René ( born again or reborn in French) is a common first name in both French-speaking and Spanish-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus.
The United States of America ( USA), commonly referred to as the United States ( U.S.) or America, is a federal republic ξ3 ξ4 composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major territories and various possessions. The 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C., are in central North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwestern part of North America and the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean..
“Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad..
Despite the fateful nature of the risk, we have little knowledge, as Jack S. Levy has pointed out, "of the conditions, processes, and events which might combine to generate such a calamity." No empirically confirmed theory of the causes of war exists, and ..
How did the exiled keep in touch with home? Why were some exiles silent when others wrote frequently and at length? Posted in Wartime explores the nature of such exile and considers what could be written in diaries and letters, given that letters were cens..
On the one hand, it brought an end to a sense of optimism and decency bred by the prosperity of nineteenth-century Europe. On the other, it brought forth a sense of futility and alienation that has since pervaded European thought. That cataclysmic experien..
Nicole Kidman (Academy Award®Winner – Best Actress The Hours 2002) stars with Academy Award® winner Renée Zellweger (Best Supporting Actress Cold Mountain 2003) and Academy Award® nominee Jude Law (Best Actor Cold Mountain). A..
Foreign policy in the Cold War era. From the late 1940s through the late 1980s, the United States waged cold war against the Soviet Union not primarily in the name of capitalism or Western civilization--neither of which would have united the American peopl..
It includes the full text of the genocide section of a United Nations sponsored Commission on Historical Clarification in Guatemala (CEH), brokered by the UN. In its final report, the CEH's rigorously reviewed abuses throughout the whole country. Howev..
It explores the psychological imprint of that experience and the healing in later years after the author settles in the High Desert of the American Southwest. The book is also a tribute to the ability of women and children to survive hardships and celebrat..
At its core, Infinite Warfare returns to the roots of the franchise where cinematic, immersive storytelling takes center stage as told through an unfolding large-scale war and epic battles that deliver an authentic Call of Duty experience. Call of Duty: ..
The Warner Home Video WARD279680D Dark Shadows continuing their creative and commercially incandescent partnership Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands , superstar Johnny Depp and macabre movie master Tim Burton reunite ye..
Discover classic Battlefield gameplay through an adventure filled campaign, or squad up and join epic multiplayer battles with up to 64 players. br br b MASSIVE BEHEMOTHS b br br Pilot some of the largest vehicles in Battlefield history. Rain ..
Discover classic Battlefield gameplay through an adventure filled campaign, or squad up and join epic multiplayer battles with up to 64 players. br br b MASSIVE BEHEMOTHS b br br Pilot some of the largest vehicles in Battlefield history. Rain ..
It is the final days of World War II, and Luigi Manin (Luca Zingaretti) is one of many Italian prisoners of war being held on U.S. soil. His prison is the Hereford Internment Camp in Texas, a grim place commanded by Colonel Gartner (Roy Scheider). After se..
Picking up immediately where 'Resistance: Fall of Man' concluded Resistance 2 follows Nathan Hale as he finds himself once more in a world transformed by war and invasion. Undaunted by their defeat in London the Chimera have continued to advance and are ..
?Everything is more intense...?Like your brain?s taking it all in, knowing that it might be the last cloud or the last blade of grass you?ll ever see...? An epic historical drama spanning the five years of the First World War, as seen through the eyes of ..
In the year 1937 Andrea Pesce (Andrea Calabrese) a Sicilian member of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War is on his way to the frontline when he falls through a hole in time and into present day Spain. Finding himself in a small vill..
