War of Mine

In the wake of the Second World War, the Danish authorities force thousands of German prisoners of war to defuse the millions of mines buried on Danish beaches.

In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.

La Seconda guerra mondiale è finita quando un gruppo di prigionieri di guerra tedeschi viene catturato dall'esercito danese. Ancora ragazzi e non ancora uomini, i prigionieri sono costretti a un nuovo tipo di servizio sotto il comando di un brusco sergente danese. Rischiando la vita, scopriranno che il conflitto è tutt'altro che terminato.

Featuring Appalachia's leading scholars and activists, Written in Blood offers an accurate and uncensored understanding of coal mining history. Combining new revelations from the past with sketches of a sane path forward, this collection considers our past, present, and future. Sociologist Wess Harris further documents the infamous Esau scrip system for women, suggesting an institutionalized practice of forced sexual servitude that was part of coal company policy.

More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war since World War Two, yet as soldiers they are still painfully alone. In Iraq, only one in ten troops is a woman, and she often serves in a unit with few other women or none at all. This isolation, along with the military’s deep-seated hostility toward women, causes problems that many female soldiers find as hard to cope with as war itself: degradation, sexual persecution by their comrades, and loneliness, instead of the camaraderie that every soldier depends on for comfort and survival. As one female soldier said, “I ended up waging my own war against an enemy dressed in the same uniform as mine.”

In 1916, during the battle of Verdun, a huge German mine destroys an important French fort and kills general Nivelle. However, the explosion uncovers a strange and massive machine which had been buried in the ground beneath the fort for centuries.