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 AV-8B Harrier II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom (Osprey Combat Aircraft 104)
AV-8B Harrier II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom (Osprey Combat Aircraft 104)
Author: Lon Nordeen
AV-8B Harrier II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom
Osprey Publishing
Osprey Combat Aircraft 104
2014
Format: PDF (e-book)
Pages: 96
Size: 3 Mb
Language: English

In the 1970s the USMC bought the AV-8A Harrier from the UK whose VTOL capabilities allowed it to serve as a tactical aircraft that could deploy with Marine forces on amphibious assault ships and provide air cover and close air support from large deck aircraft carriers. Third in a trilogy on US Marine Corps Harrier IIs in combat, it will be the first volume to cover the whole story of the AV-8B's service employment during peacekeeping operations and then in Afghanistan.

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 Jane's Land-Based Air Defence 1992-93
Jane's Land-Based Air Defence 1992-93
Author: Tony Cullen, C.F. Foss
Jane's Land-Based Air Defence 1992-93
Janes Information Group
1992
Format: PDF
Pages: 348
Language: English
Size: 57.5 MB

This book lists essential information on all types of man portable, self-propelled, static and towed SAMs, and self-propelled and towed anti-aircraft guns and sights for installation on towed anti-aircraft guns. Each illustrated entry contains details of the development history, description, variants, specifications and manufacturer details. The book provides the necessary data to enable a rapid evaluation of all current in-service air defense weapons likely to be encountered on today's battlefield. All air-defense waepons are covered - static and mobile, in-service or under development. Key support systems such as radars and re-load vehicles are also detailed where applicable. An accurate overview of each country's air defense system is given showing details of quantities of systems in service and on order.

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 Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Society
Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Society
Author: Carl E. Van Horn
Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Society
ABC-Clio Inc
2003
Format: PDF
Size: 11.6 Mb
Language: English

Grade 9 Up–In this comprehensive overview of the evolution of labor, more than 250 succinct entries, ranging in length from a paragraph to several pages, discuss the cultural, economic, and political aspects of work and its impact on society. Although the 60-page index is only available in volume two, each book begins with an alphabetical and a topical listing of entries. Included are discussions of major social movements, such as capitalism, communism, and democratic socialism, and how they helped to shape our view of work; profiles of individuals; and some surprises such as the article on the comic strip "Dilbert." How technology has and continues to change work is demonstrated with exemplary entries on Amazon.com, the dot-com revolution, and e-commerce. The intent to include all aspects of work is established with discussions as varied as the mommy track, work in film, and cowboys. Each signed entry includes see-also references and suggestions for further reading. Pertinent black-and-white photos and illustrations enhance the clear text. This well-documented resource concludes with a five-page time line, charts, and other useful material.

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 Founding of the United States (All About History)
Founding of the United States (All About History)
Author: Collective
Founding of the United States (All About History)
Imagine Publishing
2014
ISBN: 1910439495
Format: PDF (e-book)
Pages 164
Size: 100 Mb
Language: English

All About History is the stunningly realised new magazine from the makers of How It Works and All About Space. Featuring beautiful illustrations, photos and graphics depicting everything from ancient civilisations to the Cold War, All About History is accessible and entertaining to all and makes history fun for the whole family.

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 The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Warfare
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Warfare
Author: Noble Frankland
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Warfare
Orion Books
1989
Format: PDF
Pages: 470
Language: English
Size: 116.3 MB

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Warfare provides for the first time in a single volume a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the wars and conflicts of the modern age. Its A to Z section contains more than 3,000 entries, defining and explaining for the nonspecialist the battles, the commanders, the weapons, and the strategic, tactical, and even political concepts involved in waging war. War was always a terrible scourge, but in the twentieth century it has become a complex and ambiguous activity, rarely fought with clear-cut notions of what total victory might mean, and more often than not ending inconclusively.

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 Nationalism and War
Nationalism and War
Author: John A. Hall (Editor), Siniša Malešević (Editor)
Nationalism and War
Cambridge University Press
2013
Format: PDF
Size: 1.6 Mb
Language: English

Has the emergence of nationalism made warfare more brutal? Does strong nationalist identification increase efficiency in fighting? Is nationalism the cause or the consequence of the breakdown of imperialism? What is the role of victories and defeats in the formation of national identities? The relationship between nationalism and warfare is complex, and it changes depending on which historical period and geographical context is in question. In 'Nationalism and War', some of the world's leading social scientists and historians explore the nature of the connection between the two. Through empirical studies from a broad range of countries, they explore the impact that imperial legacies, education, welfare regimes, bureaucracy, revolutions, popular ideologies, geopolitical change, and state breakdowns have had in the transformation of war and nationalism.

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 Armoured Warfare in the Korean War (Images of War)
Armoured Warfare in the Korean War (Images of War)
Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones
Armoured Warfare in the Korean War (Images of War)
Pen and Sword Military
2013
Format: EPUB
Pages: 160
Size: 8 Mb

After the Second World War, military analysts thought that the only place significant armored forces were ever likely to confront each other again was in central Europe where the Nato alliance would fend off the Soviet Red Army. Then during the Korean War of 1950-53 both sides deployed large numbers of armored fighting vehicles, and this neglected aspect of the conflict is the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history. Korea, with its rugged mountains, narrow passes, steep valleys and waterlogged fields was not ideal tank country so the armor mainly supported the infantry and rarely engaged in battles of maneuver. Yet the wide variety of armor supporting UN and North Korean forces played a vital if unorthodox role in the swiftly moving campaigns.

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 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare 21
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare 21
Author: Bernard Fitzsimons
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare 21
Columbia House
1978
Format: PDF
Pages: 128
Language: English
Size: 29 MB

Any profound understanding of the wars which have shaped our world depends on an understanding of the weapons with which they were fought. In these volumes, details of all the weapons of our century are gathered together in a single work. The facts and information packed into these magnificent volumes could only be duplicated in a library of reference works, and even then, so thorough has been the work of the contributors that new facts are constantly being brought to light, new theories advanced and old myths exploded. Includes Warships, Aircraft, Tanks, Small Arms, Missiles, Artillery...

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 Tanks
Tanks
Author: C. J. Norman
Tanks (Picture Library)
Franklin Watts Ltd
1986
Format: PDF
Pages: 38
Language: English
Size: 20.6 MB

In this book all sorts of tanks are highlighted, with material on their design, technology, and capabilities.

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 NATO and the Defense of the West
NATO and the Defense of the West
Author: Laurence W. Martin
NATO and the Defense of the West
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
1985
Format: PDF
Pages: 166
Language: English
Size: 13.5 MB

Laurence Martin, acknowledged as one of the foremost authorities on world defense issues, is uniquely qualified to examine and assess the strategic and tactical options open to NATO in its efforts to defend Europe, America's first line of defense, from possible attack. Illuminated with over one hundred specially commissioned and authoritatively researched full color drawings and maps, covering weapons, strategy and tactics.

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 Destroying Libya and World Order
Destroying Libya and World Order
Author: Francis A. Boyle
Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution
Clarity Press
2013
Format: PDF
Size: 5.21 MB
ISBN: 0985335378
Language: English

Francis Boyle provides a comprehensive history and critique of American foreign policy toward Libya from when the Reagan administration came to power in January of 1981 up to the 2011 NATO war on Libya that ultimately achieved the US goal of regime change, and beyond. He sets the record straight on the series of military conflicts and crises between the United States and Libya over the Gulf of Sidra, exposing the Reagan administration’s fraudulent claims of Libyan instigation of international terrorism put forward over his eight years in office. Boyle reveals the inside story behind the Lockerbie bombing cases against the United States and the United Kingdom that he filed at the World Court for Colonel Qaddafi acting upon his advice—and the unjust resolution of those disputes. Deploying standard criteria of international law, Boyle analyzes and debunks the UN R2P “responsibility to protect” doctrine and its immediate predecessor, “humanitarian intervention”.
The purported NATO protection in actuality led to 50,000 Libyan casualties, and the complete breakdown of law and order. And this is just the beginning. Boyle lays out the ramifications: the destabilization of the Maghreb and Sahel, and the French intervention in Mali—with the USA/NATO/Europe starting a new imperial scramble for the natural resources of Africa. This book is not only a classic case study of the conduct of US foreign policy as it relates to international law, but a damning indictment of the newly-contrived R2P doctrine as legal cover for Western intervention into third world countries.

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 Life in the Third Reich
Life in the Third Reich
Author: Richard Bessel
Life in the Third Reich
Oxford University Press
2001
Format: pdf
Size: 7 Mb
Language: English

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 Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
Author: Mark Lawrence Schrad
Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
Oxford University Press
2014
Format: epub/pdf
Size: 14 Mb
Language: English

Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics.
In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself-a history that is drenched in liquor. Scrutinizing (rather than dismissing) the role of alcohol in Russian politics yields a more nuanced understanding of Russian history itself: from palace intrigues under the tsars to the drunken antics of Soviet and post-Soviet leadership, vodka is there in abundance.
Beyond vivid anecdotes, Schrad scours original documents and archival evidence to answer provocative historical questions. How have Russia's rulers used alcohol to solidify their autocratic rule? What role did alcohol play in tsarist coups? Was Nicholas II's ill-fated prohibition a catalyst for the Bolshevik Revolution? Could the Soviet Union have become a world power without liquor? How did vodka politics contribute to the collapse of both communism and public health in the 1990s? How can the Kremlin overcome vodka's hurdles to produce greater social well-being, prosperity, and democracy into the future?
Viewing Russian history through the bottom of the vodka bottle helps us to understand why the "liquor question" remains important to Russian high politics even today-almost a century after the issue had been put to bed in most every other modern state. Indeed, recognizing and confronting vodka's devastating political legacies may be the greatest political challenge for this generation of Russia's leadership, as well as the next.

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 Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Author: Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Henry Holt and Co
ISBN: 080509668X
2014
Format: EPUB
Size: 3,0 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 368
Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus--riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now from Bill O’Reilly, anchor of The O’Reilly Factor, comes the most epic book of all in this multimillion-selling series: Killing Patton.
General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident--and may very well have been an act of assassination. Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton’s tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced.

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 Special Forces: The Men, the Weapons, and the Operations
Special Forces: The Men, the Weapons, and the Operations
Author: David Miller
Special Forces: The Men, the Weapons, and the Operations
Salamander Books Ltd
1999
Format: PDF
Pages: 184
Language: English
Size: 30 MB

This heavily illustrated volume covers in detail the elite special forces of the world, as increased responsibility for military operations falls on these smaller units of well-trained troops equipped with state-of-the-art weapons and equipment. Some units will be well-know to most readers, such as Britain's Special Air Service and Special Boat Squadron, America's SEALs and Delta Force, Germany's GSG-9, Russia's Spetsnaz, and France's Foreign Legion.Many readers will also learn for the first time about numerous other units, such as Israel's Sayerer Metkal, Egypt's Task Force 777, Argentina's Halcon Brigade, and Mexico's Force F "Zorros." Organization, selection, training, uniforms, weapons and equipment are covered for each unit. Maps, drawings, photographs and cut-away diagrams illustrate equipment and active operations. Famous missions such as the Scud missile hunt, aircraft hijackings, and the classic SAS storming of the Iranian embassy in London are covered with detailed photographs. The most up-to-date information available on NATO special forces in Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro, ignored by the American media, is also included.

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 Reagan and Pinochet: The Struggle over US Policy toward Chile
Reagan and Pinochet: The Struggle over US Policy toward Chile
Author: Morris Morley, Chris McGillion
Reagan and Pinochet: The Struggle over US Policy toward Chile
Cambridge University Press
2015
Pages: 294
Language: English
Format: PDF
Size: 2.51 mb

This book is the first comprehensive study of the Reagan administration's policy toward the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.

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 Armoured Warfare in the Vietnam War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Armoured Warfare in the Vietnam War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Michael Green
Armoured Warfare in the Vietnam War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Pen and Sword
Images of War
ISBN: 1781593817
2014
Format: EPUB
Pages: 192
Size: 26 Mb
Language: English

Historian and collector Michael Green shows in this fascinating and graphically illustrated book that the two wars that engulfed Indochina and North and South Vietnam over 30 years were far more armored in nature than typically thought of. By skillful use of imagery and descriptive text he describes the many variants deployed and their contribution.

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 Air War South Atlantic
Air War South Atlantic
Author: Jeffrey Ethell, Alfred Price
Air War South Atlantic
Jove Books
1987
Format: PDF
Pages: 292
Language: English
Size: 42.4 MB

Historically, Britain used some South Atlantic islands for naval bases. The populace wished to stay with Britain. In 1982, the Falklands went from diplomatic issue to military crisis. Lying closer to Argentina, the initiative was theirs; April 2nd, they overwhelmed small British units. Margaret Thatcher's government sent naval and air units on Apr 5. The photos herein, and the blow-by-blow record, put you in the cockpits or with the troops as they fought. This was a war of Sea Harriers, Exocet and laser guided bombs, to stand off from heavily defended targets.

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 The Smithsonian Book of Flight
The Smithsonian Book of Flight
Author: Walter J. Boyne
The Smithsonian Book of Flight
Smithsonian Books
1987
Format: PDF
Pages: 304
Language: English
Size: 52.6 MB

An account of the history of flight, chronicling the rapid evolution of aviation technology, from the Wright Flyer of 1903 to Paul MacCready's "Gossamer Condor", from the first balloons and gliders to Concorde. The work covers the effects of new technology on aviation design and also the strategic aspects of air power; the social, cultural and political impact of aviation technology; and the growth and recent re-retrenchment of the general aviation community.

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