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Lifting the Fog of Peace
How Americans Learned to Fight Modern War
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Lifting the Fog of Peace puts the U.S. military’s frustrating experiences in Iraq into context and reveals how the military was able to turn the tide during the so-called surge in 2007–8.“Lifting the Fog of Peace is a captivating study of an agile and adaptive military evolving through the chaos...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This exceptionally detailed and authoritative atlas of a major Civil War campaign is a superb leader development tool and educational reference, providing a heavy dose of tactical detail and...
Churchill and Stalin's Secret Agents
Operation Pickaxe at RAF Tempsford
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Churchill and Stalin secretly agreed that Britain would infiltrate Soviet agents into occupied Western Europe. Liaison began between the NKVD and the SOE, each country's secret service. Transported in convoys across the Arctic Ocean and...
The Southern Flank in Crisis, 1973-1976
Series III, Volume V: Documents on British Policy Overseas
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
A fascinating collection of British foreign policy documents covering reactions in Whitehall to political change and revolution in the Mediterranean basin from 1973 to 1976.
This volume contains many previously unpublished documents, including Joint Intelligence Committee papers, which cast...
by Captain Robert G. Fix
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
More so than any other operation, the Campaign to seize Okinawa in the closing days of World War II represents the greatest joint effort undertaken by the US Military. From its organization to the way it fought, Tenth Army incorporated every element of the service to a degree never before attempted...
by Department of the Army
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Imagine working all day in 100-degree plus temperatures under constant life-threatening circumstances, sometimes relying only on the negligible amount of hydration from a cactus you’ve dug up. This is the life of a U.S. Army soldier in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, which is why the...
by Department of the Army
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Recognizing that “wars are not won by machines and weapons but by the soldiers who use them,” this comprehensive manual not only informs the reader of the timeless skills necessary to survive on the battlefield, but also instructs the soldier on how to perform and execute these tasks to succeed...
The Great Wall at Sea, 2nd Edition
China's Navy in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
In this new edition, Bernard Cole revises his acclaimed study of China s navy, one that continues to grow while the U.S. Navy shrinks. According to the author, Beijing is now giving increased attention to guarding its vital sea lanes because of the nation s growing dependence on maritime trade, especially...
Defend and Befriend
The U.S. Marine Corps and Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
After relatively successful military interventions in Iraq in 1992 and Yugoslavia in 1998, many American strategists believed that airpower and remote technology were the future of U.S. military action. But America's most recent wars in the Middle East have reinforced the importance of counterinsurgency,...
Siegfried Line 1944–45
Battles on the German frontier
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The campaign on the German frontier in late 1944 was one of the most frustrating and costly efforts by the US Army in the ETO. The Allies first encountered the Siegfried Line (Westwall) fortifications in September 1944, having pursued the retreating Wehrmacht through Belgium and the Netherlands. The...
by Andrius Genys
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2014
This e-book is a reference guide on modern armored personnel carriers (APCs). It covers more than 100 vehicles from 39 countries and provides photos and basic information with specifications. It contains information on current production vehicles as well as prototypes and latest developments. Some...
Charge! Hurrah! Hurrah!
A Life of Cardigan of Balaclava
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
For James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, leading the Light Brigade at Balaclava was but one incident in a life of sensation and notoriety. Donald Thomas’s biography, originally published in 1977, and based on new material when originally published, shows this most controversial Victorian...
by Simon MacDowall
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
How a relatively small group of Germans came to be overlords of all of the former Roman province of Gaul—giving their name to France in the process.
Simon MacDowall studies the Frankish way of warfare and assesses its effectiveness, from their earliest incursions into the Empire, down to the...
America at War
Concise Histories of U.S. Military Conflicts From Lexington to Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
War—organized violence against an enemy of the state—seems part and parcel of the American journey. Indeed, the United States was established by means of violence as ordinary citizens from New Hampshire to Georgia answered George Washington’s call to arms.
Since then, war has become a...