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 Airplanes and Helicopters of the U.S. Navy 
 Author: Frank J. Delear Airplanes and Helicopters of the U.S. Navy Dodd, Mead & Company 1982 Format: PDF Pages: 152 Language: English Size: 65 MB Traces the history of U.S. Naval aviation from its beginnings to current aircraft, including supersonic jets, and examines new technology and future aircraft.
Twentieth-Century War and Conflict: A Concise Encyclopedia
 Twentieth-Century War and Conflict: A Concise Encyclopedia Author: Gordon Martel Wiley-Blackwell Graduation Year: 2014 Language: English Format: pdf Quality: excellent Pages: 436 Size: 5,2 Mb
Modern Military Powers: Israel
 Author: Stan Morse Modern Military Powers: Israel Military Press 1984 Format: PDF Pages: 168 Language: English Size: 35.8 MB The rise of the Israel Defence Forces is one of the most remarkable phenomena of the modern military scene. Born out of the horrors of the holocaust of World War II, they have quickly grown into the most successful military force the world has ever seen. Five times they have been to war, and five times they have triumphed. They have faced and vanquished the entire hostile Arab world. They are the masters of modern warfare, and even the mighty USA gratefully accepts master classes from their war-proven airmen and soldiers. This volume illustrates and describes nearly all the items in Israel's order of battle.
Modeling Human and Organizational Behavior: Application to Military Simulations
 Author: Richard W. Pew, Anne S. Mavor Modeling Human and Organizational Behavior: Application to Military Simulations National Academies Press ISBN: 0309060966 1998 Format: PDF Size: 7,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 432 Simulations are widely used in the military for training personnel, analyzing proposed equipment, and rehearsing missions, and these simulations need realistic models of human behavior. This book draws together a wide variety of theoretical and applied research in human behavior modeling that can be considered for use in those simulations. It covers behavior at the individual, unit, and command level.
The Seafarers - Fighting Sail
 Author: A. B. C Whipple The Seafarers - Fighting Sail Time-Life Books 1978 Format: PDF Pages: 190 Language: English Size: 30 MB For anyone interested in naval history from the early 1700's until the early 1800's, including Trafalgar, this is the book to read !!! Mostly on the Royal Navy and the French Navy, it covers developments in tactics and shipbuilding, ordnance, and training, as well as the key naval personalities and battles of the era, especially Horatio Nelson. A must have for any naval historian. Content: The Mighty Shjp of the line Essay: Battle at Sea: from "all hands" to broadside A New day for His Majesty's admirals A bloody nose for Napoleon at the Nile Essay: The bittersweet life of a midshipman Battle, Blockade and chase Essay: Friends and foes: the Captains at Trafalgar Trafalgar: the final kill Essay: The Splendid spectacle
Mars Learning The Marine Corp's Development of Small Wars Doctrine, 1915-1940
 Author: Keith B. Bickel Mars Learning The Marine Corp's Development of Small Wars Doctrine, 1915-1940 Westview Press ISBN: 0813397758 2000 Format: PDF Size: 28,4 МБ Language:English Pages: 289 Keith B. Bickel challenges a host of military and strategic theories that treat particular bureaucratic structures, large organizations, and elites as the progenitors of doctrine. This timely study of how the military draws lessons from interventions focuses on the overlooked role that mid-level combat officers play in creating military doctrine. Mars Learning closely evaluates Marine civil and military pacification operations in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua, and illuminates the debates surrounding the development of Marine Corps’ small wars doctrine between 1915 and 1940. The result is compelling evidence of how field experience obtained before 1940 played a role in shaping the Marine Corps’ Small Wars Manual and elements of doctrine that exist today. How the Marines organized lessons at that time provides important insights into how doctrine is likely to be generated today in response to post-Cold War interventions around the globe.
Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
 Author: Daniel Bolger Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0544370481 2014 Format: EPUB Size: 17,5 МБ Language: English Pages: 544 I have read about 6 war memoirs in the last two years, The Fobbit, sergent rex, redemption, and they all have given me a different view of the long conflict. This was wonderful, written from the command view, of all the things that went wrong and why. It is long, stunningly detailed and makes for obsessive reading. The prologue starts with the bombing of the Cole, explaining in depth why this was so important. This will be a definitive book on the subject of the long war. I cannot endorse it enough.
A Young Persons Introduction to HMS Victory
 A Young Persons Introduction to HMS Victory Author: William Pearce Alan Roe Waterlow Ltd. for Portsmouth Royal Navy Museum Trading Co. Ltd 1982 Pages: 20 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 14 MB HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. She was also Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she served as a harbour ship. In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She is the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission.
Cockleshell Raid
 Author: Paul Oldfield Cockleshell Raid Pen and Sword Military Battleground Europe ISBN: 1781592551 2012 Format: EPUB Pages: 232 Size: 9 Mb Language: English Operation 'Frankton' is a story of how a handful of determined and resourceful men, using flimsy canoes, achieved what thousands could not by conventional means. The volunteers had enlisted for 'Hostilities Only' and, except for their leader, none had been in a canoe before. However, with a few months training they carried out what one German officer described as, "the outstanding commando raid of the war". They became known as the 'Cockleshell Heroes', having been immortalized in a film and a book of that name in the 1950s.
Smart Weapons: Top Secret History of Remote Controlled Airborne Weapons
 Author: Hugh McDaid & David Oliver Smart Weapons: Top Secret History of Remote Controlled Airborne Weapons Barnes & Noble 1997 Pages: 208 Language: English Size: 57.3 MB Top secret history of remote controlled airborne weapon system. Drone aircraft history. Precision guided munitions on unmanned aircraft. Examines the new robot warriors with smart weapons, including the unmanned HiMAT miniature jet fighter, the Dark Star and Global Hawk projects, the Predator currently patrolling Bosnia, and her amazing technological advances. Many color and black-and-white photos.
Twentieth-Century World History
 Author: William J. Duiker Twentieth-Century World History, 3rd Edition Wadsorth Publishing ISBN: 0534628117 2004 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 16.5 MB; 368 pages A comprehensive and balanced history of the world in the twentieth century, William Duiker's text not only chronicles the key events in this revolutionary century, but also examines the underlying issues that have shaped the times. TWENTIETH-CENTURY WORLD HISTORY takes a global approach to the subject while doing justice to the distinctive character of individual civilizations and regions. Duiker integrates political, economic, social, and cultural history, creating a chronologically ordered synthesis that gives students the true flavor of the most decisive moments in recent world history. In addition, Duiker's own photographs and selection of primary source documents, which illustrate much of the book, are especially effective in illustrating key points in the narrative.
The U.S. Marine Corps
 Author: J. F. Warner The U.S. Marine Corps Lerner Publications Company 1991 Format: PDF Pages: 96 Language: English Size: 11.3 MB Reviews the history, modern day life, and equipment of the Marine Corps, and details the enlistment and promotion procedures.
Famous Firsts in Aviation
 Author: Jesse Davidson Famous Firsts in Aviation G.P.Putnam's Sons 1974 Format: PDF Pages: 80 Language: English Size: 33.1 MB Man's desire to fly has resulted in today's exploration of the outer atmosphere and space. From the first balloon, which rose majestically for the span of only five minutes, to the intricate supersonic aircraft, the history of aviation is filled with many astonishing "firsts." In his fascinating and well-illustrated account, Jesse Davidson tells of man's lifelong inventiveness , his failures, and his great successes.
Great British Flying-boats
 Great British Flying-boats Author: Martyn Chorlton Kelsey Publishing Aeroplane Collectors' Archive ISBN: 978 1907426292 2012 Language: English Pages: 100 Format: PDF Size: 21,8 MB The Aeroplane Collectors’ Archive series is devoted to British monoplane fl ying-boats – we intend to cover biplane ‘boats in a future issue, while the Saro SR.A/1 will also feature in another of this series. One type included here is not a fl ying-boat – the seaplane upper component of the Short-Mayo Composite, but the unit had to be considered as a whole. As in previous Collectors’ Archives, only basic details for each type are given, and we concentrate on providing large and interesting illustrations and cutaway drawings from the Aeroplane and Flight archives, supplementing these where necessary by quality prints from our wider archive and from other sources. We are grateful to the Solent Sky Museum Southampton for their assistance with this volume.
The Foundations of Modern Terrorism: State, Society and the Dynamics of Political Violence
 : The Foundations of Modern Terrorism: State, Society and the Dynamics of Political Violence Author : Martin A. Miller Cambridge University Press : 2013 ISBN: 978110702530 Pages: 306 Format : PDF Size : 4,5 MB Language : English Why is it that terrorism has become such a central factor in our lives despite all the efforts to eradicate it? Ranging from early modern Europe to the contemporary Middle East, Martin Miller reveals the foundations of modern terrorism. He argues that the French Revolution was a watershed moment as it was then that ordinary citizens first claimed the right to govern. The traditional notion of state legitimacy was forever altered and terrorism became part of a violent contest over control of state power between officials in government and insurgents in society. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries terrorism evolved into a way of seeing the world and a way of life for both insurgents and state security forces with the two sides drawn ever closer in their behaviour and tactics. This is a groundbreaking history of terrorism which, for the first time, integrates the violence of governments and insurgencies.
The Airline Builders
 Author: Oliver Allen The Airline Builders (The Epic of Flight) Time-Life Books 1981 Format: PDF Pages: 186 Language: English Size: 26.5 MB Another well researched and written book from Time-Life, this book details the founding and early years of America's major airlines. It contains a wealth of information on the personalities, struggles , competition and even the airplanes that constituted these new giants of transportation. A suprising fact was that the airline routes were really established by the U.S. Postmaster General, when airmail accounted for more revenue to the airlines than passenger fares. A must have for aviation enthusiasts.
An Island Hell: A Soviet Prison in the Far North
 Author: Malsagoff S.A. An Island Hell: A Soviet Prison in the Far North London: A.M. Philpot ltd. 1926 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 55,6 mb
Occult Roots of Nazism
 Occult Roots of Nazism Author: Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke Tauris Parke Paperbacks 2005 Pages: 304 Format: PDF Size: 14.5 Mb Language: English Product Description: Over half a century after the defeat of the Third Reich the complexities of Nazi ideology are still being unravelled. This text is a serious attempt to identify these ideological origins. It demonstrates the way in which Nazism was influenced by powerful occult and millenarian sects that thrived in Germany and Austria at the turn of the century. Their ideas and symbols filtered through to nationalist-racist groups associated with the infant Nazi party and their fantasies were played out with terrifying consequences in the Third Reich: Auschwitz, Sobibor and Treblinka are the hellish museums of the Nazi apocalypse. This bizarre and fascinating story contains lessons we cannot afford to ignore.
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet (Classic Warplanes)
 Author: Mike Spick McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet (Classic Warplanes) Smithmark Publishers 1991 Format: PDF Pages: 58 Language: English Size: 50.1 MB thanks to adeda This book covers the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 A, C and D variants. The Super Hornet E/F came after this book was published in 1991. The cutaway drawing and the specifications are the C version. The narrative flows easily with the history, color photos, explanations of design innovations such as the HUD (Heads Up Display) and operational history. The Hornet saw action in Libya (1986) and the Iraq Gulf War (1991). This short book, only 45 pages with index, should satisfy most readers. Chapters: (1) History and development (2) Hornet variants (3) Avionics and armament (4) Mission (5) In service and at war
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