To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.

Massachusetts-based Hardcore Punk band Defeater has released two full length albums and one EP telling the story of an alcoholic WWII veteran and the trials and tribulations of his family.

The story of a Korean War veteran, brainwashed by the Communist Chinese to assassinate a candidate for President, co-starred Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury as Harvey's evil mother.

He appeared in the HBO Films production of Taking Chance, a film based on a story of the same name written by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl, an American ' Desert Storm ' war veteran.

An elderly war veteran takes him into town for a drink, and Alvin tells a story about how he is haunted by a memory of accidentally shooting one of his military comrades.

As the series developed, veteran writer Jack Mendelsohn came on board as both a story editor and scriptwriter.

According to an often-told story, during one of the earliest of the royal couple's repeated encounters with the crowds, a Boer War veteran asked Elizabeth, " Are you Scots or are you English?

In 1979 Ian MacNaughton made a short humorous film, written by Galton and Simpson called Le Pétomane, based on Pujol's story and starring veteran comic actor Leonard Rossiter.

The story can be traced back to The Ballad of Mulan and Disney's Mulan casts the title character in much the same way as the original legenda tomboy daughter of a respected veteran, somewhat troubled by not being the " sophisticated lady " her society expects her to be.

Gordon is also revealed to be a veteran of the Vietnam War and the counter-culture of the 1960s, occasionally referred to in the flash-forward narratives during the main story.

In 1984, again under the Andrew Macdonald pen name, William Pierce published another novel, Hunter, which tells the story of a man named Oscar Yeager, a veteran of the Vietnam War and F-4 Phantom pilot who assassinates mixed-raced couples.

Curtis ' comedies include Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), Sex and the Single Girl ( 1964 ) and The Great Race ( 1965 ), and his dramas included playing the slave Antoninus in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus ( 1960 ) co-starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, The Outsider ( 1961 ), the true story of WW II veteran Ira Hayes, and The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), in which he played the self-confessed murderer of the film's title, Albert DeSalvo.

The Tree of Life producer Bill Pohlad and veteran television writer and producer John Wells ( E. R., The West Wing ) have teamed to develop a drama based on Wilson's personal and professional story.

The story also features Charles Constantine ( a member of the same infamous family as John Constantine ), a World War I veteran who has repeatedly struggled with his inability to kill.

" In Hollywood, the story is known as " You First ," and is often alluded to when veteran creators find that upstarts are unfamiliar with their work.

Originally, Dowd ’ s story, tentatively titled Buffalo Ghosts, focused on two women, volunteers at a veteran ’ s hospital, who must come to grip with the emotional toll the war takes on its casualties and their families.

The kulknappen or bullet-button story is further corroborated by other evidence ; the soldier who found the bullet and brought it home was called “ Nordstierna ”, which really was the name of a veteran of the Northern War who worked in a farm at Deragard where the bullet was recovered from the gravel pit.

But the most common version traces it to the story of Dutch Fred The Cop, a veteran policeman, who with his rookie partner, was watching a small riot on West 39th Street near 10th Avenue.

Peter Milligan, a veteran of the Vertigo line, having written both Shade, The Changing Man and Animal Man at the publisher's inception, then took over, starting with a short story in the landmark 250th issue, and taking over full-time following this.

Within These Walls, a prison drama starring veteran actress Googie Withers, seems to have inspired the later Australian soap opera Prisoner Cell Block H. Lillie was based on the real-life story of Lillie Langtry, and saw Francesca Annis reprising the role from ATV's Edward the Seventh, and The Gentle Touch starring Jill Gascoine was the UK's first drama series with a female police detective in the lead role.

However Tom Mangold, the BBC veteran investigative reporter who broke the story, claims the British dealer supplying the missile recommended to the undercover FBI agent that the President's jet, rather than a commercial jet, be the target, saying that he could get another 60 Ingla missiles which could then be used to launch a co-ordinated attack on Air Force One.

For example, novelist Tim O ' Brien, a Vietnam War veteran, writes in his short story collection The Things They Carried about a character named " Tim O ' Brien " and his war experiences in Vietnam.

The novel tells the story of Tayo, a veteran of Laguna and white ancestry returning from fighting against Japan in World War II.

A painted cover by veteran science-fiction pulp artist Frank R. Paul featured the Human Torch, looking much different than in the interior story.

While ostensibly set in the early eighteenth century, there are references to the Napoleonic Wars and other indicators that the story is contemporary to the time of its writing in the mid-nineteenth century.

* The Duel, a short story by Joseph Conrad, recounts the story based on true events of two French Hussar officers who carry a long grudge and fight in duels each time they meet during the Napoleonic wars.

A local story says that the recipe came from a grateful Napoleonic soldier in 1795, whose wounds were treated by a baker's family in the little town of Burg.

Set in nineteenth-century England, the story centres around the fictional " Waterloo " tontine, established to benefit veterans of the Napoleonic wars.

Bushey Heath ’ s story begins in the Napoleonic Wars during a large food shortage.

* The three-volume La Vampire ( 1825 ) by Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon which tells the story of a young Napoleonic army officer who bring his Hungarian fiancée home to later discover that she is a vampire, and Le Diable Devil ( 1832 ) featuring the charismatic, evil Chevalier Draxel.

The story takes place over the course of five days in 1811 and one day in 1812, at a time in history, when Poland-Lithuania had already been divided between the armies of Russia, Prussia, and Austria ( see Partitions of Poland ) and erased from the political map of Europe, although in 1807, just before the story begins, Napoleon had established a satellite Duchy of Warsaw in the Prussian partition, in existence until the Congress of Vienna held in the aftermath of Napoleonic defeat.

In Ut de Franzosentid the scene is laid in and near Stavenhagen in the year 1813, and the characters of the story are associated with the great events of the Napoleonic wars which then stirred the heart of Germany to its depths.

The Changing the World gallery tells the story of the French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars and British involvement in India from 1794 to 1904.

The opera, with a libretto by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal based on a story by Mélésville, involves an emotional drama of mistaken identities during the Napoleonic wars.

According to Sir John Major in More Than A Game, the story is unlikely to be true for reasons of fashion more than cricket because hooped skirts were out of fashion during the period of the Napoleonic War.

The " Vulcan Soul " Trilogy, written by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz, told the story that it was Surak's idea that some of the Vulcan population should leave their homeworld to find a new home so that the Vulcan race could be preserved due to the endless wars then raging on the homeworld.

Murrow's nightly reports from the rooftops during the dark days of the London Blitz galvanized American listeners: even before Pearl Harbor, the conflict became " the story of the survival of Western civilization, the most heroic of all possible wars and stories.

Although the film followed the story rather closely ( except for the lack of references to Venus, Titan, flying cars, skull phones, temporary marriages, time-distortion drugs, nuclear wars and governmental " Schedules ") it was not successful with either the critics or the public.

It tells a post-apocalyptic story: racial wars have torn the USA apart and Jeremiah and his friend Kurdy are trying to find their place in the new world.

Bill Williams, an FBI agent in Natchez for two years during that time said in a 2005 interview that the " race wars in the area are ' a story never told ,' that Natchez in 1964 had become the ' focal point for racial, anti-civil rights activity for the state for the next several years '.

It's a story that enables us to look at our history not as the history of class struggle, wars, and repressions, but a history of people and personal achievements.

* Dillon, Richard H. The hatchet men: the story of the tong wars in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Among the stories described in this section are the romance of Zal and Rudāba, the Seven Stages ( or Labors ) of Rostam, Rostam and Sohrab, Sīyāvash and Sudāba, Rostam and Akvān Dīv, the romance of Bijan and Manijeh, the wars with Afrāsīyāb, Daqiqi's account of the story of Goshtāsp and Arjāsp, and Rostam and Esfandyār.

Regardless, the story has come to symbolize the plight of all the children in all the wars and has been the inspiration for one of the most moving and successful Italian songs in the 1960s.

* Mangold, Tom ; Goldberg, Jeff, Plague wars: a true story of biological warfare, Macmillan, 2000.

The new take will set the story in contemporary times with modern wars as the backdrop.

Women on the Land: Their story during two world wars, Lutterworth Press ( 1990 ), ISBN 978-0-7188-2814-1.

The net effect of these wars is summed up by a retrospective comment from Beowulf Schaeffer in the short story " Grendel ": " The Kzinti aren't really a threat.

Therefore, from the Ayutthaya period, the story of Saraburi has usually related to battles and wars.

The inscription in Book XI reads: " In this book are recorded the last writings of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien concerning the wars of Beleriand, here also is told the story of how Húrin Thalin brought ruin to the Men of Brethil, with much else concerning the Edain and Dwarves and the names of many peoples in the speech of the Elves.

A museum telling the story of Felixstowe, with a reference library, historic maps, photo archive and 14 rooms of artefacts from Roman finds, the Martello towers, military social and domestic history through two world wars and into the new millennium is managed by volunteers from the Felixstowe History and Museum Society.

The popular story handed down within reiver families is that from earliest times, reivers would visit the homesteads prior to wars or invasions and remove the cattle and items of value to a place of safety.

The story is one of the subjects of the documentary film, info wars.

In the belts, the colors were manipulated so that pictographic images told a symbolic story and these were given to honor important actions by the Great Grand Councils and Maweomis for peace treaties, wars, marriages, and other significant events.

The Commission found an appealing story: baseball was invented in a quaint rural town without foreigners or industry, by a young man who later graduated from West Point and served heroically in the Mexican-American War, Civil War, and U. S. wars against Indians.

For cost reasons ( much of the story was set in Indochina against the background of wars there ) the BBC did not film The Honourable Schoolboy, the middle novel of the Quest for Karla trilogy — even the Far Eastern parts of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy were relocated to Portugal for the television adaptation.