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 Armored Combat in Vietnam 
 Author: Donn A. Starry Armored Combat in Vietnam Arno Press 1980 Format: PDF Pages: 278 Language: English Size: 35 MB This book is an account of the operations of armored units of the United States Army in the Republic of Vietnam. The term armored units as used here is generic and includes tank and mechanized infantry batallions and companies, armored cavalry squadrons and troops, and air cavalry squadrons and troops — all forces whose primary modus operandi was to fight mounted.
Electronic Warfare Pocket Guide
 Author: David L. Adamy Electronic Warfare Pocket Guide SciTech Publishing ISBN: 1891121618 2011 Format: PDF Size: 5,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 38
Torpedo: The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Weapon
 Author: Roger Branfill-Cook Torpedo: The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Weapon Naval Institute Press ISBN: 1591141931 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 256 Size: 11 Mb Language: English The torpedo was the greatest single game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time it allowed any small, cheap torpedo-firing vessel - and by extension a small, minor navy - to threaten the largest and most powerful warships afloat. The traditional concept of seapower, based on huge fleets of expensive capital ships, required radical rethinking.
Royal Weddings Through Time
 Author: Janette McCutcheon Royal Weddings Through Time Amberley Publishing 2011 Format: PDF Pages: 100 Language: English Size: 26.7 MB Many rare images are used, telling the story of these important royal occasions from the twelfth century to the present day. Royal Weddings are always a time for public celebration; the build-up, the pomp and circumstance of the day, the dress, the sense of occasion. Author Janette McCutcheon takes us through the history of Royal Weddings, the highlights, the dresses, using period illustrations of many major royal weddings from Edward I to Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. From the 800lb cake for Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon s wedding to the more private wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at a French chateau and the pomp and circumstance of the wedding of Charles and Di, we are taken on a journey through the weddings that changed history.
ConDiesel and the Gama Goat M561
 Author: Collective ConDiesel and the Gama Goat M561 Condec Corporation 2003 Format: PDF Pages: 15 Language: English Size: 14 MB Consolidated Diesel Electric Company was the successful competitor for the production program on the U. S. Army's M561, 6x6 1V4 Ton Cargo Truck (Gama Goat). The addition of this new and advanced mobility truck to the stable of ConDiesel's production vehicles is considered a milestone in the Company's history.
Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin
 Author: Steven E. Harris Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin Woodrow Wilson Center Press 2013 Format: PDF Size: 23 Mb Language: English This fascinating and deeply researched book examines how, beginning under Khrushchev in 1953, a generation of Soviet citizens moved from the overcrowded communal dwellings of the Stalin era to modern single-family apartments, later dubbed khrushchevka. Arguing that moving to a separate apartment allowed ordinary urban dwellers to experience Khrushchev’s thaw, Steven E. Harris fundamentally shifts interpretation of the thaw, conventionally understood as an elite phenomenon. Harris focuses on the many participants eager to benefit from and influence the new way of life embodied by the khrushchevka, its furniture, and its associated consumer goods. He examines activities of national and local politicians, planners, enterprise managers, workers, furniture designers and architects, elite organizations (centrally involved in creating cooperative housing), and ordinary urban dwellers. Communism on Tomorrow Street also demonstrates the relationship of Soviet mass housing and urban planning to international efforts at resolving the "housing question" that had been studied since the nineteenth century and led to housing developments in Western Europe, the United States, and Latin America as well as the USSR.
United States Marine Corps
 United States Marine Corps Author: Collective Faircount LLC 2007 Edition Pages: 148 Language: English Format: PDF (e-book) Size: 33 МВ The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. The U.S. Marine Corps is one of the four branches in the U.S. Department of Defense as well as one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. It operates posts on land and aboard sea-going amphibious warfare ships around the world. The Marine Corps has been a component of the U.S. Department of the Navy since 1834, working closely with naval forces for training, transportation, and logistics. The U.S. Marine Corps has around 194,000 active duty members and just under 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2007. It is the smallest of the United States Armed Forces in the U.S. Department of Defense.
Comrades!: A History of World Communism
 Author: Robert Service Harvard University Press 2010 ISBN: 0674046994 Pages: 592 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 64.04 Mb Almost two decades after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR, leading historian Robert Service examines the history of communism throughout the world. Comrades! moves from Marx and Lenin to Mao and Castro and beyond to trace communism from its beginnings to the present day. Offering vivid portraits of the protagonists and decisive events in communist history, Service looks not only at the high politics of communist regimes but also at the social conditions that led millions to support communism in so many countries. After outlining communism's origins with Marx and Engels and its first success with Lenin and the Russian Revolution in 1917, Service examines the Soviet bloc, long-lasting regimes like Yugoslavia and Cuba, the Chinese revolution, the spread of communism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and the international links among the hundreds of parties. He covers communism's organization and ideology as well as its general appeal. He looks at abortive communist revolutions and at the ineffectual parties in the United States and elsewhere. Service offers a human view of the story as well as a global analysis. His uncomfortable conclusion--and an important message for the twenty-first century--is that although communism in its original form is now dying or dead, the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still dangerously alive. Unsettling and compellingly written, Comrades! is the most comprehensive study of one of the most important movements of the modern world.
US Marines in Battle Al-Khafji: 28 January - 1 February 1991
 Author: Paul W Westermeyer US Marines in Battle Al-Khafji: 28 January - 1 February 1991 Marine Corps History Division 2008 Format: PDF Pages: 40 Language: English Size: 5 MB The Battle of Khafji was the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War. It took place in and around the Saudi Arabian city of Khafji, from 29 January to 1 February 1991 and marked the culmination of the Coalition's air campaign over Kuwait and Iraq, which had begun on 17 January 1991.
The Year in Defence 2010
 Author: Collective The Year in Defence 2010 Faircount LLC 2010 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 148 Size: 20 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.
Empire of Chaos
 Author: Pepe Escobar Empire of Chaos Nimble Books 2014 Format: PDF Size: 2 Mb Language: English From Syria and Iraq to Ukraine, from AfPak to Libya, from Iran to Russia, and from the Persian Gulf to China, foreign correspondent Pepe Escobar, author of The Roving Eye column for Asia Times/Hong Kong, crisscrosses what the Pentagon calls the "arc of instability." As Escobar tells it in the introduction, "the columns selected for this volume follow the period 2009-2014 - the Obama years so far. A continuum with previous volumes published by Nimble Books does apply. Globalistan, from 2007, was an extended reportage/warped travel book across the Bush years, where I argued the world was being plunged into Liquid War - alluding to energy flows but also to the liquid modernity character of post-modern war. Red Zone Blues, also from 2007, was a vignette - an extended reportage centering on the Baghdad surge. And Obama does Globalistan, from 2009, examined how the hyperpower could embark on a "change we can believe in". The outcome, as these columns arguably reflect, is Empire of Chaos - where a plutocracy progressively projects its own internal disintegration upon the whole world." "You will find some key overlapping nations/themes/expressions/acronyms in these columns; Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, China, Russia, Ukraine, Pipelineistan, BRICS, EU, NATO, GCC, the Global South, GWOT (the global war on terror), The New Great Game, Full Spectrum Dominance. You will also find a progressive drift towards not conventional war, but above all economic war - manifestations of Liquid War." Incrementally, I have been arguing that Washington's number one objective now is to prevent a full economic integration of Eurasia that would leave the U.S. as a non-hegemon, or worse still, an outsider. Thus the three-pronged strategy of "pivoting to Asia" (containment of China); Ukraine (containment of Russia); and beefing up NATO (subjugation of Europe, and NATO as Global Robocop)." Book the ultimate trip to the Empire of Chaos, and see how the U.S. - and the West - are tackling the emergence of a multipolar world.
The British Army 1965-80: Combat and Service Dress
 The British Army 1965-80: Combat and Service Dress (Men-at-Arms Series 71) Author: David Smith, Angus McBride Osprey Publishing ISBN: 0850452732 1985 Pages: 50 Format: PDF Size: 18.46МБ Language: English The uniform of the British Army underwent many changes between 1965 and 1980. This book catalogues these changes and outlines in detail the many regimental distinctions which exist throughout this old and prestigious army. Among the formations examined are the Household Division, the Royal Armoured Corps, the Scottish Division, the Queen's Division, the King's Division, the Prince of Wales's Division, the Light Division and the Brigade of Gurkhas. The text is backed by numerous photographs and eight colour plates vividly depicting the nuances of the army's combat and service dress.
TS-11 Iskra Jet Trainer
 TS-11 Iskra Jet Trainer Zaklad Wydawniczo-Poligraficzny 1966 Format: PDF Pages: 24 Language: English Size: 17 MB The PZL TS-11 Iskra (English: Spark) is a Polish jet trainer aircraft, used by the air forces of Poland and India. It is notable as the main training aircraft of the Polish Air Force, the oldest jet still in service in Poland.
The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People
 Author: Alan Brinkley The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 6 edition 2009 Format: pdf Size: 148.3Mb Language: English Known for its clear narrative voice and impeccable scholarship, Alan Brinkley's best-selling survey text invites students to think critically about the many forces that continually create the Unfinished Nation that is the United States. In a concise but wide-ranging narrative, Brinkley shows the diversity and complexity of the nation and our understanding of its history--one that continues to evolve both in the events of the present and in our reexamination of new evidence and perspectives on the past. This sixth edition features a new series of Patterns of Popular Culture essays, as well as expanded coverage of pre-Columbian America, new America in the World essays, and updated coverage of recent events and developments that demonstrates how a new generation continues to shape the American story.
A Guide To Modern U.S. Army Weapons
Author: V.M. DeMola
A Guide To Modern U.S. Army Weapons
V.M. DeMola
2012
Format: EPUB
Size: 5,8 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 218
A Guide To Modern U.S. Army Weapons explores the current inventory of weapons employed by the United States Army. References, video links, and book suggestions are included for those who wish to explore a subject in more detail.
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Strategy & Tactics of War
 Author: Ned Willmott, John Pimlott Strategy & Tactics of War Chartwell Books Inc. 1979 Format: PDF Pages: 250 Language: English Size: 42.5 MB In The Strategy and Tactics of War Ned Willmott and John Pimlott explore the art of war historically, and with particular reference to its development in the twentieth century. The book breaks down into three main areas: land, sea and air, and within each one, the development of strategy and the implementation of tactics is detailed. Such problems as how dependence on the lessons learned (belatedly) from the trench warfare of World War I blinkered Allied response to the German tank blitzkrieg of 1940; the grim lessons only now being really understood from the failure of strategic air bombing of civilian and commercial targets ; the initial success of the German naval blockade of Britain and how the convoy system overcame the U-boat threat - all these, and many more, are discussed in this engrossing book. The Strategy and Tactics of War provides an absorbing glimpse into the living military history of our time.
Russia’s Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009 (Osprey Essential Histories 78)
 Author: Mark Galeotti Russia’s Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009 Osprey Publishing Osprey Essential Histories 78 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 96 Size: 42 Mb Language: English In this fully illustrated book an expert on the conflicts traces the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial Russian advance through to urban battles such as Grozny, and the prolonged guerrilla warfare in the mountainous regions. He assesses how the wars have torn apart the fabric of Chechen society and their impact on Russia itself. Featuring specially drawn full-colour mapping and drawing upon a wide range of sources, this succinct account explains the origins, history and consequences of Russia's wars in Chechnya, shedding new light on the history - and prospects - of the troubled region.
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation (Oxford Illustrated Histories)
 Author: Peter Marshall (Editor) The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation (Oxford Illustrated Histories) Oxford University Press 2015 Format: True PDF Size: 76.5 Mb Language: English The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out in Europe and across the world. The protests against the marketing of indulgences staged by the German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a long-standing pattern of calls for internal reform and renewal in the Christian Church. But they rapidly took a radical and unexpected turn, engulfing first Germany and then Europe as a whole in furious arguments about how God's will was to be discerned, and how humans were to be 'saved'. However, these debates did not remain confined to a narrow sphere of theology. They came to reshape politics and international relations; social, cultural, and artistic developments; relations between the sexes; and the patterns and performances of everyday life. They were also the stimulus for Christianity's transformation into a truly global religion, as agents of the Roman Catholic Church sought to compensate for losses in Europe with new conversions in Asia and the Americas. Covering both Protestant and Catholic reform movements, in Europe and across the wider world, this beautifully illustrated volume tells the story of the Reformation from its immediate, explosive beginnings, through to its profound longer-term consequences and legacy for the modern world. The story is not one of an inevitable triumph of liberty over oppression, enlightenment over ignorance. Rather, it tells how a multitude of rival groups and individuals, with or without the support of political power, strove after visions of 'reform'. And how, in spite of themselves, they laid the foundations for the plural and conflicted world we now inhabit.
Military Elites: Special Fighting Units in the Modern World
 Author: Roger A. Beaumont Military Elites: Special Fighting Units in the Modern World The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1974 Format: PDF Pages: 280 Language: English Size: 23 MB Merrill's Marauders. Darby's Rangers. The French Foreign Legion. The Green Berets. The Commandos. Names that have come to epitomize daring, determination and expertise. Names that stir us with the promise of martial glory. Precisely as they were meant to do. For it is the opinion of the author that many elite military units were formed to serve psychological rather than tactical needs. This book tells the history of more than eighty such organizations, from the Arab Legion of Glubb Pasha to the heliborne air cavalry of Vietnam.
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