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This book looks at issues which concern members and former members of the armed forces: the army, navy and air force. It covers issues such as service-related mental ill health, dealing with physical injuries, the future of the armed services in the wake of government cuts and redundancies, the role of women and young people in armed combat and at the problems which confront veterans after they leave the armed services.

Key Facts;  Glossary;  Additional Resources (websites etc.);  Index

Ron Kovic's story of Vietnam and its aftermath of one young man who went off to fight for the American Dream. Reprinted in an Akashic Books edition. (176 pages)
Level: B

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This is a superb, teachable short novel by John Boyne!
This story is set in Berlin 1942. When nine-year-old Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the wire fence. Shmuel, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences ... for Bruno's exploring means that he becomes consumed by the terrible process of which he is unwittingly a part. (216 [fairly short] pages)
Level: C-B (partnership with: Historie)

Based on the novel by John Boyne, this is the heart-wrenching tale of an unlikely friendship that forms between the son of a concentration camp commander and a young Jewish boy during World War II:

Directed by: Mark Herman

Starring: David Thewlis, Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, Sheila Hancock, Vera Farmiga

Running time: 94 minutes

Subtitle options: Danish, Norwegian, English

Extras: Audio commentary, documentary etc.

Widescreen

A drama about the unthinkable. The horrors of nuclear holocaust are illustrated here by the effect they have on the lives of everyday Americans in the Midwest.

Directed by: Nicholas Meyer

Starring: JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Lithgow, Jason Robards

Running time: 122 minutes

Subtitle options: none

Just the Facts Series:

educates students about a wide range of issues without patronising them

brings issues to life through real life case studies

gives students the factual basis for forming their own opinions

has ideas for further research

Contents: What is genocide? — Genocide before the Nazis — The holocaust — Recent holocausts — Seeking explanations — Traumatic times — Accusing others — Nationalism — Serb nationalism — Colonialism — Imperialism and genocide — The power of the state — The trouble with facts — What counts as genocide? — Who is to blame? — Willing executioners? — Is human nature to blame? — Genocide and the law — Genocide on trial — Racism — Ethics — Global ethics. 
Author: Sean Sheehan
Level: 1.g/C-D

A good introduction to the First World War. A riveting storyline, lots of newly gathered information and devastating pictures of the landscape of war. 96 minutes

Eighteen-year-old Francis Cassavant has returned from World War II an unwilling hero. Although he can still see and hear, a grenade has blown away his nose, ears, teeth and cheeks, leaving him faceless. Hiding his ghastly wounds with bandages and a white silk scarf, Francis welcomes the anonymity his mutilation brings him, for he has returned to his hometown with a secret mission — revenge on Larry LaSalle — that he values more than his own life. Francis's matter-of-fact acceptance of his hideous appearance, along with his sweet and selfless nature, contrast sharply with his obsessive need for vengeance. No one recognizes him as the quiet kid who once loved Nicole Renard and hung out with fellow teens. LaSalle, formerly a charismatic youth leader, has also come back from the war a hero, and only Francis knows the dark side of this older man's concern for young people. But does LaSalle's one evil act outweigh all the good he has done? And is Francis just as guilty because he could have prevented it and didn't? This is a book about heroism, guilt and forgiveness. Author: Rober Cormier. (112 pages)
LeveL: 9.-10. kl./1.g/HF/C/Linjefag

The story of seventeen-year-old Sam from Kentucky. Her father was killed in Vietnam and her gentle uncle Emmett is suffering from either the Agent Orange — or delayed acne. Sam’s growing awareness of the reality of war, of the scars and the guilt, becomes an obsession when she fails in love with Tom at a Veteran’s dance. Through her father’s letters home and the journal he kept “in country”, Sam begins a journey of exploration that takes her across America and helps her to come to terms with her past. A story of small-town, K-Mart America, the legacy of Vietnam and of two generations. “Bogen giver en fremragende skildring af Sams tanker og livet i den lille by.” (AMM Meddelelser) (278 standard pages)
Level: B

Glossary and background material. If you buy 10 or more copies of this workbook, we will reduce the price to kr. 10,95 ex. moms when we invoice you!

A great collection of journalism and essays by Christopher Hitchens, one of the most provocative and thought-provoking of modern writers. The departure point for this book is an antique saying: no life is complete unless love, poverty and war have been experienced. Poverty includes devastating assessments of Michael Moore and the cult of the Kennedys. The book's final section, War, contains biting reportage from North Korea, Pakistan and Iraq.

Hitchens takes aim at icons such as Winston Churchill, Mother Theresa, Noam Chomsky and the allegedly oppressive no smoking regulations implemented by the Mayor of New York. His journeys on the tattered remains of Route 66 and down Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard are also excellent pieces of writing.

These essays are well written, intelligent, and amusing with something to please or infuriate just about everyone. (475 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet 2nd/3rd year/Library/Depot/Linjefag

Oscar-moninated documentary about Pentagon insider and leading Vietnam War strategist Daniel Ellsberg, who came to the conclusion in 1971 that the war was based on decades of lies by no fewer than five US presidents. Dubbed ‘the most dangerous man in America’ by Henry Kissinger, Ellsberg decided to leak some 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to The New York Times — an act of conscience that led directly to Watergate, President Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War. A critical episode of the period — and one with parallels to today.

• Directed by: Judith Erlich and Rick Goldsmith
• Running time: 94 minutes (feature)
• Widescreen
• Extras: Naomi Wolf on...; Woody Harrelson discusses ...; Nixon Audio Tapes
• Subtitle options: none

The Vietnam War in the words of the men and women who fought there. A unique and harrowing collection of views. Lots of good source material here.

This book deals with the dangers of the spread of nuclear weapons. Can America manage a nuclear Iran? Should America or Israel attack Iran? And what about North Korea? And the threat of nuclear terrorism? Click “Flere oplysninger” to view the Contents. Editors: Louise I. Gerdes. (118 pages)
Level: Mainly Second and Third year Gymnasium

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John Greening considers some neglected names from the Great War – Wilfrid Gibson, Laurence Binyon, Ivor Gurney, Charles Sorley – while reassessing the work of established figures such as Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg, Thomas, Blunden and Graves. Each chapter provides a biographical summary and close analysis of the verse. There is a discussion, too, of other key poems from the period, including the contribution made by women writers. The closing chapter discusses the influence of the war on later poets, such as Ted Hughes. (150 pages) Level: Gymnasiet etc.

Student Guides:
This series introduces the major figures writing in English throughout the ages. The books provide an analytical and historical framework for understanding their subjects. They represent the next step up from “Notes”.

The Pulitzer Prize winning play by black New York playwright Lynn Nottage, set in present-day Africa:

How do you dramatize distant, gruesome political realities? In Ruined Lynn Nottage depicts the horrific toll sexual violence has taken on women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She balances unspeakably awful facts with the ordinary, and even hopeful in a way that increases the emotionally wrenching effect.
Mama Nadi owns a bar and poolroom staffed by waitresses who provide more than whiskey and food. It's located in a mining town, where demand for tin has escalated a brutal power struggle between various factions. Mama Nadi, a survivor and opportunist, caters not just to the miners, but to soldiers of whichever faction enters her premises. She runs a cozy little whorehouse — one of the cleanest and safest places in the area — and she’s determined to keep it that way. No bullets, no brawling, no unwashed hands and no talk of the civil war raging outside. Her determined impartiality and strict rule about guns being emptied by all who enter her little kingdom, has enabled her to control what goes on within her house, if not what happens beyond its front door. But will Mama be able to stay neutral forever? Menace overhangs life in the bar, and intensifies every time customers arrive. For the young women working here, whoring is nice work, compared with what they experienced before. Inspite of her neutrality Mama cannot remain emotionally uninvolved with the damaged girls who work for her — especially Sophie who is a victim not just of rape but mutilation, which gives her the bad luck status of a ruined girl. Lyrical written this powerful play is based on extensive interviews with Congolese women. (126 pages)
Level: 2nd and 3rd years of the Gymnasium/B-A

Tim O’Brien’s book is a novel —- or perhaps a suite of related short stories — the clearest prose to come out of the Vietnam War, or perhaps any war. The stories capture the brutality, irony and mental burden of the war and bring together threads of life from the war, the time before and the time after. (246 pages)

The Vietnam War examines the conflict from its origins through to 1975 and North Vietnam’s victory. It is an accessible yet thorough study of the war. This revised edition is completely up-to-date with the latest research and includes new source material. The book explores all the key elements of the conflict, including:
• US motivations for entering the war and the military strategies employed
• The role of the media
• The rise of domestic opposition
• The war’s impact in the US and Vietnam
The main text is supported by a comprehensive Documents section, and a Chronology of events, a Who's Who, a Glossary and a Further Reading section.
Author: Professor Mitchell K. Hall. (138 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet/SRP/Interdisciplinary projects with History

CONTENTS: Chronology; Abbreviations; Who’s Who; Glossary; Maps. PART ONE: BACKGROUND: 1. Roots Of The Vietnam War; The Rise of Vietnamese Nationalism; The First Indochina War; The United States and Ngo Dinh Diem; Johnson’s Decisions for War. PART TWO: THE VIETNAM WAR: 2. America Goes To War; Saigon’s Deterioration; Rolling Thunder; Making the Commitment; The Ground War; Turmoil in the South; 3. Turning Points; The Antiwar Movement; The Debate in Washington; The Tet Offensive; The Nation Reconsiders; Negotiations; 4. The End Of The Tunnel; Vietnamization; Cambodia; Laos; Negotiations; Pacification; The Easter Offensive; The Paris Agreement; 5. Conclusion And Legacy; The American Withdrawal; The Final Offensives; Laos and Cambodia; Impact on the United States; Impact on Vietnam; Postwar Debate; Conclusion. PART THREE: DOCUMENTS: 25 documents, for instance: Hanoi's Negotiating Position; McNamara presents options to President Johnson; Letter from Ho Chi Minh to Lyndon Johnson; CIA Analysis of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement; Report from Vietnam; Silent Majority Speech; John Kerry Testimony; Le Duan's Victory Speech. Further Reading; References.

NBC TV documentary featuring the seven episodes, The Long And Brutal War, The Helicopter War, The Grunt's War, The Enemy – Liberation Strategy, The Air Force At War, Here Come The Marines and The Navy In Vietnam.

Running time: 385 minutes

Extras: Gallery of Catherine Leroy's photos

Subtitle options: none

A new short history of the causes, the course and the legacies of the Vietnam War. Lots of illustrations, maps etc. (92 pages)
Level: Opgaveskrivning/ Biblioteket

A Vietnam War Reader is a collection of lived experiences, directly from the mouths and the pens of soldiers, politicians and citizens who lived through the days of the Vietnam War and its bloody aftermath. It includes testimony from both American and Vietnamese sources. It contains such diverse documents as Ho Chi Minh's report to the Communist Party, a secret memo from the CIA on the Vietcong and a 1966 letter from a junior officer to his family, describing his growing doubts about the war. Transcripts show the casual conversations and public press conferences that would lead to millions of deaths and reveal the terrible dilemmas faced by those in power, and on the ground. Editor Michael Hunt

Pham Van Dong: If the United States dares to start a limited war, we will fight it, and will win it.
Mao Zedong: Yes, you can win it.

Nixon: I'd rather use a nuclear bomb. Have you got that ready?
Kissinger: Now that, I think, would just be, uh, too much, uh —
Nixon: A nuclear bomb, does that bother you?
[Kissinger response virtually inaudible]
Nixon: I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake!

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Here are poets and writers who came face to face with the terror, the triumph, and the pity of war. This is a collection of easily accessible yet highly moving poems and prose passages selected from sources ranging from the Bible to the poets of World War I, including some of the best-loved pieces of American literature. Themed sections such as Friends and Enemies, Leaders and Leadership, Wartime, Death or Glory?, Remembrance, and Peace. Editor: Kate Agnew. (176 pages)
Level: A/B / Mostly 2nd + 3rd Year of Gymnasium etc.

Contents include: poems by Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Hardy, Blake, Browning, Tennyson, Tacitus, Marvell and Milton — extracts from Vanity Fair, Pride and Prejudice and the Bible.

Through the eyes of the war horse, Joey, Michael Morpurgo tells a story of chaos, pain and survival on the Western Front:

This is a moving story about one horse's experience in the deadly chaos of the first world war. In 1914, Joey, a young farm horse, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western Front. With his officer, he charges towards the enemy, witnessing the horror of the frontline. He witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times.  Even in the desolation of the trenches, Joey's courage touches the soldiers around him. One horse sees the best and the worst of humanity. Author: Michael Morpurgo. (192 pages)
Level: 9.-10. kl/D-C/1.g/1.HF etc.

Download/view an extract from the opening chapter here. (PDF)

The story of a soldier’s life in the trenches of the Western Front during World War Excellent background to a study of war poetry.

Running Time: 55 minutes

The story of the futility of the First World War that produced some of the most moving poetry ever written. And the tradition of war poetry that preceded it.

Running Time: 1hr 20 minutes

An anthology with all the famous voices (Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg etc.), some lesser-known ones and anonymous poems and songs.