Potomac Books Inc : 472 books

Cover of Pain Gang
by Neil Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006

No sport demands toughness more than professional football, and no sport celebrates it with as much joy, excitement, and pride. John Madden annually offers his picks of the top tough guys, and sick hits are shown repeatedly on jumbotrons nationwide and ESPNÆs Sportscenter. Anyone whoÆs ever watched...
Cover of Misguided Weapons
by Azriel Lorber
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002

Technological failure results when one side in a conflict does not fully grasp the potential impact of known, or even familiar, weapons in the enemyÆs hands. In most cases, such failure resulted from higher officialsÆ ignorance or their total misunderstanding of the importance and relevance of such...
Cover of The Gulf Between Us
by Cynthia B. Acree; Cliff Acree
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2001

A Marine squadron commander prepares his men for combat and on the second day of the Gulf War, is shot down by a Surface to Air Missile and captured by the Iraqis. As a pilot, senior Marine and squadron Commanding Officer, Acree is a goldmine of the tactical information that the iraqis so desperately...
Cover of Greene
by Steven E Siry
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006

Born into a Quaker family, Nathanael Greene had nothing in his background that pointed to a military career. His total military training before mid-1775, when he abandoned pacifism, consisted of serving as a private in the Rhode Island militia for a few hours each week. Yet, no doubt because of his leadership...
Cover of Pick Up Your Own Brass
by Kathleen McChesney; William Gavin
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011

In FBI terms, leaders who pick up their own brass casings at the firing range are more effective than those who expect someone else to do it for them. To those at the bureau, this small action speaks louder than words and is largely indicative of a persons overall management style. Through a host of...
Cover of Science's Most Wanted™
by Linda Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2002

Science and technology have had more than their share of the good, the bad, and the bogus. Alfred William Lawson, the designer of the first airliner, believed that two types of creatures lived within the brainù ôMenorgs,ö which were the mental organizers responsible for all good things, and ôDisorgs,ö...
Cover of Aircraft Carriers

Aircraft Carriers

A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume I: 1909-1945

by Norman Polmar
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006

Aircraft Carriers is the definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. Norman Polmar’s revised and updated, two-volume classic describes the political and technological factors that influenced aircraft carrier design and construction, meticulously records their operations,...
Cover of Mexico Behind the Mask

Mexico Behind the Mask

A Narrative, Past and Present

by Beldon Butterfield
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012

In light of current events related to immigration issues, the drug war along the border, and the North American Free Trade Agreement, Beldon Butterfield's insightful and informative history of the complex relationship between Mexico and the United States is both timely and useful.Butterfield...
Cover of John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power
by John Andreas Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007

****Included on the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force's reading list for 2008 and the Royal Air Force's Centre for Air Power Studies 2008 Reading List****Dr. John Andreas Olsen has written an insightful, compelling biography of retired U.S. Air Force colonel John A. Warden III, the brilliant...
Cover of Smart Power

Smart Power

Between Diplomacy and War

by Christian Whiton
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013

From China's cyber war on America to Islamist victories across the Middle East to the lengthening shadow cast by Iran, the Washington establishment has failed to neutralize foreign threats that are becoming more dangerous. No one on the political left or right has articulated a realistic defense strategy...
Cover of Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome's Greatest Enemy
by Richard A. Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011

The Romans' destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal's life. What we know of him comes exclusively from Roman historians who had every interest in minimizing his success, exaggerating his failures, and disparaging his character. The charges...
Cover of To the Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam
by Tom A. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006

Helicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers. But these “rotor heads” saved thousands of American lives while performing what the Army classified as the most dangerous job it had to offer. One in eighteen did not return home. Tom A. Johnson flew the...
Cover of The Most Famous Woman in Baseball: Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues
by Bob Luke
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011

Never one to mince words, Effa Manley once wrote a letter to sportswriter Art Carter, saying that she hoped they could meet soon because “I would like to tell you a lot of things you should know about baseball.” From 1936 to 1948, Manley ran the Negro league Newark Eagles that her husband, Abe, owned...
Cover of Lethal Logic: Exploding the Myths That Paralyze American Gun Policy
by Dennis A. Henigan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009

“Guns don't kill people; people kill people.”“When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”“An armed society is a polite society.”Who hasn't heard these engaging assertions, time and time again? Burned into the national consciousness by years of targeted, disciplined messaging by...
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