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This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the United States Marine Corps, from 1775, through their service in World Wars 1 and 2, through to Korea and Vietnam. Uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail.

America deployed a diverse group of special operations forces (SOF) throught World War II and in Korea. These elite units quickly earned a redoubtable reputation and proved themselves adept at hit-and-run raids, gathering intelligence in long range patrols, rescuing PoWs and living and fighting in...

This aviation handbook is intended to provide the reader with a quick reference to the propeller-driven aircraft flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Canadian Forces in the post-WWII piston-era. The handbooks in this series include a general description...

Photos of retired American military aircraft, emphasizing their nose art.

“In The Naval Air War in Korea, Dr. Hallion has captured the fact, feel- ing, and fancy of a very important conflict in aviation history, in- cluding the highly significant facets of the transition from piston to jet-propelled combat aircraft.”—Norman Polmar, author of Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, 18th Edition

This is the story of the remarkable, intersecting careers of the two greatest writers on British naval history in the twentieth century – the American professor Arthur Marder, son of immigrant Russian Jews, and Captain Stephen Roskill, who knew the Royal Navy from the inside. Between them, these...

Brassey's presents the candid and revealing wartime memoir of the twenty-nine year-old man who became South Korea's first four-star general. With photographs and a foreword by the commanders of U.S. forces in the war, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway and Gen. James A. Van Fleet, FROM PUSAN TO PANMUNJON brings an unprecedented perspective to a cataclysmic war.

Commissioned in the US Infantry after two years Royal Canadian Army and a year training in the US Army Air Force, ending in Czechoslovakia facing Ruskies and Dud's rifle platoon is overrun on an outpost and he plays dead while the screaming Chinese Fourth Field Army trots by. On the 23rd of the May...

Eighteen-year-old Johnny Moore was an energetic, self-confident private first class when he entered combat with a heavy-weapons platoon in Korea. Four and a half months later, after surviving heavy attacks on the Pusan Perimeter and in one of the forward units of the western column advancing on the...

OPERATION KILLER: THE SAVAGE SLAUGHTER… The war in Korea was not, officially, a war, even though men died fighting it. The conditions were unlike those encountered in any other theatre of war. In this novel, based on some of the experiences of the author, we meet men of the 23rd Regiment...

Introduction /The GARRYOWEN /The Author /Legacy of the 7th Cavalry/ Genera George A Custer/ From the Commanders/ The Commanders/ ADVANCE TO THE REAR/ COUNTERATTACK/ CHINESE SPRING OFFENSIVE/ IRON TRIANGLE/ Campaigns/ Medal of Honor/ Charts/ Extracts/ Esprit de Corps to the GARRYOWEN/ OCCUPATION DUTY...

After World War II, the major powers faced social upheaval at home and anti-colonial wars around the globe. Alarmed by conflict in Korea that could change U.S.-Soviet relations from chilly to nuclear, ordinary people and policymakers created a fantasy of a bipolar Cold War world in which global and domestic order was paramount, Masuda Hajimu shows.

Islamist Militants, those who use violence and terror, must fear America. Islamic terrorists must know they have a ticket to Hellfire—not to Paradise. Modern Muslims must know they can trust America. Americans must know that Islamist Moderates are wolves in sheep's clothing. Victory tells...

Nan-hee Park left Japan in 1939 to join her fianc, Won-sup Shim, who lived in a port city on the East Coast of Korea, which was not yet divided into North and South. As she was preparing to leave, her parents shared a premonition: Shed face tough times in her homeland. But it was just a vague,...