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Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Damned Engineers written by Janice Holt Giles and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How one battalion of Combat Engineers stalled Hitler's offensive in the Battle of the Bulge"--Jacket subtitle.
Author : Janet Holt Giles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (791 download)
Download or read book The Damned Engineers written by Janet Holt Giles and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782000526
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book US Combat Engineer 1941–45 written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its peak in World War II, the United States Army contained over 700 engineer battalions, along with numerous independent brigades and regiments. The specialized soldiers of the Engineers were tasked with a wide variety of crucially important tasks including river bridging, camouflage, airfield construction, and water and petroleum supply. However, despite their important support roles, the engineers were often employed on the front lines fighting beside the general infantry in the desperate battles of the European theatre. This book covers the role of these soldiers, from their recruitment and training, through their various support missions and combat experiences, forming an account of what it was truly like to be a combat engineer in World War II.
Author : Colonel David E. Pergrin
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 9780760324080
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book First Across the Rhine written by Colonel David E. Pergrin and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2006-03-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what quickly came to be called the Battle of the Bulge, the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion found itself directly in the path of the German spearhead. With heart-stopping suspense, Colonel David Pergrin describes one of the European theater's critical delaying actions as his unit destroyed bridges, planted mines, and defended roadblocks in the face of oncoming tank columns. Here, in gritty detail, is the story of how ""those damned Engineers"" ruined Hitler's winter offensive, and how the 291st, with a reputation almost as big as its accomplishments, went on to build a 1100-foot pontoon bridge across the Rhine at Remagen in 32 hours-in the face of fierce opposition and near-impossible odds. Pergrin follows the battalion from its formation and training through the campaigns in France, Belgium, and Germany, making us witness the genuine heroics, skill, and spirit that lifted the 291st to the realm of legend.
Author : Lois Lembo
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611214041
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book A Combat Engineer with Patton's Army written by Lois Lembo and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An engaging and often frightening story” of a member of the 305th Engineering Battalion of the 80th Infantry Division (Andrew Z. Adkins III, coauthor of You Can’t Get Much Closer Than This). A Combat Engineer with Patton’sArmy is the untold story of Frank Lembo, one of George Patton’s men who helped move the American command in the battle of Argentan in the Normandy Campaign, in the high-speed pursuit of the German Wehrmacht eastward across France, and in the brutal battles waged during the Battle of the Bulge and during the final combats along the borders of the collapsing Reich. Throughout his time in Europe, Lembo maintained a running commentary of his experiences with Betty Craig, his fiancée and future wife. This extensive correspondence provides a unique eyewitness view of the life and work of a combat engineer under wartime conditions. As a squad (and later platoon) leader, Frank and his comrades cleared mines, conducted reconnaissance behind enemy lines, built bridges, and performed other tasks necessary to support the movement of the 317th, 318th, and 319th Infantry Regiments of the Blue Ridge Division—Patton’s workhorses, if not his glamour boys. Frank’s letters go beyond his direct combat experiences to include the camaraderie among the GIs, living conditions, weather, and the hijinks that helped keep the constant threat of death at bay. His letters also worked to reassure Betty with hopeful dreams for their future together. Including dozens of previously unpublished photographs, A Combat Engineer with Patton’s Army offers the rare perspective of what day-to-day warfare at the ground-level looked like in the European Theater through the eyes of one of the men spearheading the advance.
Author : Adam Pitluk
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306815270
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Damned to Eternity written by Adam Pitluk and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Scott was twenty-four years old when he was first convicted in 1994-and then again in 1998-of intentionally causing a catastrophe. His alleged crime was causing a levee to break, which flooded over 14,000 acres of farmland during the Great Midwestern Floods of '93. Though no one died, he was the first and only person in Missouri history convicted under this obscure 1979 law and is now serving a life sentence. He won't be eligible for his first parole hearing until 2023, when he will be fifty-five years old. In Damned to Eternity, Adam Pitluk contends that James Scott was a victim of a federal agency, a town, and law enforcement hell-bent on blaming him for something he maintains he didn't do.
Author : Paul K. Walker
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781410201737
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Engineers of Independence written by Paul K. Walker and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution. Lacking trained military engineers, the Americans relied heavily on foreign officers, mostly from France, for sorely needed technical assistance. Native Americans joined the foreign engineer officers to plan and carry out offensive and defensive operations, direct the erection of fortifications, map vital terrain, and lay out encampments. During the war Congress created the Corps of Engineers with three companies of engineer troops as well as a separate geographer's department to assist the engineers with mapping. Both General George Washington and Major General Louis Lebéque Duportail, his third and longest serving Chief Engineer, recognized the disadvantages of relying on foreign powers to fill the Army's crucial need for engineers. America, they contended, must train its own engineers for the future. Accordingly, at the war's end, they suggested maintaining a peacetime engineering establishment and creating a military academy. However, Congress rejected the proposals, and the Corps of Engineers and its companies of sappers and miners mustered out of service. Eleven years passed before Congress authorized a new establishment, the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.
Author : Patrick K. O'Donnell
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306815931
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book We Were One written by Patrick K. O'Donnell and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting first-hand account of the fierce battle for Fallujah during the Iraq War and the Marines who fought there--a story of brotherhood and sacrifice in a platoon of heroes Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, found itself in Fallujah, embroiled in some of the most intense house-to-house, hand-to-hand urban combat since World War II. In the city's bloody streets, they came face-to-face with the enemy-radical insurgents high on adrenaline, fighting to a martyr's death, and suicide bombers approaching from every corner. Award-winning author and historian Patrick O'Donnell stood shoulder to shoulder with this modern band of brothers as they marched and fought through the streets of Fallujah, and he stayed with them as the casualties mounted.
Author : Tim Menzies
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 0128042613
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering written by Tim Menzies and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering presents the best practices of seasoned data miners in software engineering. The idea for this book was created during the 2014 conference at Dagstuhl, an invitation-only gathering of leading computer scientists who meet to identify and discuss cutting-edge informatics topics. At the 2014 conference, the concept of how to transfer the knowledge of experts from seasoned software engineers and data scientists to newcomers in the field highlighted many discussions. While there are many books covering data mining and software engineering basics, they present only the fundamentals and lack the perspective that comes from real-world experience. This book offers unique insights into the wisdom of the community’s leaders gathered to share hard-won lessons from the trenches. Ideas are presented in digestible chapters designed to be applicable across many domains. Topics included cover data collection, data sharing, data mining, and how to utilize these techniques in successful software projects. Newcomers to software engineering data science will learn the tips and tricks of the trade, while more experienced data scientists will benefit from war stories that show what traps to avoid. Presents the wisdom of community experts, derived from a summit on software analytics Provides contributed chapters that share discrete ideas and technique from the trenches Covers top areas of concern, including mining security and social data, data visualization, and cloud-based data Presented in clear chapters designed to be applicable across many domains
Author : Thomas F. Army Jr.
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421419386
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Engineering Victory written by Thomas F. Army Jr. and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superior engineering skills among Union soldiers helped ensure victory in the Civil War. Engineering Victory brings a fresh approach to the question of why the North prevailed in the Civil War. Historian Thomas F. Army, Jr., identifies strength in engineering—not superior military strategy or industrial advantage—as the critical determining factor in the war’s outcome. Army finds that Union soldiers were able to apply scientific ingenuity and innovation to complex problems in a way that Confederate soldiers simply could not match. Skilled Free State engineers who were trained during the antebellum period benefited from basic educational reforms, the spread of informal educational practices, and a culture that encouraged learning and innovation. During the war, their rapid construction and repair of roads, railways, and bridges allowed Northern troops to pass quickly through the forbidding terrain of the South as retreating and maneuvering Confederates struggled to cut supply lines and stop the Yankees from pressing any advantage. By presenting detailed case studies from both theaters of the war, Army clearly demonstrates how the soldiers’ education, training, and talents spelled the difference between success and failure, victory and defeat. He also reveals massive logistical operations as critical in determining the war’s outcome.
Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Damned Engineers written by Janice Holt Giles and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Natasha McCarthy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780741529
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Engineering written by Natasha McCarthy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the human side to the discipline that is profoundly more than nuts and bolts Focusing on the impact of engineering on society and the world, McCarthy details the development of the discipline, explains what makes an engineering mind, and shows how every aspect of our lives has been engineered: from gadgets to our national infrastructure. Long considered tinkerers, problem solvers, and visionaries, engineers hold the keys to our real and virtual future.
Author : Ken Dupar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781704601342
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Scoundrels in Iraq written by Ken Dupar and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My morning run was almost over as the road curved through the pines towards the Post Gym. It dawned on me that I had a comprehensive understanding of the war, having been in Iraq in its beginning and again at the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In between I trained troops. I finally had a story worth telling. The compulsion to write down my goofy adventures overcame the inertia since college that limited my writing to post-it notes, Emails and greeting cards. Inspiration mixed with boredom and beer got me typing. Strangers in grocery stores thanked me for my service, and I avoided wearing my uniform in public. People hailed heroes at sporting events, placed Soldiers on pedestals. Mr. and Mrs. America didn't have a clue past what they saw on TV. The naiveté continues to piss me off fiercely. Heartache isn't the monopoly of Special Operators - the Men in Black. The petroleum specialist or mechanic halfway around the world feel the same loneliness amongst many. Going home can be harder than leaving. It doesn't matter what your job was downrange. But sexy and violent sells. What about scoundrels in the Army? It seems an ageless tale.I kept replaying my overseas adventures in my head while fighting dandelions in my yard or while driving the 175-mile weekly commute back to Fort McCoy. My Battle Buddy, Hank Molina would pester me during phone calls to write down our hilarious criminal acts from Operation Iraqi Freedom One (2003-04). Finally, I relented to the nagging pressure from my mind while remodeling the exterior of a Hotel in Charleston, West Virginia. The book outline took two nights and a two six packs, I mean three. Quickly, I became used to feeling that a portion of my work at night was basically crap. But it was fun. If I could make myself laugh, then that alone was worth the effort. Making myself cry because my writing was incredibly moving was sometimes due to alcohol, sometimes not. Resumption of a lifelong passion was very satisfying.Not a big fan of the fickle Uniform Code of Military Justice I worried about telling the world that I stole the most bad ass up-armored bulldozer ever built, supposedly. It seemed wise to retire before my entire confession was in print. But like we used to say, "what are they going to do to me? Send me to Iraq?" I'd love to go back, at least to Kurdistan.I was hesitant to make my voice so dominant, but my nephew, who helped me story board the various lines of effort (themes), convinced me that he wanted to know my opinions, observations, recollections, everything about the war from my point of view. Mike said he'd never be in Iraq so he wanted all I could give. Writing the story directly to him meant I could be my goofball self. Finding the ludicrous in Iraq was easy.Soldiers got hurt and reminders of loss came to the fore, like Jessica Lynch. Perhaps a cathartic project is all the book would amount to. But I didn't see any representation of ordinary Soldiers in Iraq in media that was even close to reality. Didn't women deploy? Where's their atta-girl?To change the tone while the story came back to the States, I eliminated all dialogue in Part Two "McCoy". It's a method, I guessed. Reverting back to using dialogue, brought vivaciousness to theater, I hoped. My battle buddy Hank, provided illustrations of BIAP (Baghdad International Airport), the huge city itself, plus the book design. I included a glossary of Military acronyms plus a listing of US Army rank structure for civilian types.Ultimately, I figured out the war. At least to my satisfaction. Eight years of my life was dedicated to the people of Iraq and my sisters and brothers at arms.Soldiers with addictions, personality disorders, a family crisis back home can profoundly affect a person's mental stability. I was guided through the hairiest of situations, especially during my first deployment. Tony wasn't just a hook or a crutch, gave me the courage to write this.
Author : Jodi Taylor
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 1472264274
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Just One Damned Thing After Another written by Jodi Taylor and published by Headline. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History' C. K. MCDONNELL 'A great mix of British properness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' ***** Meet St Mary's - a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets who hurtle their way around History. - If the whole of History lay before you, where would you go? When Dr Madeleine Maxwell is recruited by the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research, she discovers the historians there don't just study the past - they revisit it. But one wrong move and History will fight back - to the death. And Max soon discovers it's not just History she's fighting... BOOK 1 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIES For fans of Jasper Fforde, Doctor Who, Genevieve Cogman and Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club Readers love Jodi Taylor: 'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything... Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me' 'A great mix of British proper-ness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' 'Addictive. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it' 'Jodi Taylor has an imagination that gets me completely hooked' 'A tour de force'
Author : John Toland
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803299680
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Battle written by John Toland and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The perspective of 15 years, painstaking research, thousands of interviews, extensive analysis and evaluation, and the creative talent of John Toland [paint] the epic struggle on an immense canvas. . . . Toland writes with the authority of a man who was there. . . . He tastes the bitterness of defeat of those who surrendered and writes as if he had the benefit of the eyes and ears of soldiers and generals on the other side of the line. . . . If you could read only one book to understand generals and GIs and what their different wars were like this is the book."--Chicago Sunday Tribune "The author has devoted years to studying memoirs, interviewing veterans and consulting military documents, both German and American. He also has revisited the old battlefields in Belgium and Luxembourg. . . . Toland has told the whole story with dramatic realism. . . . It is a story of panic, terror and of high-hearted courage."--New York Times Book Review "For the first time in the growing literature of World War II, the inspiring story of the stubborn, lonely, dogged battle of the Americans locked in this tragic salient is told. . . . gripping . . . You cannot put it down once you start it."--San Francisco Chronicle
Author : Stephen Baxter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698142950
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Proxima written by Stephen Baxter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stephen Baxter has been heralded, with some merit, as Arthur C. Clarke’s literary heir, and Proxima certainly reinforces this accolade in spades.”—Concatenation Mankind’s future in this galaxy could be all but infinite. There are hundreds of billions of red dwarf stars, lasting trillions of years—and their planets can be habitable for humans. Such is the world of Proxima Centauri. And its promise could mean the never-ending existence of humanity. But first it must be colonized, and no one wants to be a settler. There is no glamor that accompanies it, nor is there the ease of becoming a citizen of an already-tamed world. There is only hardship...loneliness...emptiness, even as war brews in the solar system. But that’s where Yuri comes in. Because sometimes exploration isn’t voluntary. It must be coerced.
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ISBN 13 : 9781940804590
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Essayons written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
