please let me know :)\n\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nI forgot this one, it's on my list, too\n\nhttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?z=y&pwb=1&ean=9780691058542\n\nAnd I agree, good for you for expanding your horizons.
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Since the book just was released today (2/13), I don't think the list will be readily floating around online (Then nobody would have to buy it).  I would say to go check it out at Borders or Barnes & Noble.\n\nI hope to buy it within a week or so, and will let you know if anyone from GA is in there.
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Someone in a forum wrote that it first came about in the US in a novel in 1921, and was also related to fighter jets in WWI. I don't know how valid this is, but feel free to check it out at the link below.
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I love that book.  Anyway, in the "Voyage to Lilliput" section, that nation is at war with Blefuscu over the proper manner to eat a hard boiled egg, obviously a trivial matter.  \n\nThere are many layers of satire in "Gulliver's Travels", and one of them here concerns the Catholic-Protestant problems which have often plagued Britain.  Swift was basically claiming that bloodshed between Catholics and Protestants over their theological differences made just as much sense as going to war over the correct way to eat eggs.\n\nI hope this helps.  "Gulliver's Travels" really is a great book, the later parts are, in my view, even better than the more famous voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag.
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the moral of the story/the overall message it's related to.\neg:war,betrayal,loneliness\nhope that helped.cheerz!
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Check here:\n\nhttp://www.novedge.com/Book_Show.asp?ASIN=0071361057
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Theres tons of stuff in that book, and reading the book would be especially helpful, but if your short on time go to Spark notes http://www.sparknotes.com
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Hey, I learned that book when i was in eleventh grade. When I get home I'll check my notes and try to get back to you. Good Luck!!
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Here is what Amazon has to say about the book.\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0440227410/qid=1138663474/\n\n"Now that he's back in Aspen, Colorado, Will Lansa feels like an outsider after spending the summer with his father on the Hopi reservation in Arizona. He breaks up with his girlfriend Myra, and then becomes the last person known to have seen her alive. When a missing knife is discovered with blood on the blade and traces of a drug on the handle, Will is suspected of committing the murder. His only allies are a computer hacker and a Hopi spirit who visits Will in his dreams. Haunted by visions of Myra's death, Will won't rest until he proves his innocence and finds Myra's murderer."