From an historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific during the critical days of 1943 when the tide turned against the Japanese.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the lives of almost every American, and began the process of putting 17 million of them in uniform to fight in World War II.
Trust, but Verify uses trust-with its emotional and predictive aspects-to explore international relations in the second half of the Cold War, beginning with the late 1960s.
Hand-picked, pressure-tested, and full of astronaut gung ho, the young pilots of Eye of the Viper are poised for the toughest assignment of their career: the exhaustive six-month training course at Arizona's Luke Air Force Base, at a cost of $2 million each.
Gradually evolving from sailing frigates, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but this book starts with the earliest steam paddle warships, covers the evolution of screw-driven frigates, corvettes and sloops, and then the succeeding iron, composite and steel-hulled classes down to the last armoured cruisers.
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERRead the legendary story of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft, seen through the eyes of former RAF captain Scott Bateman'An engaging and revealing read' JOHN NICHOL---Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow.
"Bauernaufstände in Deutschland und ihre Auswirkungen auf Europa"Entdecken Sie ein faszinierendes Kapitel der europäischen Geschichte, das die Grundlagen unserer modernen Gesellschaft nachhaltig geprägt hat.
Sun Tzu better watch his back' New York Magazine'An Art of War-style book of tough guy maxims to live by' Evening StandardSpanning world civilizations, synthesizing dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts and thousands of years of violent conflict, The Concise 33 Strategies of War is the I-Ching of conflict, distilling Robert Greene's global bestseller into the essential, accessible rules of engagement.
'Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITEOn 5 December 2002, trainee pilot Nathan Gray walked away from an 'unsurvivable' crash at RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire.
'Fighting like a girl says I can be powerful in ways that are natural to me; I have access to power too - it may not look the same as your power, but it's there and I can claim it.
From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls and GI Brides, this is Kathleen's story, one of three true accounts from the book The Girls Who Went to War.
HIER SIND EINIGE WICHTIGE FAKTEN ÜBER DIE NATO:SOLL RUSSLAND TROTZ ALLEDEM AUCH DIESEN LEUTEN WIEDER VERTRAUEN SCHENKEN ODER SOLL ES SIE STATTDESSEN IGNORIEREN UND IM WEITEREN VERLAUF IN DER UKRAINE NÄGEL MIT KÖPFEN MACHEN, WOBEI DEM WESTEN KEINE MITSPRACHE MEHR EINGERÄUMT WIRD?
Thomas Modly had an eclectic career in the military, academia, business, and government when he answered the call to service in 2017 and returned to the Navy where his career began.
Cuando un mundo convulsionado y en cambio, que amenaza con intensificar la conflagración a gran escala, es relatado y reducido a la sempiterna lucha entre el bien y el mal, democracia contra autocracia, eso sólo puede significar una cosa: nos han hurtado el derecho a debatir, a discernir entre lo posible y lo inventado, entre hechos probados y propaganda.
**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two.
The international million copy bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the WW2______________In October 1942, an officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town .
Larga y compleja es la historia del uniforme militar, cuyos vínculos con la sociedad, el poder, el arte, la moda o la guerra, ejercen una misteriosa atracción sobre la vida de los hombres.
En las últimas dos décadas, las Fuerzas Militares y de Policía en América Latina han tenido un importante proceso de transformación, tanto internamente como en su campo relacional, lo cual ha contribuido a fundamentar la percepción de que la región latinoamericana sea un centro de análisis respecto a las relaciones entre la democracia y la fuerza pública.
El presente libro examina el concepto de guerra justa en la filosofia politica de Carl Schmitt, basandose en una amplia investigacion de las fuentes bibliograficas en idioma original.
Discover the daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilot 'Winkle Brown's astonishing adventures make for fascinating reading' SUNDAY TIMES'[A] thumping great biography by Britain's leading aviation historian' DAILY MAIL, 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'*MARITIME MEDIA AWARDS BEST BOOK NOMINEE*--Small in stature but immense in reputation and talent, there was more to Eric 'Winkle' Brown than met the eye.
Acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Craig Shirley delivers a compelling account of 1945, particularly the watershed events in the month of April, that details how America emerged from World War II as a leading superpower.
The Sultana was a sidewheel Mississippi steamboat carrying almost two thousand recently-released Union prisoners-of-war back north at the end of the Civil War.
Finalist, 2018, Reference, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardThe Maps of Fredericksburg: An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 - January 22, 1863 continues Bradley M.
They Were Soldiers showcases the inspiring true stories of 49 Vietnam veterans who returned home from the "e;lost war"e; to enrich America's present and future.
Valor features the thrilling stories that are the fruit of Mark Lee Greenblatt's interviews with brave American servicemen from twenty-first-century wars.
