Author : Dave R. Palmer
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0891415505
Soldier/scholar Palmer traces the history of the American involvement in Vietnam and shows how events in both the U.S. and Vietnam became inextricably linked as domestic dissent and a lack of realistic, viable military strategy ultimately led to America's first lost war. Index. 6 maps.
Author : Douglas V Smith
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1612514235
Published to coincide with the centennial celebration of U.S. Navy Aviation, this book chronicles Navy aviation from its earliest days, before the Navy’s first aircraft carrier joined the fleet, through the modern jet era marked by the introduction of the F-18 Hornet. It tells how naval aviation got its start, profiles its pioneers, and explains the early bureaucracy that fostered and sometimes inhibited its growth. The book then turns to the refinement of carrier aviation doctrine and tactics and the rapid development of aircraft and carriers, highlighting the transition from propeller-driven aircraft to swept wing jets in the period after WW II. Land-based Navy aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft and rigid airships, and balloons are also considered in this sweeping tribute.
Author : Rachel Isadora
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 1991-09-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0688109888
The story of Ben is fiction, but it could be the story of more than one jazz musician who grew up in the twenties. Using the art-deco style of the period, Rachel Isadora not only captures the poignancy and yearning of a youthful talent, but in page after page of striking art seems to convey the very sound of music.
Author : Dave Grossman
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1497629209
A controversial psychological examination of how soldiers’ willingness to kill has been encouraged and exploited to the detriment of contemporary civilian society. Psychologist and US Army Ranger Dave Grossman writes that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to pull the trigger in battle. Unfortunately, modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. The mental cost for members of the military, as witnessed by the increase in post-traumatic stress, is devastating. The sociological cost for the rest of us is even worse: Contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army’s conditioning techniques and, Grossman argues, is responsible for the rising rate of murder and violence, especially among the young. Drawing from interviews, personal accounts, and academic studies, On Killing is an important look at the techniques the military uses to overcome the powerful reluctance to kill, of how killing affects the soldier, and of the societal implications of escalating violence.
Author : Kenneth J. Hagan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 1986-03-26
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 1903
Category :
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Author : John Owen
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Puritans
ISBN :
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN :
Author : Terrence J. Donovan
Publisher : Terrence Donovan
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0615220770
In the spring of 1876, the U.S. Army was ordered to round up Sioux Indians who had left their reservation in Dakota Territory to join other Northern Plains Indians in southern Montana. By mid-June, General George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry Regiment had located a fresh Indian trail, and the Seventh went into fast pursuit. Late on a hot, Sunday afternoon, Custer led five companies of the Regiment to their doom at the hands of the Indians he had so aggressively chased down. They died on high ground overlooking the Little Big Horn River and a large Indian encampment on its far floodplain. Custer supporters, in shock and disbelief, stung by the unacceptable possibility that Custer may have blundered, were convinced that the Civil War boy general was abandoned to his fate by his subordinate commanders who despised him. Allegations soon flew that Captain Frederick W. Benteen tarried on the trail behind, disobeying a written order to come to Custer quickly. The question has remained: did Benteen tarry on the trail? In this book, the author takes an analytical look at the existing evidence and comes to a remarkable conclusion.
Author : John Owen
Publisher :
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 1840
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