The Battle Record

• 1). Seek out the history of the Russo-Japanese War at the turn of the century.
  
  
• 2). See American colonialism confronted in the Philippines.
  
  
• 3). Read accounts of World War I and learn how reactionary leadership and outdated strategies bled Germany, France and England dry.
  
  
• 4). Find histories of the Battle of the Somme, Gallipoli, Verdun, Saint-Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne.
  
  
• 5). Look into the Russian Revolution.
  
  
• 6). Move on to a study of China, Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Tse-tung and the cruel Japanese occupation of parts of China.
  
  
• 7). Trace the beginnings of World War II to Hitler's movement into Czechoslovakia and Austria.
  
  
• 8). Seek studies of the critical battles of World War II, beginning with the Battle of Britain, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway, El Alamein, D-Day at Normandy, Stalingrad, Leningrad and the Battle of the Bulge.
  
  
• 9). Turn to the opposite side of the globe to the equally critical campaigns against the Japanese Imperial Army in the Pacific.
  
  
• 10
  
  Read about Gen. MacArthur's campaign to cut off and isolate the enemy's forces in the South Pacific.
  
  
• 11
  
  Learn about the island-hopping campaigns of the U.S. Marines.
  
  
• 12
  
  Seek the history of Zionism and the confrontations surrounding the founding and sustaining of the state of Israel.
  
  
• 13
  
  Move on to the United Nations' opposition to Communist aggression in Korea.
  
  
• 14
  
  Seek histories of anti-colonial wars and revolutions around the globe, from Malaya to Cuba to the Congo.
  
  
• 15
  
  Seek the truth about the French and American military actions in Vietnam.
  
  
• 16
  
  Investigate the conflict between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands.
  
  
• 17
  
  Delve into the bloody confrontation between Iran and Iraq.
  
  
• 18
  
  Check the early histories of the coalition action against Iraq following that country's invasion of Kuwait.