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War Game is a children's novel about World War I written and illustrated by Michael Foreman and published by Pavilion in 1993. [1] It features four young English soldiers and includes football with German soldiers during the Christmas truce, "temporary relief from the brutal and seemingly endless struggle in the trenches".
The War Game is a 1966 British pseudo-documentary film that depicts a nuclear war and its aftermath. [1] Written, directed and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC , [ 2 ] it caused dismay within the BBC and within government, and was withdrawn before the provisional screening date of 6 October 1965. [ 3 ]
War Game is a 2002 animated short film made by the British animation company Illuminated Films, and based on the Michael Foreman novel of the same name. The film included many of the same scenes listed in the book, although four new characters were created. It features the voices of Adam Godley, Colin McFarlane, and Kate Winslet.
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"War Game" is a 1959 short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in the magazine Galaxy Science Fiction , in December 1959, and has since been re-published in two anthologies and at least twenty-four collections.
Keegan discusses early warfare, the proliferation of Bronze Age warfare and then Iron Age warfare (Greek hoplites and phalanxes, Roman legions and maniples).He also talks about the conquests of the "horse peoples", first under the Assyrians, then the Achaemenids, Parthians and Sassanids; then in the 7th century the Arabs conquer a lot of territory, followed by the Mongols under Genghis Khan ...
White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850. [1] The book is based on the author's fourteen months' service in the United States Navy , aboard the frigate USS Neversink (actually USS United States ).
The first edition of The Royal Game. Following the occupation and annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, the country's monarchists (i.e. supporters of Otto von Habsburg as the rightful Emperor-Archduke and the rule of the House of Habsburg), conservatives as well as supporters of Engelbert Dollfuss' Austrofascist regime, were severely persecuted by the Nazis, as they were seen as opponents of ...