However, despite his heroics, he was dealt a heavy personal blow when one of his brothers lost his life during the four-year conflict.

Around 300 skulls were taken from the Herero and ethnic Nama who died in German-run prison camps over the four-year conflict, according to some estimates.

The four-year conflict between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army remains the largest and possibly the most ferocious ever fought.

The American Civil War was a four-year armed conflict between northern and southern sections of the United States.

This transfer ended the four-year conflict between Indonesian nationalists and the Netherlands that was fought over for control of Indonesia.

It was but the latest failure to end the four-year conflict, and the Rally for Democracy is now the main holdout to peace.

We should, of course, recollect that at least 200 000 people have died in Darfur during the four-year conflict, and more than two million people have been forced from their homes.

If the pilot is not rescued, he would be the first American casualty or prisoner-of-war of the intractable four-year conflict, and a rallying point for those who oppose involvement.

These events led to the outbreak of the Civil War--a brutal, bloody, four-year conflict that left the South defeated and ended slavery at the cost of more than half a million lives.

The four-year conflict took the lives of 400,000 Americans.