Military forces and sectors

Drawing on extensive State Department files, declassified Navy policy papers, interviews with both former top officials and individuals who were involved in incidents, David F.

Strategic bombing is likely the most studied element in Aviation History.

Always at War is the story of Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the early decades of the Cold War.

Inspired from assorted first-hand accounts, this fictional story of World War I is an anthropomorphic retelling of that global conflict and the soldiers who experienced the horrors of the front lines and high seas.

This book is a collective biography of the 318 men who joined the German Navy in 1934 to become officers.

First published in 1986 and lauded by historians and World War II buffs eager for the Japanese viewpoint, this collection of essays makes significant contributions to the field of World War II literature.

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize in History.

Given the dearth of scholarship on the Phoney War, this book examines the early months of World War II when Winston Churchill's ability to lead Britain in the fight against the Nazis was being tested.

In Stanley Johnston's Blunder: The Reporter Who Spilled the Secret Behind the U.

At the beginning of World War II, professor Lauren Post, San Diego State College, asked his students entering military service to write to him.

India's armed forces play a key role in protecting the country and occupy a special place in the Indian people's hearts, yet standard accounts of contemporary Indian history rarely have a military dimension.

Military ways can be enigmatic, resulting in an alien world where acronyms often replace words and where "e;1330"e; is a time of day.

Few American presidents have exercised their constitutional authority as commander in chief with more determination than Franklin D.

21st Century Corbett is a collection of essays demonstrating the critical role Sir Julian Corbett played in the development of maritime strategy and sea power theory in the early twentieth century.

Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Sergei Georgiyevich Gorshkov led the Soviet Navy for almost three decades during the height of the Cold War.

Neglected Skies uses a reconsideration of the clash between the British Eastern Fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet in the Indian Ocean in April 1942 to draw a larger conclusion about declining British military power in the era.

Ten years after the close of World War II, the U.

The men who ventured into the air in the Navy's first frail aircraft were not only daring-they had vision, persistence, and a nearly unlimited determination to convince the skeptics that their frail kite-like structures could someday possess military value.

A Tale of Two Navies is an analysis of the unique relationship between the United States Navy and the Royal Navy from 1960 to present.

The Civil War is often considered a "e;soldiers' war,"e; but Life in Jefferson Davis' Navy acknowledges the legacy of service of the officers and sailors of the Confederate States Navy.

Two years before the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped bring a quick end to hostilities in the summer of 1945, U.

This biography of Admiral Thomas C.

This book examines China's national security strategy by looking at the three major elements-foreign policy, energy security, and naval power-all interactive and major influences on China's future and its relations with the United States.

Naval service is an apprenticed profession.

Prior to this book's original publication in 1959 little had been done to dispel confusion regarding what really happened to the French Navy during World War II.

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Less than five years after naval aviation led the forces that defeated Imperial Japan that very organization was in serious trouble.

This volume focuses on naval leadership and ethics with respect to the individual leader and how his or her values and actions affect military cohesion, mission success, and the profession of arms.

Roots of Tradition: Amphibious Warfare in Early America will fill the gap in the historiography of naval and military warfare.

China's shipbuilding industry has grown more rapidly than any other in modern history.

Awareness of the leadership traits exhibited by Admiral Farragut in his famous order: "e;Damn the torpedoes!

Clash of Fleets is an operational history that records every naval engagement fought between major surface warships during World War I.

Victory Without Peace is about the US Navy in European and Near Eastern waters in the post World War I era.

The 390th Bomb Group Anthologyincludes 83 stories written by 45 members of the 390th Bomb Group relating their personal adventures during the World War II years.

Two years before the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped bring a quick end to hostilities in the summer of 1945, U.

Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World War II.

SynopsisFive decades after the Nigerian Civil War, an energized, well-funded and strategic neo-terror organization comprising the kin of the slain Eastern officers has arisen from the ashes of the bloody past to push a renewed, ambitious agenda.

As a young Air Force officer, Major General Paul Landers flew small Cessna O-1 aircrafts, called Bird Dogs, over the trees and rice paddies of the Mekong Delta as a forward air controller (FAC).

"e;My Unbelievable Journey"e; is a powerful autobiography from a flight aircrewman's perspective.

Based on extensive archival research, Sterling Michael Pavelec recounts the adventures of the handful of aviators and their aircraft during the Gallipoli Campaign.

With heightened tensions mounting in the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower's request for more accurate intelligence information on the Soviet Union was the spark that ignited the U-2 project.

Explore the turbulent and transformative period of Jewish history during the Roman Empire with William Douglas Morrison's comprehensive and insightful work, "e;The Jews Under Roman Rule: Rome's Conquest, Occupation and Wars in Israel and Judea.

Au cœur de Nancy, à deux pas de la place Stanislas, le lycée Jeanne d’Arc fait partie du quotidien des Nancéens depuis plus de 120 ans.

An inside look at the Confederacy's military science and technologyLoaded with previously unavailable information about the Confederate Navy's effort to supply its fledgling forces, the wartime diaries and letters of John M.

In January 1940, navy nurse Dorothy Still eagerly anticipated her new assignment at a military hospital in the Philippines.