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 A Brief History Of Iraq 
 Author: Fattah H., Caso F. A Brief History Of Iraq Facts on File 2008 Pages: 318 Language: english Format: PDF Size: 10.24 mb This is a comprehensive guide to more than 6,000 years of history in Iraq.Covering everything from the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations to the fall of Saddam Hussein and the current war in Iraq, this comprehensive book examines the changing landscape of this interesting country. Because of its porous frontiers, its accommodating soil and climate, its diverse inhabitants, and its many cultures, Iraq's history over the millennia has been one of interaction, adaptation, acculturation, and modification. This new volume focuses on the societies, peoples, and cultures of Iraq, as well as the regional influences that shaped the ethnicities, religions, sects, and national groups in this country.This title includes coverage on: Iraq, the first society; The Persian Empire, Alexander the Great, and the Sassanians; Iraq under the Umayyad dynasty; Iraq under the Abbasid dynasty; The Mongol invasion and early Ottoman rule; Iraq under the Ottomans; British occupation and the Iraqi monarchy; The growth of the republican regimes and the emergence of Baathist Iraq; The rule of Saddam Hussein and the difficult legacy of the mukhabarat state; and, The war in Iraq.
Baling Out: Amazing Dramas of Military Flying
 Author: Robert Jackson Baling Out: Amazing Dramas of Military Flying Pen & Sword Aviation ISBN: 1844153479 2006 Format: EPUB Pages: 192 Size: 4 Mb Language: English To bale out of a stricken airplane is a pilot's or aircrew's final chance to escape death. It is a traumatic and hazardous exercise that is only practiced in extremis and is in itself full of danger with no guarantee of survival. Many struggled free of a flaming and spinning aircraft only to see their parachute alight above them, some were machine gunned to death by their opponents as they drifted to earth, some landed in mine-fields and were blown apart and many landed in forests and died suspended from the treetops. And yet many survived, some to fight again and some to become prisoners of war.
Great Ages of Man - Twentieth Century
 Author: Joel Colton Great Ages of Man - Twentieth Century Time-Life Books 1975 Format: PDF Pages: 216 Language: English Size: 32.7 MB To become "a citizen of the world" has ever been one of the noblest dreams of man. But only in the 20th Century have the barriers preventing worldwide community been successfully bridged and the old ideal of a global fraternity become a practical possibility. Indeed the beams and girders of a new civilization, rising above the confines of nation and continent, are being set in place at this very moment. They constitute a peculiarly modern international culture, one that corresponds to none of the patterns that history has provided. The world culture of the 20th Century has at its center neither a Greek design nor a Roman ideal. It recalls neither Alexander the Great's vision of an oikumene (the whole inhabited world) that transcends boundaries by stressing the fundamental unity of mankind, nor the empire of Augustus that bound together varied peoples without inhibiting their rich variety. It is, rather, an internationalism based on the brash realities of technology, and one must wonder whether that is the stuff of which great civilizations are built.
Allied Participation in Vietnam
 Allied Participation in Vietnam Author: James Lawton Collins Department of the Army Pages: 200 Format: PDF Size: 15 mb Quality: Good Language: English 2005 The story of the efforts of more than 40 nations to assist the Republic of Vietnam in its struggle against North Vietnam including assistance as doctors, teachers, technical specialists, combat troops, medical teams, and political warfare advisors.
Military Prototypes of the 1950s
 Author: Michael J.H. Taylor Military Prototypes of the 1950s (Warbirds Illustrated 18) Arms and Armour Press 1984 Format: PDF Pages: 72 Language: English Size: 51.2 MB This Arms and Armour Press Warbirds Illustrated edition describes Military Prototypes of the 1950s. Fully illustrated.
Fromelles
 Author: Dr Peter Pedersen Fromelles Pen and Sword Battleground Europe 2004 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 43 Mb Language: English The attack at Fromelles is significant for a number of reasons. It was the Australians' first major operation on the Western Front and pitted them against a part of the German line that was an object lesson in the sitting of a defence. The objectives and the tactics employed to achieve them were changed several times and the sufficiency of resources vigorously debated. After the war, the British and Australian Official Historians argued as to how the battle should be interpreted. Most of the correspondence that accompanied their exchange of drafts has not been published and makes compelling reading.
Ark Royal
 Author: Collective Ark Royal His Majesty's Stationery Office 1942 Format: PDF Pages: 68 Language: English Size: 10.2 MB The official wartime account of the career of one of history's most famous aircraft carriers.
Wings 2012 (Warbirds Over the Beach)
 Author: Collective Wings 2012 (Warbirds Over the Beach) Military Aviation Museum 2012 Format: PDF Pages: 52 Language: English Size: 20.7 MB
The Gulf War
 Author: Nick Childs The Gulf War Rourke Enterprises, Inc. 1989 Format: PDF Pages: 86 Language: English Size: 12.2 MB On September 22, 1980, waves of Iraqi MiG fighters streaked into Iran to attack ten military bases and airports across the country, including a military air base just outside the Iranian capital, Tehran. These missions were clearly meant to destroy the bulk of the Iranian air force on the ground. In fact, they failed. But, even so, fifteen hours after the first air raids had begun, Iraqi ground forces started moving into Iranian territory along a 350-mile front...
U.S. Air Force Special Forces: Combat Controllers
 Author: Kim Covert U.S. Air Force Special Forces: Combat Controllers Capstone Press 2000 Format: PDF Pages: 54 Language: English Size: 29 MB Provides an introduction to the Air Force Special Forces Combat Controllers, their history and development, missions, training, and equipment.
Luftwaffe Fighter Aces
 Author: Mike Spick Luftwaffe Fighter Aces Ballantine Books 1996 Format: PDF Pages: 284 Language: English Size: 48.8 MB Flying has no equivalent, while war is the second-oldest profession. Combined, they are the ultimate in human experience. The fighter pilot is the modem equivalent of the ancient single combat champion, whose worth was measured by the number of his victories. Yet no champion of old ever approached the number of victories attributed to the leading fighter pilots of the Luftwaffe in the Second World War. What sort of men were they?
The Korean War: A History
 Author: Bruce Cumings The Korean War: A History Modern Library 2010 Format: mobi Size: 1.6Mb Language: English For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describes its origin as a civil war, preordained long before the first shots were fired in June 1950 by lingering fury over Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Cumings then shares the neglected history of America’s post–World War II occupation of Korea, reveals untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, and tells of the United States officially entering the action on the side of the South, exposing as never before the appalling massacres and atrocities committed on all sides.
State Building in Putin's Russia
 State Building in Putin's Russia Author: Brian D. Taylor Cambridge University Press Graduation Year: 2011 Language: English Format: Pdf Pages: 392 Size: 4,2 Mb The Soviet Union has been characterized as “the world’s largest-ever police state.” But why is “police state” a pejorative, a synonym for brutal dictatorship? After all, if we expect the state to do anything, policing is surely one of those things. Although policing is a function that can and often is carried out by private actors, all modern states create “an organization authorized by a collectivity to regulate social relations within itself by utilizing, if need be, physical force.” Try living in a community of any significant size that does not have an authorized organization capable of policing it, and one will quickly see the virtues of such a force. Anarchists aside, most citizens in the modern world would rather live with police than without them. But the term “police state” resonates because state power, as Max Weber recognized, ultimately rests on the ability to coerce. The behavior of its coercive organizations, such as the military, the police, and the secret police, tells us much about the character of a state, as the Marenin epigraph emphasizes.
Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History
 Author: Ira M. Lapidus Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History Cambridge University Press 2012 Format: PDF Size: 16.6 Mb Language: English Ira Lapidus' global history of Islamic societies, first published in 1988, has become a classic in the field. For over two decades, it has enlightened students, scholars, and others with a thirst for knowledge about one of the world's great civilizations. This book is based on parts one and two of Lapidus' monumental A History of Islamic Societies, revised and updated, describes the transformations of Islamic societies from their beginning in the seventh century, through their diffusion across the globe, into the challenges of the nineteenth century. The story focuses on the organization of families and tribes, religious groups and states, depicts them in their varied and changing contexts, and shows how they were transformed by their interactions with other religious and political communities into a varied, global and interconnected family of societies. The book concludes with the European commercial and imperial interventions that initiated a new set of transformations in the Islamic world, and the onset of the modern era. Organized in narrative sections for the history of each major region, with innovative, analytic summary introductions and conclusions, this book is a unique endeavor. Its breadth, clarity, style, and thoughtful exposition will ensure its place in the classroom and beyond as a guide for the educated reader.
Mandela: A biography
 Author: Meredith, Martin Mandela: A biography Language: English N.Y.: PublicAffairs 2010 Format: pdf Size: 16,6 mb Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy there. Martin Meredith's vivid portrayal of this towering leader was originally acclaimed as "an exemplary work of biography: instructive, illuminating, as well as felicitously written" (Kirkus Reviews), providing "new insights on the man and his time" (Washington Post). Now Meredith has revisited and significantly updated his biography to incorporate a decade of additional perspective and hindsight on the man and his legacy and to examine how far his hopes for the new South Africa have been realised. Published as South Africa celebrates 100 years since its founding and hosts the 2010 World Cup, Nelson Mandela is the most thorough and up-to-date account available of the life of its most revered hero
Fidel Castro: My Life
 Author: Castro Fidel & Ignacio Ramonet Fidel Castro: My Life Scribners 2007 Format: PDF Size: 11.2 Mb Language: English Castro is one of the most misunderstood persons in the world. Read this book and you will learn about the real Fidel Castro, in his own words.
Hill 60: Ypres (Battleground Europe)
 Author: Nigel Cave Hill 60: Ypres (Battleground Europe) Pen and Sword Military 2013 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 26 Mb Language: English The shell-ravaged landscape of Hill 60, some three miles south east of Ypres, conceals a labyrinth of tu nnels and underground workings. This book offers a guide to the memorials, cemeteries and museums at the site '
Engineering in the Royal Navy
 Engineering in the Royal Navy Author: W. J. Tydeman British Machine Tool Makers Ltd Pages: 134 Format: PDF Size: 16 mb Quality: Good Language: English 1945
Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military
 Author: Robert B. Edgerton Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1997 Format: PDF Pages: 396 Language: English Size: 52.2 MB Warriors of the Rising Sun chronicles the Japanese military's transformation from honorable "knights of Bushido" into men who massacred thousands during the Pacific War. Crucial in bringing about this change was Western rejection of Japan as an aspiring colonial power, as well as the West's racist, anti-Japanese immigration policies. Japan's leaders chose military brutality as a necessary means to achieve a rightful place in the world. Today, Japan has the second largest military budget in the world. What lessons have her leaders learned from the past wars?
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