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 Modern Soviet Armor: Combat Vehicles of the USSR and Warsaw Pact Today
Modern Soviet Armor: Combat Vehicles of the USSR and Warsaw Pact Today
Author: Steven J. Zaloga
Modern Soviet Armor: Combat Vehicles of the USSR and Warsaw Pact Today
Prentice-Hall Inc.
1979
Format: PDF
Pages: 94
Language: English
Size: 58.2 MB

This book from famous Steven J. Zaloga tells about Modern Soviet Armor, Combat Vehicles of the USSR and Warsaw Pact Today with 270 illustrations including 16 in full color 88 pages.

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 The Year in Special Operations 2014-2015
The Year in Special Operations 2014-2015
Author: Collective
The Year in Special Operations 2014-2015
Faircount LLC
2014
Format: PDF
Pages: 132
Size: 113 Mb
Language: English

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 I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me
I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me
Author:Trevor Paglen
I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me
Melville House Publishing
2007
Language: English
Format: PDF
Size: 76.5 MB


They are on the shoulders of all military personnel: patches showing what a soldiers unit does. But what if that is Top Secret?

In a work that combines ingenious journalism and bizarrely encoded art, author/photographer/investigator Trevor Paglen uncovers 75 never-before-seen-in-public military patches that reveal a bizarre secret world of the American military. Paglen investigates classified weapons projects and intelligence operations by examining their own imagery and jargon, disclosing new facts about important classified military units—here known by peculiar names (“Goat Suckers,” “None of Your Fucking Business,” “Tastes Like Chicken”) and illustrated with occult symbols and ridiculous cartoons. The precisely photographed patches—worn by military personnel working on classified missions, such as those at the legendary Area 51—reveal much about a strange and eerie world about which little was previously known.

The author has also assembled an extensive and readable guide, based on extensive interviews with military sources and government records, to the patches included here, making this volume perhaps the best available survey of the militarys black world—a $27 billion industry that has quietly grown by almost 50 percent since 9/11.

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 Ground Attack Planes
Ground Attack Planes
Author: David Baker
Ground Attack Planes (The Military Aircraft Library)
Rourke Enterprises Inc.
1989
Format: PDF
Pages: 54
Language: English
Size: 26.5 MB

The Military Aircraft Library From the fastest and highest flying planes to the largest and strongest of nations defenders, these books will thrill the readers with the latest military photographs. The informative text, glossary, index and acronymn lists of each title, provides the reader with easy access to factual information for reference reports. The author is an international authority in military techniques.

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 The Year in Defence: Naval Edition
The Year in Defence: Naval Edition
Author: Collective
The Year in Defence: Naval Edition
Faircount LLC
2010 Spring
Format: PDF (e-book)
Pages: 84
Size: 34 Mb
Language: English

The Year in Defense is one of today’s leading military and defense information sources for leaders and managers within the American defense community and industrial base. The publication reviews significant activities in the U.S. Department of Defense and military departments over the recent 12-month period while previewing the year ahead.

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 A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol.1-4
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol.1-4
Author: Winston S. Churchill
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol.1-4
Barnes & Noble, Inc.
2005
Format: PDF/ePub
Size: 18.6 Mb
Language: English

During the 1930's Winston Churchill was enduring his "wilderness years" and was quite prolific in his journalistic efforts. Mr. Churchill began this rather ambitious effort of the history of the English Speaking Peoples in 1937.
This four volume effort wasn't published until the years of 1956-1958. You see Winston had to serve England as Prime Minister from 1939 to 1945. After that he had to write his Nobel Prize winning 6 volume compilation of World War II. During this time Sir Winston was the leader of the Conservative opposition party from 1945 to 1951. After that he again served as Prime Minister until 1955.
Mr. Churchill didn't finish this history of the English Speaking Peoples until he was in his early 80's. One thing about Mr. Churchill, he didn't let any grass grow under his feet.
As a great writer and historian, Mr. Churchill has always had a bias of the English language, laws and its history. Being the master of the English written word, it seems quite right that it was he to write this historical sketch of the English people. Winston goes into great depth of the birth of England and its subsequent development including all the detailed trials and tribulations. He details the narrative of the monarchy into the development of a Democratic form of government.
The rather long history is divided into four books as follows:
1.) The Birth of Britain
2.) The New World
3.) The Age of Revolution
4.) The Great Democracies
Churchill expounds of the development and governance of the British Empire. He also details much of American history, especially the minutiae of the Civil War.

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 The Year in Defence: Naval Edition
The Year in Defence: Naval Edition
Author: Collective
The Year in Defence: Naval Edition
Faircount LLC
2009 Spring
Format: PDF (e-book)
Pages: 92
Size: 11 Mb
Language: English

The Year in Defense is one of today’s leading military and defense information sources for leaders and managers within the American defense community and industrial base. The publication reviews significant activities in the U.S. Department of Defense and military departments over the recent 12-month period while previewing the year ahead.

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 The Nuremberg Trials The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity
The Nuremberg Trials The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity
Author: Paul Roland
The Nuremberg Trials The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity
Arcturus Publishing Limited
2012
ISBN: 1848588402
Format: EPUB
Size: 14,2 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 384
Anyone wishing to understand the nature of evil can do no better than look within the pages of this book: the Nazis were a vile collection of criminals, thugs, misfits, sadists and petty bureaucrats bound together by a philosophy of hate and a love of plunder. As such, the Nuremberg Trials were the most important criminal proceedings ever held. They established the principle that individuals will always be held responsible for their actions under international law, and brought closure to World War II, allowing the reconstruction of Europe to begin.
A vital read for anyone interested in the 20th century! Includes an eight-page plate photographic section.

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 Land-based Fighters
Land-based Fighters
Author: David Baker
Land-based Fighters (The Military Aircraft Library)
Rourke Enterprises Inc.
1987
Format: PDF
Pages: 54
Language: English
Size: 12.5 MB
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The Military Aircraft Library From the fastest and highest flying planes to the largest and strongest of nations defenders, these books will thrill the readers with the latest military photographs. The informative text, glossary, index and acronymn lists of each title, provides the reader with easy access to factual information for reference reports. The author is an international authority in military techniques.

More from the series:
Land Fighters
Spy Planes
Helicopters
Navy Fighters
Bombers
Research planes

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 Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
Author: Robert K. Massie
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
Head of Zeus Ltd
1992
ISBN: 0394528336
Format: EPUB
Size: 5,1 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 1007
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert K. Massie has written a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century's first great arms race. Massie brings to vivid life, such historical figures as the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz, the young, ambitious, Winston Churchill, the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von Bulow, and many others. Their story, and the story of the era, filled with misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and events leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tratedy in his powerful narrative. Intimately human and dramatic, DREADNOUGHT is history at its most riveting.

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 Jeep
Jeep
Author: Peter Guttmacher
Jeep (Those Daring Machines)
Crestwood House
1994
Format: PDF
Pages: 48
Language: English
Size: 26.7 MB

This book traces the history of the rugged American all-purpose vehicle, the Jeep, from its creation as a war machine to its popularity on roads today.

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 Medic: Saving Lives - From Dunkirk to Afghanistan
Medic: Saving Lives - From Dunkirk to Afghanistan
Author: John & Rennell, Tony Nichol
Medic Saving Lives - From Dunkirk to Afghanistan
Penguin
2009
ISBN: 0670916048
Format: EPUB
Size: 22,4 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 696
Their job is to put themselves in the heart of danger - to run into battle to rescue the wounded and to risk their own lives to try and save the dying. Doctors, nurses, medics and stretcher bearers go where the bullets are thickest, through bomb alleys and mine fields, ducking mortars and rockets, wherever someone is hit and the shout goes up - 'Medic! We need a medic over here!' War at its rawest is their domain, an ugly place of shattered bodies, severed limbs, broken heads and death.
This is the story of those brave men - and, increasingly in this day and age, women - who go to war armed with bandages not bombs, scalpels not swords, and put saving life above taking life. Many have died in the process, the ultimate sacrifice for others. But wherever the cry of 'Medic!' is heard, it will be answered. From the beaches of Dunkirk to the desert towns of Afghanistan, there can be no nobler cause.

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 Concord 1034 - Slava, Udaloy and Sovremenniy
Concord  1034 - Slava, Udaloy and Sovremenniy
Author: Steven J. Zaloga
Concord № 1034 - Slava, Udaloy and Sovremenniy
Concord Publications
ISBN: 9623610343
1992
Format: PDF
Size: 22,3 МБ
Language: English

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 F9F Panther Units of the Korean War
F9F Panther Units of the Korean War
Author: Warren Thompson
F9F Panther Units of the Korean War
Osprey Publishing
Osprey Combat Aircraft 103
ISBN: 1782003509
2014
Format: PDF (e-book)
Pages: 96
Size: 4 Mb
Language: English

In 1948 the USAF, Marine Corps and US Navy were concentrating on converting over to an all-jet force. When the Korean War started in June 1950, the USAF had built up a sizable jet force in the Far East, while the US Navy was in the early stages of getting F9F Panthers operational as replacements for its piston-engined F8F Bearcats. At about this time, the Marine Corps had also begun using the Panthers in limited numbers. Operating from aircraft carriers off the Korean coast, F9Fs helped stop the North Korean invasion within two weeks of the communists crossing the 38th Parallel.

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 Battleground Europe.Market Garden - Hell's Highway
Battleground Europe.Market Garden - Hell's Highway
Author: Tim Saunders
Battleground Europe.Market Garden - Hell's Highway
Pen & Sword
2001
Format: PDF
Pages: 204
Language: English
Size: 32.5 MB

Hell's Highway is the dramatic name given to the vital stretch of road that the British 3rd Guards Armoured Division had to advance down rapidly on their route to relieve the American Paras (82d Airborne) at Nijmegen and the British I st Airborne Division at Arnhem. Adopting the clear and successful style of Battleground works this book relies on personal accounts to embellish this dramatic story.

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 Swashbucklers and Black Sheep
Swashbucklers and Black Sheep
Author: Bruce Gamble
Swashbucklers and Black Sheep: A Pictorial History of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II
Zenith Press
2011
Format: EPUB
Pages: 216
Size: 10 Mb

Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 214 is the world’s most famous fighter squadron. Its second wartime squadron commander was the legendary Greg “Pappy” Boyington. Boyington and the squadron were the loose inspiration for the late-seventies NBC television series Baa Baa Black Sheep, which was later syndicated under the name Black Sheep Squadron.

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 Logistics in the Falklands War
Logistics in the Falklands War
Author: Kenneth L Privratsky
Logistics in the Falklands War
Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473823129
2015
Format: EPUB
Size: 2,0 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 304
While many books have been written on the Falklands War, this is the first to focus on the vital aspect of logistics. The challenges were huge; the lack of preparation time; the urgency; the huge distances involved; the need to requisition ships from trade to name but four.
After a brief discussion of events leading to Argentina’s invasion the book describes in detail the rush to reorganize and deploy forces, dispatch a large task force, the innovative solutions needed to sustain the Task Force, the vital staging base at Ascension Island, the in-theater resupply, the setbacks and finally the restoring of order after victory.
Had the logistics plan failed, victory would have been impossible and humiliation inevitable, with no food for the troops, no ammunition for the guns, no medical support for casualties etc.
The lessons learnt have never been more important with increasing numbers of out-of-area operations required in remote trouble spots at short notice. The Falklands experience is crucial for the education of new generations of military planners and fascinating for military buffs and this book fills an important gap.

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 The diary of Georgi Dimitrov (1933-1949)
The diary of Georgi Dimitrov (1933-1949)
The diary of Georgi Dimitrov (1933-1949);
Author: Georgi Dimitrov, Ivo Banac
Yale University Press
2003
Format: pdf
Size: 4 mb
Pages: 547
Language: English

Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949) was a high-ranking Bulgarian and Soviet official, one of the most prominent leaders of the international communist movement and a trusted member of Stalin's inner circle. Accused by the Nazis of setting the Reichstag fire in 1933, he successfully defended himself at the Leipzig Trial and thereby became an international symbol of resistance to Nazism. Stalin appointed him head of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1935, and he held this position until the Comintern's dissolution in 1943. After the end of World War II, Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria and became its first communist premier. During the years between 1933 and his death in 1949, Dimitrov kept a diary that described his tumultuous career and revealed much about the inner working of the international communist organizations, the opinions and actions of the Soviet leadership, and the Soviet Union's role in shaping the postwar Eastern Europe. This document, edited and introduced by historian Ivo Banac, is available in English in this volume. It is a useful source for information about international Communism, Stalin and Soviet policy, and the origins of the Cold War.

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 German and Japanese Business in the Boom Years
German and Japanese Business in the Boom Years
Author:Matthias Kipping
German and Japanese Business in the Boom Years
2004
Routledge
Format:pdf
Size:1.5 MB
Pages:304
Language:English
This edited volume examines the American influence on West German and Japanese industry from the 1950s to the 1970s, providing a valuable contribution to the debate on 'Americanization' from a historical and comparative perspective. Individual contributions provide an in-depth analysis of the adoption and modification of management and technological issues from the US in West Germany and Japan at the micro-economic level.

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