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A new land can seduce the would-be conqueror, be he a general or a filmmaker. Herzog's amazing parable, about a 16th century Spanish explorer intoxicated and ultimately destroyed by the voluptuous verdancy of the Amazon, has a daft energy so intense that it seems to be a study...
Although more than 200 New Zealanders lost their lives alongside their American allies in the nightmare of Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, most Kiwi casualties were incurred far from home. Australia, in contrast, lost twice as many men in the Pacific as in Europe. During 1942 and 1943, the Imperial Japanese...
The following is the story of one man, a pilot in the Japanese Imperial Navy trained for a one-man suicide submarine mission (as a ?kamishio?, the Navy's equivalent of the Japanese Air Force's kamikaze) and overcame defeat after the war by rediscovering his sense of purpose in...
At 15, in December 1943, I became a Naval Air Force Pre-flight Cadet. After six months of strenuous basic training, our commanding officer explained the Japanese Imperial Navy?s decision to employ ?special tactics?. He appealed for volunteers. The prerequisites were (1) eighteen years of age or over; (2...
Rausing, who received and A.M. from Harvard in 1986 and a Ph.D. in 1993, is a senior research fellow in history at Imperial College, London. She is also a philanthropist, and has donated millions of dollars to various causes around the world, including Harvard’s Scholars at Risk...