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Author : Kenneth Macksey
Publisher : Harvill Secker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Commando Strike written by Kenneth Macksey and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1985 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Macksey, Kenneth
Publisher : [Don Mills, Ont.] : Stoddart
ISBN 13 : 9780773720978
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Commando Strike : the Story of Amphibious Raiding in World War II written by Macksey, Kenneth and published by [Don Mills, Ont.] : Stoddart. This book was released on 1985 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Commando Strike written by Michael Owen and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew L. Hargreaves
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806151277
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Special Operations in World War II written by Andrew L. Hargreaves and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British and American commanders first used modern special forces in support of conventional military operations during World War II. Since then, although special ops have featured prominently in popular culture and media coverage of wars, the academic study of irregular warfare has remained as elusive as the practitioners of special operations themselves. This book is the first comprehensive study of the development, application, and value of Anglo-American commando and special forces units during the Second World War. Special forces are intensively trained, specially selected military units performing unconventional and often high-risk missions. In this book, Andrew L. Hargreaves not only describes tactics and operations but also outlines the distinctions between commandos and special forces, traces their evolution during the war, explains how the Anglo-American alliance functioned in the creation and use of these units, looks at their command and control arrangements, evaluates their impact, and assesses their cost-effectiveness. The first real impetus for the creation of British specialist formations came in the desperate summer of 1940 when, having been pushed out of Europe following defeat in France and the Low Countries, Britain began to turn to irregular forces in an effort to wrest back the strategic initiative from the enemy. The development of special forces by the United States was also a direct consequence of defeat. After Pearl Harbor, Hargreaves shows, the Americans found themselves in much the same position as Britain had been in 1940: shocked, outnumbered, and conventionally defeated, they were unable to come to grips with the enemy on a large scale. By the end of the war, a variety of these units had overcome a multitude of evolutionary hurdles and made valuable contributions to practically every theater of operation. In describing how Britain and the United States worked independently and cooperatively to invent and put into practice a fundamentally new way of waging war, this book demonstrates the two nations’ flexibility, adaptability, and ability to innovate during World War II.
Author : LTC Fred S. Lindsey
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477273077
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)
Download or read book Secret Green Beret Commandos in Cambodia written by LTC Fred S. Lindsey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We could call this book Special Operations Recon Mission Impossible. A small group of highly trained, resourceful US Special Forces (SF) men is asked to go in teams behind the enemy lines to gather intelligence on the North Vietnamese Army units that had infiltrated through Laos and Cambodia down the Ho Chi Minh trails to their secret bases inside the Cambodian border west of South Vietnam. The covert reconnaissance teams, of only two or three SF men with four or five experienced indigenous mercenaries each, were tasked to go into enemy target areas by foot or helicopter insertion. They could be 15 kilometers beyond any other friendly forces, with no artillery support. In sterile uniforms - with no insignia or identification, if they were killed or captured, their government would deny their military connection. The enemy had placed a price on their heads and had spies in their Top Secret headquarters known as SOG. SOG had three identical recon ground units along the border areas. This book tells the history of Command and Control Detachment South (CCS). The CCS volunteer warriors and its Air Partners the Army and Air Force helicopter transport and gunship crews who lived and fought together and sometimes died together. This is the first published history of CCS as compiled by its last living commander, some forty years after they were disbanded. It tells of the struggles and intrigue involved in SOGs development as the modern-day legacy of our modern Special Operations Commands. Forbidden to tell of their experiences for over twenty years; their After Action Reports destroyed even before they were declassified surviving veterans team together to tell how Recon men wounded averaged 100 percent; and SOG became the most highly decorated unit in Vietnam and all were awarded the Presidential Unit Citation.
Author : David Alexander
Publisher : Triumvirate Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Nomad written by David Alexander and published by Triumvirate Publications. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nomad spelled backwards is "Damon" which is similar to the name for a self-configuring, self-actuating computer program that runs in the background, or throughout the digital space inside a computer Tabor was in the matrix room, looking at Armageddon. Projected onto one of the walls was an immense blowup of one of the WIRE hardware drug chips, the core layer known as the "matrix." A technician was explaining how this new plug drug, to be called "Armageddon," would be twice as potent as any drug of its type that had been manufactured before. "We've squeezed in a million more transistors," the tech explained proudly to Tabor. "A hit of one of these can be incredibly addictive." "What's the downside?" Tabor asked the techie. "And why hasn't production on this line been instituted yet?" "Well," answered the tech a little sheepishly, "there have been some problems in our development cycle. I'll show you if you'll permit me." He asked Tabor to come with him. They went from the projection room into the research wing. Here, a thick pane of double-layered glass gave vantage into a testing area. A recording camera was also pointed at the pane of glass, staring into the room like Tabor and the tech were doing. Inside the room beyond the large glass panel were two shaven headed Motherboarder clones in their flowing white robes. The acolytes were sitting on the floor, staring at the walls with blank expressions on their faces. "Everything ready?" the tech asked a woman in a blue laboratory coat like the one he wore who was seated at a console filled with multiple view screens and flashing digital displays
Author : Gordon Holman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Commando Attack written by Gordon Holman and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hobbs
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 184832412X
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book The British Carrier Strike Fleet after 1945 written by David Hobbs and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A comprehensive study of the bittersweet post WWII history of British naval aviation . . . will become a standard reference for its subject.”—Firetrench In 1945 the most powerful fleet in the Royal Navy’s history was centered on nine aircraft carriers. This book charts the post-war fortunes of this potent strike force; its decline in the face of diminishing resources, its final fall at the hands of uncomprehending politicians, and its recent resurrection in the form of the Queen Elizabeth class carriers, the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. After 1945 “experts” prophesied that nuclear weapons would make conventional forces obsolete, but British carrier-borne aircraft were almost continuously employed in numerous conflicts as far apart as Korea, Egypt, the Persian Gulf, the South Atlantic, East Africa and the Far East, often giving successive British Governments options when no others were available. In the process the Royal Navy invented many of the techniques and devices crucial to modern carrier operations angled decks, steam catapults and deck-landing aids while also pioneering novel forms of warfare like helicopter-borne assault, and tactics for countering such modern plagues as insurgency and terrorism. This book combines narratives of these poorly understood operations with a clear analysis of the strategic and political background, benefiting from the author's personal experience of both carrier flying and the workings of Whitehall. It is an important but largely untold story, of renewed significance as Britain once again embraces carrier aviation. “Makes a timely and welcome appearance . . . will make compelling reading for those with serious concern for our naval affairs.”—St. Andrews in Focus
Author : John Sadler
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398117684
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The Heavy Water War written by John Sadler and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Hitler had succeeded in developing a nuclear bomb, that could have been both the end of the Second World War and of civilisation as we know it. A handful of commandos stopped him.
Author : John Prados
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 1615780114
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Safe for Democracy written by John Prados and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its founding in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency has been discovered in the midst of some of the most crucial-and most embarrassing-episodes in United States relations with the world. Safe for Democracy for the first time places the story of the CIA's covert operations squarely in the context of America's global quest for democratic values and institutions. National security historian John Prados offers a comprehensive history of the CIA's secret wars that is as close to a definitive account as is possible today.
Author : Peter Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780949284709
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Strike Swiftly written by Peter Collins and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational story of commando service in Australia, starting with the early Independent Companies and their remarkable exploits against the Japanese in WWII. Gives a remarkable insight into a close knit unit of highly trained individuals with extraordinary skills.
Author : Daniel R. Budnik
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476626871
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book '80s Action Movies on the Cheap written by Daniel R. Budnik and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1980s was the decade when the action film as it's now known came into being. Nonstop, big-budget excitement became the standard as epic adventures like Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Road Warrior set the tone for the summer blockbusters of Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chuck Norris. Homages (and ripoffs) made with lesser budgets followed every hit, especially with the advent of direct-to-video releases. Providing detailed commentary on 284 films, this book explores the excitement, audacity and sheer weirdness of '80s low budget action cinema, from the American Ninja series to dime-a-dozen barbarian pictures to such bargain-basement productions as The Courier of Death, Kill Squad and Samurai Cop.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Case
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780446566278
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (662 download)
Download or read book Cody's Army: D.C. Firestrike written by Jim Case and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation Firehawk. Staging area: America's capitol. Target: the world's most prestigious hostage. And now the job to bring back the President--alive--belongs to Cody's Army. Because nobody fights dirtier, or gets the job done better.
Author : Kenneth C. Woskett
Publisher : Kenneth Woskett
ISBN 13 : 0646523171
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (465 download)
Download or read book Puberty at Eighty written by Kenneth C. Woskett and published by Kenneth Woskett. This book was released on 2009 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puberty at Eighty is a self deprecating analysis of his life at sea and on shore in many lands, many occupations and in hard times and in good.
Author : Larry Maisner
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1583485546
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Engines of Corruption written by Larry Maisner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power and apathy are fuel for the Engines of Corruption. The power wielded by the ruthless, and the apathy of law allow the independent crime lords of the underworld to collaborate and establish a powerful international crime cartel. This underworld force, headed by U.S. crime lord Cy Manat, hides behind the protections afforded by constitutional law that allow them to acquire commercial and industrial enterprises using racketeering methods. The complacent law enforcement agencies see no danger. But a police officer, Harold Parkins does. He can't confide in his superiors – the crime lords have corrupted them as well. So, using his powers of persuasion, personal friends and a great deal of chutzpah, he recruits a cadre of powerful international personalities in industry and the government. These movers and shakers create a benign but hi-tech underworld of their own to fight the crime lords on equal terms.
Author : Malcolm H. Murfett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134048130
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Naval Warfare 1919-45 written by Malcolm H. Murfett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naval Warfare 1919–45 is a comprehensive history of the war at sea from the end of the Great War to the end of World War Two. Showing the bewildering nature and complexity of the war facing those charged with fighting it around the world, this book ranges far and wide: sweeping across all naval theatres and those powers performing major, as well as minor, roles within them. Armed with the latest material from an extensive set of sources, Malcolm H. Murfett has written an absorbing as well as a comprehensive reference work. He demonstrates that superior equipment and the best intelligence, ominous power and systematic planning, vast finance and suitable training are often simply not enough in themselves to guarantee the successful outcome of a particular encounter at sea. Sometimes the narrow difference between victory and defeat hinges on those infinite variables: the individual’s performance under acute pressure and sheer luck. Naval Warfare 1919–45 is an analytical and interpretive study which is an accessible and fascinating read both for students and for interested members of the general public.
