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 Tanks 
 Author: Ian V. Hogg Tanks (Modern Military Techniques) Lerner Publications Company 1985 Format: PDF Pages: 54 Language: English Size: 64.7 MB A survey of the evolution of modern armored tanks, now equipped with computerized electronics, night vision, air filtration, and laser fire control systems, and their tasks and tactics today.
The Story of the U-505
 Author: Daniel V. Gallery The Story of the U-505 Museum of Science and Industry 1972 Format: PDF Pages: 36 Language: English Size: 27.7 MB The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago . . . since 1954 the permanent home of the captured German submarine U-505 . . . has been accorded world-wide recognition for its public services in the field of education. Eminently successful in its primary mission of visualizing the relationships between the latest discoveries in science and their adaptation by industry for man's progress and betterment . . . the Museum with its 14 acres of floor space . . . has for years been host to more than three million visitors annually, including increasingly sizable contingents from countries in every section of the globe.The Story of the U-505.pdf
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
 A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev Author: Vladislav M. Zubok The University of North Carolina Press 2009 Pages: 487 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 2 Mb This book features the Cold War from the Soviet side. In this widely praised book, Vladislav Zubok argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers the first work in English to cover the entire Cold War from the Soviet side. "A Failed Empire" provides a history quite different from those written by the Western victors. In a new preface for this edition, the author adds to our understanding of today's events in Russia, including who the new players are and how their policies will affect the state of the world in the twenty-first century.
Carrier Battle in the Philippine Sea
 Author: Barrett Tillman Carrier Battle in the Philippine Sea Phalanx 1994 ISBN: 1883809045 Format: PDF Size: 13,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 51 Renowned aviation historian, Barrett Tillman, has done a concise yet exhaustive job of research of the famed Marianas Turkey Shoot, the greatest air battle of the Pacific war. Because of in depth interviews much of the story is told by participants. These exciting accounts are augmented by Tillman's analysis. This large format book also provides both U.S. Navy and Japanese order of battle down to squadron level for both carrier and shore based aircraft. One map, 47 black and white photos. Six brush profiles of Hellcats, Avengers, Dauntlesses, Zeros, Judys and Vals (all by John Valo) provide a wealth of visual history. Final appendices supply losses and U.S. Navy aerial combat claims for this historic engagement of carrier aircraft. 48 pages, 47 b/w photos, six aircraft profiles, appendices, 8.5x11 inches, softcover.
A History of the Holocaust From Ideology to Annihilation
 Author: Rita Steinhardt Botwinick A History of the Holocaust: From Ideology to Annihilation Pearson 2013 Format: PDF Size: 56,3 МБ Language: English Pages: 288 Examines the causes of the Holocaust and the people involved. Told with scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy, this text provides important background information on Jewish life in Europe, the functions of the hierarchy within the Nazi government, and the psychological foundations of prejudice. Unlike other texts on the subject, A History of the Holocaust gives students an idea of just who the victims of the Holocaust were. In fact, the author tells this story from a unique point-of-view, having experienced Nazi Germany as a child.
The Hand Grenade (Osprey Weapon 38)
 Author: Gordon L. Rottman The Hand Grenade (Osprey Weapon 38) Osprey Publishing 2015 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 82 Size: 6 Mb Language: English Allowing the user to inflict damage on his opponent within throwing range without leaving cover, the portable, lethally efficient hand grenade is a ubiquitous weapon of modern warfare, and has now found its way into law-enforcement arsenals too. Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork and an array of revealing photographs of grenades in use and in close-up, this engaging study explores and assesses the origins, development, combat use, and lasting legacy of the formidable military hand grenade.
Twentieth-Century World History
 Author: William J. Duiker Twentieth-Century World History, 3rd Edition Wadsorth Publishing ISBN: 0534628117 2004 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 16.5 MB; 368 pages A comprehensive and balanced history of the world in the twentieth century, William Duiker's text not only chronicles the key events in this revolutionary century, but also examines the underlying issues that have shaped the times. TWENTIETH-CENTURY WORLD HISTORY takes a global approach to the subject while doing justice to the distinctive character of individual civilizations and regions. Duiker integrates political, economic, social, and cultural history, creating a chronologically ordered synthesis that gives students the true flavor of the most decisive moments in recent world history. In addition, Duiker's own photographs and selection of primary source documents, which illustrate much of the book, are especially effective in illustrating key points in the narrative.
Ammunition Handbook: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Munitions Handlers
 Ammunition Handbook: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Munitions Handlers Author: Department of the Army Pages: 47 Format: PDF Size: 29 mb Quality: Good Language: English 2001 FM 4-30.13 (FM9-13). This field manual provides ready reference and guidance for units and soldiers that handle munitions items. It is not a comprehensive manual, but it does provide useful data on important points of munitions service support. Also, it is a training tool for munitions units and soldiers.
Profile AFV - Weapons Profiles 62 - Commando, Twister and High Mobility Vehicles.
 Author: Christopher F. Foss Profile AFV - Weapons Profiles 62 - Commando, Twister and High Mobility Vehicles. Profile Publications Ltd 1973 Format: PDF Size: 11,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 24
Tunnel Rat in Vietnam
 Author: Tunnel Rat in Vietnam (Warrior 161) Osprey Publishing Ltd. 2012 Format: Pdf (E-book) Size: 5 Mb Language: English
Carnivore: A Memoir by One of the Deadliest American Soldiers of All Time
 Author: Dillard Johnson, James Tarr Carnivore: A Memoir by One of the Deadliest American Soldiers of All Time William Morrow Paperbacks ISBN: 0062288415 2013 Format: EPUB Size: 3,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 320 Amid ferocious fighting that many times nearly took his life, Sergeant Dillard "C. J." Johnson and his crew are recognized by Pentagon reports to have accounted for astonishing enemy KIA totals while battling inside and out of the "Carnivore," the Bradley Fighting Vehicle Johnson commanded during Operation Iraqi Freedom. After miraculously beating stage-three cancer (caused by radiation exposure from firing armor-piercing depleted-uranium rounds during combat), he returned to his platoon in Baghdad for a second tour, often serving as a sniper protecting his fellow troops. Today, Johnson and his men's story is the stuff of legend—earning them a cover story in Soldier of Fortune and a display in the Fort Stewart Museum. But only now is Johnson telling his full story: reviewed and approved for publication by the Department of Defense, Carnivore is the gripping and unflinchingly honest autobiography of a remarkable American warrior.
Never Give In! - The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
 Author: Collective Never Give In! - The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches Hyperion 2004 Format: PDF Pages: 529 Language: English Size: 24.5 MB Who can forget the words "We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!" They were uttered in 1940 by one of the 20th century's greatest orators, Winston Churchill, eager to spur on his countrymen in their fight against Nazi Germany. Now the great man's grandson has gathered Churchill's most memorable words, spanning more than half a century, in times of war and in times of peace. Part of Churchill's gift, his grandson writes, was his ability to address his radio listeners "not as unseen masses but as individuals-he envisioned his audience as a couple and their family gathered around their coal fire in the cottage-home." Churchill the editor introduces each speech with a bit of historical context and scene-setting. Any admirer of Churchill's will want to add this volume to their library.
Nestor Makhno - Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921
 Nestor Makhno - Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921 Author: Alexandre Skirda AK Press 2004 Pages: 400 Format: PDF Size: 259 Mb Language: English The phenomenal life of Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno (1888–1934) provides the framework for this breakneck account of the downfall of the tsarist empire and the civil war that convulsed and bloodied Russia between 1917 and 1921. As in many of history's chivalric tales, clashes were fought through lightning cavalry charges and bitter hand-to-hand, saber-wielding combat. The combatants were drawn from several camps: Budyenny's Red cavalry, the Don Cossacks and Kuban Cossacks (allied with the Whites), Ukrainian nationalists, and Makhnovist partisans. Makhno, a formidable and daring strategist, headed an army of anarchist insurgents—a popular peasant movement which bore his name.
The Pity of War
 Author: Niall Ferguson The Pity of War Basic Books 2000 Format: PDF Pages: 661 Language: English Size: 40.4 MB If someone less distinguished than Jesus College, Oxford, fellow Niall Ferguson had written The Pity of War, you could be forgiven for thinking the book was out for a few cheap headlines by contradicting almost every accepted orthodoxy about the First World War. Ferguson argues that Britain was as much to blame for the start of the war as Germany, and that, had Britain sacrificed Belgium to Germany, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution would never have happened. Germany, he continues, would have created a united European state, and Britain could have remained a superpower. He also contends that there was little enthusiasm for the war in Britain in 1914; on the other hand, he claims the war was prolonged not by clever manipulation of the media, but by British soldiers' taking pleasure in combat. If that isn't enough, he further maintains that it wasn't the severity of the conditions imposed on Germany at Versailles in 1919 that led inexorably to World War II, and blames instead the comparative leniency and the failure to collect reparations in full. The Pity of War, with no pretensions to offering a grand narrative of the war, goes over its chosen questions like a polemical tract. As such it is immensely readable, well researched, and controversial. You may not end up agreeing with all of Ferguson's arguments, but that should not deter you from reading it. All of us need our deeply held views challenged from time to time, even if only to remind us why we've got them.
Hawker Harrier: Warfare with Vertical Velocity (Aeroplane Icons)
 Hawker Harrier: Warfare with Vertical Velocity Author: Tim McLelland Key Publishing Aeroplane Icons ISBN: 978 1909786820 2015 Language: English Pages: 116 Format: PDF Size: 27,5 MB Aeroplane ICONS is a series of bookazines telling the stories of iconic aircraft. Taking an in-depth look at a selection of Britain’s most worthy and pioneering aircraft from the 1930s to the 1960s, each issue focuses exclusively on a single aircraft type, charting its design, production, flight-testing, variants and ensuing career. Military exploits and daring escapades are thrillingly recalled with pilot recollections and historical records, while testimonies from designers and engineers detail the efforts required to get their creations airborne.
Command of the Sea: The History and Strategy of Maritime Empires
 Author: Clark G. Reynolds Command of the Sea: The History and Strategy of Maritime Empires Krieger Pub Co ISBN: 0898746299 1984 Format: PDF Size: 10,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 689 This book consequently seeks to discover the strategic alternatives and constants governing navies and empires throughout the continuum of history by raising hypotheses to be tested by historical examination and by future action. It therefore examines the natural factors such as geography and topography, the political and economic aspects of empire building, the cultural and intellectual manifestations, technology and the tactical evolution of naval forces. Together, these elements define the concept of sea power-in the twentieth century A.D. as well as in the twentieth century B.C. Sea power, when applied to command of the major waterways of the world, indeed emerges as "a great thing"-in the past, today and for the foreseeable future.
Meltdown - The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
 Author: Mike Chinoy Meltdown - The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis St. Martin's Griffin 2009 Format: PDF Pages: 418 Language: English Size: 22 MB The Bush administration's bellicose but feckless attempts to quash North Korea's nuclear weapons program were the nadir of its famously maladroit diplomacy, to judge by this revealing blow-by-blow. Ex-CNN Pyongyang correspondent Chinoy details the rancorous infighting during which hardliners like John Bolton and Dick Cheney talked down State Department doves to impose an intransigent North Korea policy, replacing negotiations with Axis-of-Evil rhetoric and unilateral demands. Their approach backfired disastrously, he argues, as Pyongyang restarted and escalated its dormant nuclear initiative and finally tested an atom bomb while the U.S. fulminated helplessly—a needless outcome, he suggests, given the North Koreans' oft-expressed readiness to abandon their nuclear program in exchange for aid and normalized relations. Chinoy presents a lucid exposition of the issues along with a colorful account of diplomatic wrangling in which U.S. officials rivaled their North Korean counterparts in dogmatism and prickly sensitivity to niceties. (One joint statement was almost derailed when the Americans insisted on changing the phrase peaceful coexistence to exist peacefully together.) His is a fine, insightful diplomatic history of a dire confrontation—and a hard-hitting critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy.
The Airline Builders
 Author: Oliver Allen The Airline Builders (The Epic of Flight) Time-Life Books 1981 Format: PDF Pages: 186 Language: English Size: 26.5 MB Another well researched and written book from Time-Life, this book details the founding and early years of America's major airlines. It contains a wealth of information on the personalities, struggles , competition and even the airplanes that constituted these new giants of transportation. A suprising fact was that the airline routes were really established by the U.S. Postmaster General, when airmail accounted for more revenue to the airlines than passenger fares. A must have for aviation enthusiasts.
The Soviet Motorized Rifle Company
 Author: Collective The Soviet Motorized Rifle Company Defense Intelligence Agency 1976 Format: PDF Pages: 133 Language: English Size: 24 MB This study examines Soviet offensive and defensive doctrine and the organization, training, tactics and equipment of the Soviet motorized rifle company. Emphasis placed on the company equipped with the infantry combat vehicle (BMP).
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