Author : Fred Johnson
Publisher : Fred Johnson
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780998171494
The stunning memoir of a 29-year Army veteran with two tours in Iraq and one each in Afghanistan and Bosnia.
Author : Ernie J. Altbacker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1595144765
Drinnnok, aided by Hokuu, plans to free his prehistoric monsters and destroy Gary.
Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Military art and science
ISBN :
Author : Peter Annin
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 159726637X
The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.
Author : Adelbert Scholtz
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1666768502
A South African, with a German Jewish father and an Afrikaans mother, rises to the rank of major general in the Wehrmacht, the Nazi war machine, during the Second World War. He was also involved in the South African War of 1899-1902 (as a boy), the First World War with the conquest of German South West Africa by South African troops (on the German side), the Spanish Civil War (as a member of the Condor Legion) and the struggle of the Irish Republican Army against the British (on the Catholic side)--and often he had to adopt a new identity to stay out of trouble. He recovered remarkably easily from severe wounds and injuries.
Author : Col. Austin Bay
Publisher : Bombardier Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1682616622
Even in the absence of a major war, the world remains a dangerous place. Fuses are lit in practically every region and on every continent, which could eventually ignite a global conflagration and draw the world’s superpowers into a deadly and catastrophic conflict. The U.S., Russia, and China all eye these regional conflicts with care—each hoping to use this turmoil to its advantage. Meanwhile, each of these countries attempts to avoid major direct intervention that would trigger their rivals into action. We are, perhaps, at the most dangerous moment since 1914, when similar smoldering conflicts led to the senseless mass slaughter known as World War I. In Cocktails from Hell, Col. Austin Bay provides a concise and indispensable guide to the most dangerous threats against peace facing the United States—and the world. An expert in military strategy, analysis, and planning, Bay uses his critical eye and sharp pen to bring each of these bubbling global situations into sharp focus, both in their local and global contexts. Civilian students of war and military experts alike will benefit from his knowledge and insights. If you truly want to understand the state of today’s society—and the role that the U.S. must play in order to successfully avoid the next Great War—this book is a must-read.
Author : The Rt Hon the Lord Owen CH
Publisher : Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 1998-06-16
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
The death of Yugoslavia was the consequence of the death of Communism in 1989. The vacuum left by the authoritarian unifying forces was filled by a nationalist leader, and control of the state moved from one central authority to the Presidents of the different Yugoslav republics. While at the outset in 1990, the US wanted to maintain the unity of the Yugoslav state, it was not prepared to take any action that would have stopped this process, e.g., preventing Croatia and Slovenia from declaring their independence. Lord Owen describes the results of the US desire to be seen as a leader throughout the five wars in former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1998 and its unwillingness to accept the risks and responsibilities that arise from the exercise of global leadership. He urges the formulation of intergovernmental cooperation among European states in order to support European common foreign and security policies with military clout.
Author : Lucasfilm Press
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781368051873
A brand-new collection of 12 action-packed retellings that span the entire Star Wars saga including two tales from The Last Jedi. These exciting stories can each be read in just five minutes--ideal for galactic adventures at lightspeed! Illustrations.
Author : Michael Beschloss
Publisher : Crown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0307409619
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “superb and important” (The New York Times Book Review) saga of America’s wartime chief executives “Fascinating and heartbreaking . . . timely . . . Beschloss’s broad scope lets you draw important crosscutting lessons about presidential leadership.”—Bill Gates Widely acclaimed and ten years in the making, Michael Beschloss’s Presidents of War is an intimate and irresistibly readable chronicle of the Chief Executives who took the United States into conflict and mobilized it for victory. From the War of 1812 to Vietnam, we see these leaders considering the difficult decision to send hundreds of thousands of Americans to their deaths; struggling with Congress, the courts, the press, and antiwar protesters; seeking comfort from their spouses and friends; and dropping to their knees in prayer. Through Beschloss’s interviews with surviving participants and findings in original letters and once-classified national security documents, we come to understand how these Presidents were able to withstand the pressures of war—or were broken by them. Presidents of War combines this sense of immediacy with the overarching context of two centuries of American history, traveling from the time of our Founders, who tried to constrain presidential power, to our modern day, when a single leader has the potential to launch nuclear weapons that can destroy much of the human race. Praise for Presidents of War "A marvelous narrative. . . . As Beschloss explains, the greatest wartime presidents successfully leaven military action with moral concerns. . . . Beschloss’s writing is clean and concise, and he admirably draws upon new documents. Some of the more titillating tidbits in the book are in the footnotes. . . . There are fascinating nuggets on virtually every page of Presidents of War. It is a superb and important book, superbly rendered.”—Jay Winik, The New York Times Book Review "Sparkle and bite. . . . Valuable and engrossing study of how our chief executives have discharged the most significant of all their duties. . . . Excellent. . . . A fluent narrative that covers two centuries of national conflict.” —Richard Snow, The Wall Street Journal
Author : Robert Sweatmon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : 9781594162824
A Personal Reflection of a Frontline Soldier in Vietnam and Cambodia During the Cultural Maelstrom of the 1960s In late 1969, twenty-year-old Robert Sweatmon received a letter informing him that he had ten days to report to the United States Army. Like thousands of others, he had been drafted. Assigned as a rifleman with a mechanized unit, the author began a year-long odyssey in the Southeast Asian wilderness that would change his and his fellow soldiers' lives forever. Taking its title from the nighttime radio code call and response between base camp and those on ambush patrol, Five Four Whiskey: A Memory of War is a moving account of life as a combat soldier in the Vietnam War. Set mostly in the sprawling woods and rubber plantations northwest of Saigon, the author explains what his unit was asked to do and what obstacles they faced, including an elusive but deadly enemy, multiple kinds of booby traps, and antitank mines. The author, a notable television personality following the war, does not sensationalize his account; rather, his book allows a new generation to understand the emotional and physical pressures of the times. Coming of age in the maelstrom of civil rights and the free love culture, the author and his fellow soldiers saw their idealism quickly vaporize in the face of the grim realities of war. Here they learned to compartmentalize their lives as a way to survive, but it was their strong bonds that ultimately kept them from succumbing to the madness that surrounded them. Kept in the field for almost the entire time of his tour, the author was in a unit selected to conduct a clandestine reconnaissance in Cambodia and then lead the 1970 invasion, where he was wounded. Following his convalescence, he was sent to Nui Ba Den, the fabled ghost mountain haunted by the spirit of a Vietnamese princess, until he received his papers that he had completed his combat service. At that moment, his year-long mental wall between soldier and civilian fell away as he counted the last terrifying hours before he was safely out of Vietnam. A tour-de-force of military memoir, written in an objective and often literary prose, Five Four Whiskey perfectly captures how ordinary civilian-soldiers survived an ordeal set in one of the most turbulent times in American history.
