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 Inside Spetsnaz: Soviet Special Operations 
 Author: William H. Burgess Inside Spetsnaz: Soviet Special Operations Presidio Press 1989 Format: PDF Pages: 344 Language: English Size: 48.3 MB This is one of the few books on Soviet Special Operations Forces (SOF) collectively known as Spetsnaz. This book covers Soviet Army and Navy SOF in excellent detail. This is an older book printed in 1990 being the last book to be printed on the Spetsnaz prior to the end of the Cold War in 1991. The best about this book is that each chapter is written by different authors giving various analyses on the capabilities and operations, without a major western bias.
Shermans March - Atlanta to the Sea (The Civil War Series)
 Author: David Nevin Shermans March - Atlanta to the Sea (The Civil War Series) Time Life Books 1986 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 39.5 MB After General William Tecumseh Sherman took Atlanta in September 1864, General John B. Hood's Army of Tennessee regrouped outside the city and countered the grouped outside the city and countered the Federals by attacking northwest, toward Chattanooga. Rebuffed at Allatoona, Hood withdrew into Alabama as Sherman initiated his grand strategy: Leaving General George H. Thomas in Tennessee to deal with Hood, Sherman led his forces from Atlanta on a march southeastward to the sea.
The Military Balance 2013
 Author: The Military Balance 2013 The International Institute For Strategic Studies 2013 Format: PDF Size: 126.84 MB Language: English
Military Helicopters
 Author: James Ladd Military Helicopters (Modern Military Techniques) Lerner Publishing Company 1987 Format: PDF Pages: 52 Language: English Size: 25 MB Describes how helicopters perform complicated military maneuvers and includes detailed illustrations explaining their weapons and control systems.
Titanic (All About History)
 Author: Collective Titanic (All About History) Imagine Publishing 2014 ISBN: 1910439320 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages 180 Size: 79 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.
The Year in Defence: Aerospace Edition
 Author: Collective The Year in Defence: Aerospace Edition Faircount LLC 2009 Summer Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 76 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.
Privatizing War: Private Military and Security Companies under Public International Law
 : Privatizing War: Private Military and Security Companies under Public International Law Author : Lindsey Cameron, Vincent Chetail Cambridge University Press : 2013 ISBN: 1107032407 Pages: 754 Format : PDF Size : 6 MB Language : English A growing number of states use private military and security companies (PMSCs) for a variety of tasks, which were traditionally fulfilled by soldiers. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the law that applies to PMSCs active in situations of armed conflict, focusing on international humanitarian law. It examines the limits in international law on how states may use private actors, taking the debate beyond the question of whether PMSCs are mercenaries. The authors delve into issues such as how PMSCs are bound by humanitarian law, whether their staff are civilians or combatants, and how the use of force in self-defence relates to direct participation in hostilities, a key issue for an industry that operates by exploiting the right to use force in self-defence. Throughout, the authors identify how existing legal obligations, including under state and individual criminal responsibility should play a role in the regulation of the industry.
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
 Author:Antony C. Sutton Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler G S G & Associates Pub 1976 Format:DJVU Size:1.3 MB Language:English ISBN: 0945001533 This is the third and final volume of a trilogy describing the role of the American corporate socialists, otherwise known as the Wall Street financial elite or the Eastern Liberal Establishment, in three significant twentieth-century historical events: the 1917 Lenin-Trotsky Revolution in Russia, the 1933 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States, and the 1933 seizure of power by Adolf Hitler in Germany. Each of these events introduced some variant of socialism into a major country — i.e., Bolshevik socialism in Russia, New Deal socialism in the United States, and National socialism in Germany. Contemporary academic histories, with perhaps the sole exception of Carroll Quigley's Tragedy And Hope, ignore this evidence. On the other hand, it is understandable that universities and research organizations, dependent on financial aid from foundations that are controlled by this same New York financial elite, would hardly want to support and to publish research on these aspects of international politics. The bravest of trustees is unlikely to bite the hand that feeds his organization. It is also eminently clear from the evidence in this trilogy that "public-spirited businessmen" do not journey to Washington as lobbyists and administrators in order to serve the United States. They are in Washington to serve their own profit-maximizing interests. Their purpose is not to further a competitive, free-market economy, but to manipulate a politicized regime, call it what you will, to their own advantage. It is business manipulation of Hitler's accession to power in March 1933 that is the topic of Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler.
Convertiplanes in Action: The VTOL Success Story
 Author: Erik Bergaust Convertiplanes in Action: The VTOL Success Story G. P. Putnam's Sons 1969 Format: PDF Pages: 80 Language: English Size: 29.2 MB Until the day when the great air terminals no longer need long runways, the airplane is—in words attributed to Thomas Edison—"only half invented." Ever since the Wright brothers were airborne at Kitty Hawk, aviation pioneers and engineers have recognized the need for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft and short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft. Helicopters are part, but only part, of the solution, as technicians continue to design and test larger and more complex convertiplanes.
The Mystery of Olga Chekhova
 Author: Beevor, Anthony The Mystery of Olga Chekhova Penguin Books 2005 Format: PDF Size: 14 mb Language: English Pages: 315
Historia Grafica Del Siglo XX. Volumen 1-8
 Author: Ortiz M. (dir.) Historia Grafica Del Siglo XX. Volumen 1-8 Labor 2008 Pages: 2500 Language: Spanish Format: pdf Size: 557 Mb
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.
Churchill: A Biography
 Author: Roy Jenkins Churchill: A Biography Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001 Format: PDF Pages: 1072 Language: English Size: 162.7 MB A brilliant new life of Britain's greatest modern prime minister. Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, he might be remembered only as a minor player in the drama of British government had it not been for World War II. In this magesterial book, Roy Jenkin's unparalleled command of the political history of Britain and his own high-level experience combine in a narrative account of Churchill's astounding career that is unmatched in its shrewd insights, its unforgettable anecdotes, the clarity of its overarching themes, and the author's nuanced appreciation of his extraordinary subject.
Twenty Million Yankees - The Northern Home Front
 Author: Donald Dean Jackson Twenty Million Yankees - The Northern Home Front (The Civil War Series) Time-Life Books 1985 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 32.2 MB In a sense, "Twenty Million Yankees: The Northern Home Front" is one of the secondary books in the Time-Life series on The Civil War. After all, this book by Donald Dale Jackson and the Editors of Time-Life Books does not talk about battles or generals, politicians or issues. What it does do is look at what things were like for the common folks back home (a similar volume, "Confederate Ordeal" looks at the Southern side of the equation).
The Jewish Century
 Author: Yuri Slezkine The Jewish Century Princeton University Press 2004 Format: epub/pdf Size: 3.9 Mb Language: English This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: The Modern Age is the Jewish Age--and we are all, to varying degrees, Jews. The assertion is, of course, metaphorical. But it underscores Yuri Slezkine's provocative thesis. Not only have Jews adapted better than many other groups to living in the modern world, they have become the premiere symbol and standard of modern life everywhere. Slezkine argues that the Jews were, in effect, among the world's first free agents. They traditionally belonged to a social and anthropological category known as "service nomads," an outsider group specializing in the delivery of goods and services. Their role, Slezkine argues, was part of a broader division of human labor between what he calls Mercurians-entrepreneurial minorities--and Apollonians--food-producing majorities. Since the dawning of the Modern Age, Mercurians have taken center stage. In fact, Slezkine argues, modernity is all about Apollonians becoming Mercurians--urban, mobile, literate, articulate, intellectually intricate, physically fastidious, and occupationally flexible. Since no group has been more adept at Mercurianism than the Jews, he contends, these exemplary ancients are now model moderns. The book concentrates on the drama of the Russian Jews, including émigrés and their offspring in America, Palestine, and the Soviet Union. But Slezkine has as much to say about the many faces of modernity--nationalism, socialism, capitalism, and liberalism--as he does about Jewry. Marxism and Freudianism, for example, sprang largely from the Jewish predicament, Slezkine notes, and both Soviet Bolshevism and American liberalism were affected in fundamental ways by the Jewish exodus from the Pale of Settlement. Rich in its insight, sweeping in its chronology, and fearless in its analysis, this sure-to-be-controversial work is an important contribution not only to Jewish and Russian history but to the history of Europe and America as well.
The Floating Drydock - USS Juneau CL
 Author: Collective The Floating Drydock - USS Juneau CL(AA) 52 The Floating Drydock 1993 Format: PDF Pages: 45 Language: English Size: 22.8 MB The JUNEAU was the second, of what would eventually total eleven ships, of the ATLANTA class anti-aircraft light cruisers (CLAA). The ATLANTA class grew out of design proposals from the mid-1930's to provide a light cruiser that could perform fleet screening functions. The US Navy had not designed any small cruisers since the 1917 OMAHA class scout cruisers and had up to the mid-1930's concentrated on designing and building large cruisers. Consequently, the design and construction of the ATLANTA class was driven by the advanced age and unsuitability of the OMAHA class cruisers to meet fleet screening functions.
Hot Wings of Desert Storm
 Author: George Hall Hot Wings of Desert Storm Kidsbooks Inc. 1991 Format: PDF Pages: 36 Language: English Size: 36.5 MB Information and pictures of fighter planes from around the world such as the F-14 Tomcat and the F/A-18 Hornet that were used in the Persian Gulf War.
La Legion Espanola: 75 Anos de Historia (1920-1995): Tomo III (1971-1995)
 Author: Antonio Martínez de la Casa La Legion Espanola: 75 Anos de Historia (1920-1995): Tomo III (1971-1995) Viator Brigada de Infanteria Rey Alfonso XIII de la Legion 2001 Format: PDF Pages: 495 Size: 42 Mb Language: Spanish La Legion Espanola: 75 Anos de Historia (1920-1995): Tomo III (1971-1995)
Rocket Fighter
 Author: Mano Ziegler Rocket Fighter Bantam Books 1984 Format: PDF Pages: 212 Language: English Size: 27.5 MB Written purely as a personal narrative by one of the pilots at the core of the introduction to service, it is largely free of technical detail and long on detailed descriptions of the daily flying activities as part of an experimental Luftwaffe unit. If that sounds boring, don't be put off, for the majority of the book you are standing in the authors shoes as he makes hugely risky flights or sees his fellow pilots crashing to their deaths in this massively dangerous and temperamental act.
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