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The Storm of War is a non-fiction book authored by British historian and journalist Andrew Roberts. It covers numerous historical factors of the Second World War such as Adolf Hitler's rise to power and the organisation of Nazi Germany as well as numerous missteps made by the dictatorial regime .
Nakano Takeko (中野 竹子, April 1847 – 16 October 1868) was a Japanese female warrior of the Aizu Domain, who fought and died during the Boshin War.During the Battle of Aizu, she fought with a naginata (a Japanese polearm) and was the leader of an ad hoc corps of female combatants who fought in the battle independently.
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively.The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and they remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
NTV in Japan produced a live-action TV drama of Grave of the Fireflies, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the end of the war. The drama aired on 1 November 2005. Like the anime, the live-action version of Grave of the Fireflies focuses on two siblings struggling to survive the final months of the war in Kobe, Japan. Unlike the ...
Tsutomu Yamaguchi (山口 彊, Yamaguchi Tsutomu) (16 March 1916 – 4 January 2010) was a Japanese marine engineer who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II. Although at least 160 people are known to have been affected by both bombings, [ 1 ] he is the only person to have been officially recognized by the ...
Terms such as storm(s) of war and the storm(s) of war have been used in multiple contexts throughout history: IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, a video game initially known as Storm of War: Battle of Britain; The Storm of War, a 2009 non-fiction book chronicling WWII; Storms of War, a 2012 album by Swedish heavy metal band Katana
Violet struggles to survive each day at Basgiath War College, facing threats from fellow cadet Jack Barlowe, who views her as weak. But she uses her book smarts to make it through physical fights ...
Nanako promises Shin-chan that she'll take him on a picnic tomorrow if it's sunny. Meanwhile, a shoe suddenly hits Kazama's face at the park. / Musae eats a late lunch and complains that the Noharas have been eating too much hot pot.