The Carrier Corps
Author : Geoffrey Hodges
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Geoffrey Hodges
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Melvin E Page
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 1987-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1349188271
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780865477391
McPhee, in prose distinguished by its warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character, looks at the people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation.
Author : John P. Condon
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
Today, U.S. Marine infantry and armored units can count on timely and effective close air support thanks in part to the intrepid Marine pilots and crews who pioneered carrier-based air support of amphibious landings in the final push to defeat Japan in World War II. This little-known part of the Pacific campaign is explored fully for the first time in this detailed history by one of the program's architects.
Author : Charles A. Fleming
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Alan Bourque
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Melvin E Page
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 2021-06-02
Category :
ISBN : 9780367306304
This book focuses on the great War's effect on Africa in general and Malawi in particular. It describes the outbreak of the war, the recruitment of soldiers, the drafting of porters, the conditions of military life, the conditions on the home front, and the war's end.
Author : Ian Douglas
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 006197644X
In the vein of the hit television show Battlestar Galactica comes Earth Strike—the first book in the action-packed Star Carrier science fiction series by Ian Douglas, author of the popular Inheritance, Heritage, and Legacy Trilogies and one of the most adept writers of military sf working today. Earth Strike rockets readers into a vast and deadly intergalactic battle, as humankind attempts to bring down an evil empire and establish itself as the new major power. Fans of Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers and Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War, welcome aboard the Star Carrier!
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Cynthia Brantley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2024-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0520377834
The Giriama of Kenya's coastal hinterland persistently resisted colonialism, and they were unreceptive both to Christianity and to Islam. In 1912 the British colonial authorities earmarked the Giriama as a key source of labor for the plantations Europeans were trying to develop along the coast. The Giriama, prosperous producers and traders, could not become wage laborers and maintain their successful economy, and the British demands upon this scattered people therefore were spontaneously rejected. Increased pressure increased Giriama recalcitrance. Finally, military action brought defeat to the Giriama, whose only weapons were bows and arrows and whose decentralization prevented coordinated resistance. They lost their best lands, paid a heavy fine, and had to contribute a thousand laborers to the Carrier Corps. But the British costs were also heavy. The coastal plantations failed, few Giriama ever became wage laborers, and the entire area became depressed economically. Cynthia Brantley explores the precolonial Giriama's political and economic system and their dynamic trade relationship with the coast of Kenya in an effort to explain why the Giriama were so determined in their resistance to British pressure. She shows that even when the political and social structures of a people seem weak, it is unlikely that the population will submit to changes that undermine the economy. Moreover, their very lack of a centralized political or religious organization made the imposition of foreign administration extremely difficult. The British won the war, but their victory was hollow. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.