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It was November 11, 1918, the armistice ending World War I officially took effect. The fighting ended at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Celebrated as the war to end all wars, the First World War was the first global conflict. Nearly a hundred years and several wars later, I would recommend a few gems Historybusting ...

Lawrence of Arabia in Peter O'Toole gives a performance of making the foreground as TE Lawrence, the eccentric British officer who united the desert tribes of Arabia against the Turks Ottomans during the First World War director David Lean bid battle sequences and breathtaking images of scanning, but the film is really about the adventures and trials that transform a man into a legend. This film is mature, but family friendly. There is also a film about the lists of first choice many favorites.

Set during the First World War, Gallipoli is a brutally honest film co-written by director Peter Weir. It tells the fictionalized story of two best friends who put aside their hopes and dreams of joining the war effort. This film follows finally them as they use and are sent to Gallipoli to fight against the Turks. The first half of the film is devoted to their life and their strong friendship. Details second half doomed war efforts of Australians who can not compete with the powerful and aggressive Turkish army. This film is family friendly, but with adult content.

Produced in 1941, partly to appeal to American arms in the Second World War, Sergeant York is an amazing story exactly the life of Sgt. Alvin York, recipient of the Medal of Honor from Congress. Much of the script is taken directly from Sgt. York newspaper, and himself York served as an advisor throughout the filming. York has even chosen to Gary Cooper to play his character, Cooper returned the favor by giving one of the best performances of his career. The story begins before the American involvement in the war. We meet York in his home state of Tennessee and learn quickly that sniper is a world-class pacifist. Drafted to fight, he is blocked from killing by his beliefs. The underlying theme of this memorable film relates how a modest and quiet man managed to capture a German position with one hand and save the lives of his comrades. It contains adult content.

Based on Pat Barker's suburbs psychological 1991 war novel regeneration, Behind the Lines is an extraordinary World War I film. It is set in 1917 at a hospital in the British army in Craiglockart, Scotland. We met a pioneering psychiatrist named Dr. William Rivers and the number of soldiers it needs to heal and return to the front. This is a unique story about the invisible wounds of war, two visionaries poets, and a visionary doctor. Family friendly, but with adult content.

Based on the novel semi-fiction by Humphrey Cobb, Paths of fame stars Kirk Douglas in one of his finest roles Colonel Dax, commander of a regiment worn by the Army War French flying along the western front during World War I. held in their trenches under the threat of German artillery, the regiment is ordered on a suicidal mission to capture an enemy fortress. This suicide attack is loosely based on the Battle of Fort Douamont during the Battle of Verdun where more than 300,000 French soldiers lost their lives. When the mission inevitably fails, French general for the selection of three soldiers to be tried and executed on the charge of cowardice. Colonel Dax is chosen to defend them. Paths of Glory content contains mature enough.

The last battalion is a 2001 E & A production with Rick Schroder, Jamie Harris, Phil McKey, Jay Rodan, and James Adam II. It tells the true story of the First World War an American unit that was surrounded by German troops and bombed without thank you on both sides. He describes the surreal brutality of a war in which carrier pigeons and machine guns were the tools of victory, and creates memorable characters and you need to know. This a wonderful representation of a horrible time, it contains adult content.

If you never saw Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1943 the production of life and death of Colonel Blimp, prepare yourself for a treat. The main character is based on a popular cartoon character at the time, but the incredible performance by Roger Livesey as Clive Wynne-Candy general is much funnier. We first meet General impressive rotunda as an old duffer braggart serving in World War II. It oozes values stuffy, pompous and outdated. However, the return trips 40 years for the start of the Crimean War, we see a man quite different: a young and dashing officer nicknamed "Sugar" Candy. With a series of relationships set against the events of three wars, we can understand how difficult it is for him to adapt his sense of honor Military modern notions of "total war". Incidentally, this film is that Winston Churchill tried to ban because of its sympathetic picture of an officer German. Charming in every sense, the film is family friendly, with a slightly mature content.

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Visit http://www.navigatinglife.org/historybusters for a list of over 1000 great historical films. Every movie on Historybusters has been hand picked for historical accuracy and entertainment value. Why? Because the best way to learn history is through story. After all, that's what history truly is---a really wonderful story. Our criteria? If a movie is accurate enough to help someone pass a test, and it's still enjoyable---you'll find it here.

Lynn Marie Sager teaches history in Los Angeles, CA. In her spare time, she runs the Historybusters Website, dedicated to hooking young people on history one story at a time.

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War $5.99 The sixth and final installment in this popular series about the start of the American Revolution.Opening in the spring of 1774 and ending explosively on the York River in the fall of 1775, Sparrowhawk Book VI: War concludes Edward Cline’s celebrated series and brings readers one step closer to the American Revolution.Jack Frake is now the captain of an independent company of militia, while Hugh Kenrick is a burgess witnessing the twilight of the colonial legislature in Williamsburg. When Parliament passes more acts restricting the colonists, Americans take it as an unofficial declaration of war and the residents of Caxton are thrown into an uproar. All-out conflict between the Crown and the colonists seems inevitable.In a move that will take the Sparrowhawk into combat one final time, Hugh and Jack strike out to end British tyranny and form a free country, a battle which will culminate on the bloody slopes of Breed’s Hill near Boston.About the Author:Edward Cline is the author of two other novels: First Prize, a detective novel, and Whisper the Guns, a suspense novel, and has written for a variety of publications including the Colonial Williamsburg Journal and the Marine Corps League. His essay on John Locke was anthologized in McGraw-Hill’s Western Civilization. He lives in Yorktown, Virginia

W.A.R. $9.99 A journalist who had unprecedented access to Guns n’ Roses at their peak delivers a big, brash history of the band’s charismatic, fantastically talented and idiosyncratic leader—W. Axl Rose Even in the world of rock and roll, a figure like Axl Rose doesn’t come along very often.  Mercurial and brilliant, deluded and imperious, Rose defies easy description or analysis. Few people have studied Rose as closely as Mick Wall has.  Traveling with Guns n’ Roses and writing about them in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Wall first earned Axl’s trust and later his fury.  W.A.R. goes back to the beginning, revealing Rose’s childhood influences (and how he got his name), and tracking the birth of the band and their enormous success with albums like “Appetite for Destruction” and “Use Your Illusion.”  With fame and money came substance abuse and infighting, and a lead singer who morphed from eccentric to seemingly unhinged.  Wall’s book is richly detailed and offers surprising new views on some celebrated Guns ’n Roses and Axl Rose incidents, including: --the death of two fans at a concert in Donington Park in England, --Rose’s fall-out and eventual split from every one of the other original Gn’R band members, --fights with perceived enemies like Kurt Cobain, Motley Crue’s Vince Neil and fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger, --Rose’s consistent refusal to show up at concerts throughout his career, --Axl becoming a virtual recluse at his Malibu mansion for most of the past 15 years.  The book goes right up to the present, to explore why a new Guns n’ Roses—with a reconfigured band—has toured but still hasn’t released their long-awaited album “Chinese Democracy”, now over a decade in the making at a cost of over $13 million. W.A.R. is about great music, bad relationships, and the public and private personas of one of the most controversial performers of our time.  

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World War Two $34.95 Jeremy Black provides fresh insights into the operations at the Eastern Front and the war against Japan and argues against a trend to demilitarise, giving due weight to the campaings and battles that made up the war.

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The Two O'Clock War $6.99 It's usually called the Yom Kippur War. Or sometimes the October War. The players that surround it are familiar: Sadat and Mubarak, Meir and Sharon, Nixon and Kissinger, Brezhnev and Dobyrnin. It was a war that brought Arab and Jew into vicious conflict. A war in which Israel almost unleashed her nuclear arsenal and set two superpowers on a treacherous course of nuclear escalation. And a war that eventually brought peace. But a peace fraught with delicate tensions, disputed borders, and a legacy of further bloodshed. The Two O'Clock War is a spellbinding chronicle of the international chess game that was played out in October 1973. It is a story of diplomacy and military might that accounts for many of the dilemmas faced in the present-day Middle East. This is a war that Israel never thought was possible. Surprised by the fury and excellent execution of the Arab onslaught, and perhaps more than a little complacent, Israel suddenly found itself on the point of losing a war because of a lack of ammunition, planes and tanks. The United States, after much vacillation, finally elected to help Israel, beginning a tremendous airlift (code name: Operation Nickel Grass) which incurred the wrath of the Arab states, and their sponsor, the Soviet Union. Fortunately the airlift came just in time for Israeli ground forces to stabilize their positions and eventually turn the tide in the Sinai and Golan Heights. And it was all made possible by an operation that dwarfed the Berlin Airlift and the Soviets' simultaneous efforts in Egypt and Syria. The Two O'Clock War is bound to become the definitive history of a war that quite literally approached Armageddon.

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The Balkans in World War Two $120 Between 1939 and 1941 Britain had a terrible dilemma. She was keen to see Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Yugoslavia join the Allies against Nazi Germany. But the 1939 Molotov Ribbentrop Pact had changed everything: the Balkan countries were far more afraid of Stalin than of Hitler. Britain and France were also concerned about the Soviets giving so much oil to Germany: in 1940 Britain almost went to war with the USSR in an attack on the Caucasus. This book looks at how Britain tried to solve these dilemmas and ultimately failed to do so.

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