The book is filled with telling anecdotes: the Cu Chi Tunnel soldiers who look at an overweight Western woman, unable to fit through the dug-out warrens, calculating the wealth of someone so fat.

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At least 30 people were killed Wednesday, including defecting soldiers and a woman, the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria reported.

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We've seen some very emotional pictures of one woman giving her baby to one of the soldiers, shouting, "Look what you are doing to her future!"

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An old woman said that Russian soldiers had gone from house to house, throwing grenades into the cellars even though they knew that only civilians were present.

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Some of their aims, such as abortion by choice, brought them into conflict with a regime that said it was a woman's patriotic duty to have a large family to provide soldiers and colonise the country's expanding empire.

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On February 9th a woman travelling with displaced people blew herself up when about to be searched by soldiers manning the entry point at Vishwamadu.

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The woman was believed to have been on a walk and went beyond the resort's boundaries when the North Korean soldiers were ordered to shoot, North Korean authorities said, according to Hyundai Asan, the South Korean tour company that books the trips.

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