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Author : David C. Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780861241262
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Shock Troops written by David C. Knight and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David C. Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Shock Troops: the History of Elite Corps and Special written by David C. Knight and published by . This book was released on with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heather Venable
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682474828
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)
Download or read book How the Few Became the Proud written by Heather Venable and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves or to the public at large. As neither a land-based organization like the Army nor an entirely sea-based one like the Navy, the Corps' missions overlapped with both institutions. This work argues that the Marine Corps could not and would not settle on a mission, and therefore it turned to an image to ensure its institutional survival. The process by which a maligned group of nineteenth-century naval policemen began to consider themselves to be elite warriors benefited from the active engagement of Marine officers with the Corps' historical record as justification for its very being. Rather than look forward and actively seek out a mission that could secure their existence, late nineteenth-century Marines looked backward and embraced the past. They began to justify their existence by invoking their institutional traditions, their many martial engagements, and their claim to be the nation's oldest and proudest military institution. This led them to celebrate themselves as superior to soldiers and sailors. Although there are countless works on this hallowed fighting force, How the Few Became the Proud is the first to explore how the Marine Corps crafted such powerful myths.
Author : Blaine Taylor
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Guarding the Fuhrer written by Blaine Taylor and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was one of the most controversial politicians and military commanders in all recorded history. As such, his life was conspired against by all manner of enemies, both foreign and domestic: German and Russian Communists, political and military opponents, rival Nazi leaders, and the intelligence services of the Allied powers, among them the British SOE. Dozens of attempts were made on his life over the course of two decades, including a bomb explosion in his own headquarters and yet, he survived them all. This is the story of how he did so, as told via the exciting sagas of Sepp Dietrich and his SS, as well as of German government security leader Johann Rattenhuber and his Reich Security Service, the RSD. Here we see the measures used to protect Hitler in public, his cars, planes, trains, homes, military headquarters scattered across conquered Europe, and during personal appearances. Ironically, of course, in the end Hitler decided to take his own life in the infamous Berlin bunker, but this is the story of how a man that so many people wanted dead managed to stay alive for so long in volatile circumstances.
Author : Bryan Perrett
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473847508
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Impossible Victories written by Bryan Perrett and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military historian takes an in-depth look at a selection of surprising battlefield successes. Victory on the battlefield is sometimes achieved against the odds—victory snatched from the jaws of apparently inevitable defeat. A daring counterattack, an unexpected maneuver, a stubborn refusal to be beaten, and the impossible victory is won. In the ten dramatic episodes in this book, military historian Bryan Perrett revisits battles from the Peninsula War of 1811 to Vietnam in 1967, via colonial action in two world wars.
Author : Fred Pushies
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 0760351538
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book US Special Ops written by Fred Pushies and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the inside scoop on US military special operations. From weapons, gear, missions, and commandos, learn every military secret from the eighteenth century to today. Few aspects of the US military pique people's interest more than special ops. Due to the clandestine nature of their missions, weapons, and gear, these elite fighting forces are cloaked in an aura of intrigue that has only ratcheted upward with the expanded roles they have assumed in today's world, not to mention their recent and frequent appearances in film, books, and other mass media. In US Special Ops, longtime military author and special-ops expert Fred Pushies takes on the entire scope of America's elite fighting forces, beginning with their earliest days. Pushies profiles hundreds of weapons, gear, vehicles, missions, and commandos, from eighteenth-century fighters like Francis Marion right up through the most advanced capabilities of today's Green Berets, Rangers, SEALs, Marine Force Recon, US Air Force combat controllers, CIA Special Activities Division, and more - well over 350 entries in all. From the tomahawks used by Rogers's Rangers to special-ops legends like Col. Aaron Bank to Operation Neptune Spear and beyond, US Special Ops is a comprehensive, informative, and unique survey of all aspects of US special operations, past and present.
Author : Marc Cerasini
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780028643731
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (437 download)
Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to the U.S. Special Ops Forces written by Marc Cerasini and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the face of modern US warfare in the 21st century. The US Special Operations Forces will be at the forefront of every battle that the US will wage against the war on terrorism.
Author : Paolo Enrico Coletta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Annotated Bibliography of U.S. Marine Corps History written by Paolo Enrico Coletta and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extremely interesting and important subject, Marine Corps history should not be studied or portrayed in a vacuum. Therefore, in addition to strictly Marine Corps matters, attention herein has been given, where necessary and appropriate, to diplomatic, maritime, naval, military, aviation, geographical, political, economic, social, intellectual, scientific, technological, organizational, administrative, and personal history"--Explanatory notes.
Author : Chris McNab
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782003177
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book America’s Elite written by Chris McNab and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive illustrated history of American Special Forces, including their training, tactics, weapons and famous missions. America's Elites takes the reader through some of the most dramatic special forces operations in US history, from sniping British commanders during the Revolutionary War to Riverine incursions in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, and from demolition missions on D-Day to the SEAL assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in 2011. Training and selection procedures are explained in detail, and the book also describes some of the technologies that have separated regular soldiers from their Special Forces counterparts. Illustrated throughout with striking photography and artworks, America's Elites forms the most comprehensive and visually impressive single-volume guide to US Special Forces available.
Author : John Pimlott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780863077883
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (778 download)
Download or read book The Elite written by John Pimlott and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Avinash C. Maheshwary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Catalog of the Louis and Nancy H. Dupree Collection written by Avinash C. Maheshwary and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hannah Arendt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156701532
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Origins of Totalitarianism written by Hannah Arendt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1973 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times, even if they are different and perhaps less dark, and "Origins" raises a set of fundamental questions about how tyranny can arise and the dangerous forms of inhumanity to which it can lead." Jeffrey C. Isaac, The Washington Post Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our time--Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia--which she adroitly recognizes were two sides of the same coin, rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the evolution of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, the use of terror, and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination.
Author : John C. Fredriksen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598848119
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Fighting Elites written by John C. Fredriksen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Army Rangers to Green Berets to the U.S. Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden, this book explains what makes Special Forces "special," covering the rich and varied history of elite formations in American military history and describing their recruitment, intense training, and equipment in depth. Most civilians have only a vague idea of what the U.S. Special Forces are all about—who they are, how they differ from our "normal" military forces, what they've accomplished throughout our history, and how they operate today. Fighting Elites: A History of U.S. Special Forces examines the rich and varied history of U.S. Special Forces, identifies their contributions to specific conflicts from colonial times forward, and highlights their present operational excellence. In this first-ever reference guide to U.S. Special Forces, military historian John C. Fredriksen provides a carefully balanced presentation, describing all units in their own detailed section that discusses their origins, recruitment, training, tactics, and equipment, and defining military engagements, if known. The text also contains 20 biographical entries of noted personalities associated with special purpose activities.
Download or read book The Marine Corps Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Balkan Battlegrounds written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yuval Noah Harari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843834526
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550 written by Yuval Noah Harari and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind looks at covert operations and assassination plots in the medieval period, matching anything to be found in our own era.
Author : Michael Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312378264
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (782 download)
Download or read book Killer Elite written by Michael Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British journalist specializing in defense topics offers a readable, useful addition to the literature on American special operations forces.
