1.   Elves are taught the arts of war from an early age and swiftly master the sword, the bow and the spear.

2.   Like Los Alamos, it was cradled by mountains and hastily built in order to win a war from an odd angle.

3.   Much more inspiring and less frequent were the sight and sounds of soldiers Marching to war from drill hall to station.

4.   It was a hopeless war from the start, in spite of the gallantry of the Finnish Army, and most of the fighter planes available were outdated.

5.   A spellbinding raconteur with an inexhaustible fund of anecdotes, Coyle can expound on wars from ancient Greece to Operation Desert Storm.

6.   Britain has been in the war from the start, supplying submarines, an aircraft carrier and support ships and firing cruise missiles.

7.   Bush would not say if he will seek a formal declaration of war from Congress.

8.   But reporting the gulf war from Saudi Arabia and Baghdad whetted an appetite for conflict that has made her the most visible war correspondent of her generation.

9.   But media reports from Afghanistan said the Taliban appeared to be abandoning Kandahar, possibly to wage a guerrilla war from the mountains.

10.   But suspicions linger that FDR somehow invited the attack or allowed it to happen in order to more easily obtain a declaration of war from Congress.