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Author : Arthur J. C. Lavalle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Tale of Two Bridges and The Battle for the Skies Over North Vietnam written by Arthur J. C. Lavalle and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Major A. J. C. Lavalle
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782898921
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Tale Of Two Bridges And The Battle For The Skies Over North Vietnam [Illustrated Edition] written by Major A. J. C. Lavalle and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with over 30 maps, diagrams and photos This is a story of war. A parable of men and machines, of friend and foe. A drama of moves and countermoves, played out in the skies over North Vietnam and having for its backdrop two bridges - the majestic Paul Doumer and the infamous bridge at Thanh Hoa. These bridges know well the script of war. The silent contrails high in the blue, the growing dialogue of anti-aircraft fire, the scream of engines, the thunder of bombs, all building to a crescendo. Then subsiding, only to start again in another act on another day. An old play that reopens regularly with new actors - and therein lies our tale. The curtain went up at the Thanh Hoa Bridge in April 1965, and, as the Vietnam drama unfolded, many new players made their acting debut. Fighters named “Thunderchief” and “Phantom,” missiles known as SAMs and SHRIKEs, bombs called “Walleye” and “Smart,” and the credits go on. Wild Weasel, Jolly Green, Young Tiger, and MIG Cap - all starred in our long running play as did such names as Carolina Moon and Flaming Dart. Names that flashed brightly across the stage and then were gone. Actors in a historical play that has now passed into history - leaving us to tell THE TALE OF TWO BRIDGES.
Author : Stephen Mikesell
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874174678
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book A Tale of Two Bridges written by Stephen Mikesell and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of Two Bridges is a history of two versions of the San Francisco—Oakland Bay Bridge: the original bridge built in 1936 and a replacement for the eastern half of the bridge finished in 2013. The 1936 bridge revolutionized transportation in the Bay Area and profoundly influenced settlement patterns in the region. It was also a remarkable feat of engineering. In the 1950s the American Society of Civil Engineers adopted a list of the “Seven Engineering Wonders” of the United States. The 1936 structure was the only bridge on the list, besting even the more famous Golden Gate Bridge. One of its greatest achievements was that it was built on time (in less than three years) and came in under budget. Mikesell explores in fascinating detail how the bridge was designed by a collection of the best-known engineers in the country as well as the heroic story of its construction by largely unskilled laborers from California, joined by highly skilled steel workers. By contrast, the East Span replacement, which was planned between 1989 and 1998, and built between 1998 and 2013, fell victim to cost overruns in the billions of dollars, was a decade behind schedule, and suffered from structural problems that has made it a perpetual maintenance nightmare. This is narrative history in its purest form. Mikesell excels at explaining highly technical engineering issues in language that can be understood and appreciated by general readers. Here is the story of two very important bridges, which provides a fair but uncompromising analysis of why one bridge succeeded and the other did not.
Author : Michael R.E. Adams
Publisher : Enchanted Cipher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Tree Between Two Bridges (A Pact with Demons, Story #4) written by Michael R.E. Adams and published by Enchanted Cipher. This book was released on with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Maddox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (163 download)
Download or read book The Tale of the Two Bridges written by Barbara Maddox and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor Colaio
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781439214480
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Between Two Bridges written by Victor Colaio and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a personal story of living during a period of history in a New York City neighborhood that witnessed hardship,sacrifice,tragedy,discipline and an abundance of genuine happiness.
Author : Michael R.E. Adams
Publisher : Enchanted Cipher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spritely Ways of Dark Familiars (A Pact with Demons, Vol. 1) written by Michael R.E. Adams and published by Enchanted Cipher. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almon Campbell encounters a cat. The feline accuses his mother of a heinous crime. Justice must be served. And the cat demands only one payment… Almon’s soul. Almon’s first mystery plummets him down the rabbit hole. A world where demons lurk. But something beautiful also awaits. Should he risk it all? Cozy mysteries in a paranormal world. A Pact with Demons investigates uncanny tales with heart and danger. In a world where cats talk. And darkness lurks everywhere. Why do lost hearts sell their souls to demons?
Author : United States. Air Force. Office of Air Force History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Publications written by United States. Air Force. Office of Air Force History and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Lamberg
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823279219
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Neighborhood Success Stories written by Carol Lamberg and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high cost of building affordable housing in New York, and cities like it, has long been a topic of urgent debate. Yet despite its paramount importance and the endless work of public and private groups to find ways to provide it, affordable housing continues to be an elusive commodity in New York City—and increasingly so in our current economic and political climate. In a timely, captivating memoir, Carol Lamberg weighs in on this vital issue with the lessons she learned and the successes she won while working with the Settlement Housing Fund, where she was executive director from 1983 until 2014. Lamberg provides a unique perspective on the great changes that have swept the housing arena since the curtailment of the welfare state in the 1970s, and spells out what is needed to address today’s housing problems. In a tradition of “big city” social work memoirs stretching back to Jane Addams, Lamberg reflects on the social purpose, vision, and practical challenges of the projects she’s been involved in, while vividly capturing the life and times of those who engaged in the creation and maintenance of housing and those who have benefited from it. Using a wealth of interviews with managers and residents alike, alongside the author’s firsthand experiences, this book depicts examples of successful community development between 1975 and 1997 in the Bronx and on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In the “West Bronx Story,” Lamberg details the painful but ultimately exhilarating development of eighteen buildings that comprise New Settlement Apartments—a dramatic transformation of a devastated neighborhood into a thriving community. In “A Tale of Two Bridges,” the author depicts a different path to success, along with its particular challenges. The redevelopment of this area on the Lower East Side involved six different Federal housing programs and consisted of six residential sites, a running track, and a large scale supermarket. To this day, forty years later, all the buildings remain strong. With Neighborhood Success Stories, Lamberg offers a roadmap to making affordable housing a reality with the key ingredients of dogged persistence, group efforts, and creative coalition building. Her powerful memoir provides hope and practical encouragement in times that are more challenging than ever.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gulf War Air Power Survey: Operations and effects and effectiveness written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Darrell Sherwood
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081479842X
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Afterburner written by John Darrell Sherwood and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-05-31 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: View the Table of Contents. Read the Prologue. "An exceptionally well written, well documented, fast-moving account."—Washington Times "This is a book written on multiple levels, and well worth reading."—M.S. Naval Institute Proceedings "This book is a welcome addition to the history of naval aviation and fills a much-needed void by detailing the later years of the Vietnam naval air campaign."—Sea Power "Makes for lively, vivid, and informative reading. I would include it...on my list of the top ten books on the air war in Vietnam." —Air Power History "John Sherwood has done a fine job in giving us a first-rate account of a confusing but critically important period in Naval Aviation history."—The Hook "As a collection of individual studies and 'war stories,' Afterburner should find an interested readership." —Military History "With a 45-degree dive angle set, 450 knots of airspeed building, and my altimeter unwinding like crazy, my scan went rapidly between the bombsight and flight instruments. . . . When I looked over my shoulder at the target, I could see where the bombs had hit and exploded." Through stories like this diary entry of a fighter pilot, John Darrell Sherwood brings forth the personal accounts of 21 naval and marine aviators in this chronicle of the second half of the Navy's air war over Vietnam. Despite spending over 200 billion dollars and dropping almost 8 million tons of bombs on Southeast Asia, the U.S. was unable to score a definitive victory in the air war. Afterburner takes us inside the day-to-day operations of the air war, particularly during the most intense year of the campaign: 1972. During that year, North Vietnam launched the first large-scale conventional attacks on strongholds in South Vietnam. Sherwood shows how the U.S. fought back with some of the most innovative air campaigns in its history, including Nixon's Linebacker bombings and the Navy's mining operation in Haiphong Harbor. From duels with enemy MiGs to the experiences of Commander C. Ronald Polfer, who became the voice of reason among American POWs in the Hanoi Hilton's Room 5, the detailed stories in Afterburner make these historical events come to life. Sherwood compiles and analyzes an incredible breadth of information about the details of each of the Navy's operations during the air war and then relates the key parts of the narrative through the eyes of an pilot or flight officer involved in each action. Through tales of courage and fear, triumph and horror, Sherwood reveals the lives of common aircrews who performed extraordinary service. Their experiences illustrate the personal nature of war—even from the air—and show that the air war in Vietnam may have begun as a slow burn, but by 1972, it was more intense than an F-4 afterburner.
Author : Joan Marans Dim
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823253074
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book New York's Golden Age of Bridges written by Joan Marans Dim and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York’s Golden Age of Bridges, artist Antonio Masi teams up with writer and New York City historian Joan Marans Dim to offer a multidimensional exploration of New York City’s nine major bridges, their artistic and cultural underpinnings, and their impact worldwide. The tale of New York City’s bridges begins in 1883, when the Brooklyn Bridge rose majestically over the East River, signaling the start of America’s “Golden Age” of bridge building. The Williamsburg followed in 1903, the Queensboro (renamed the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge) and the Manhattan in 1909, the George Washington in 1931, the Triborough (renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge) in 1936, the Bronx-Whitestone in 1939, the Throgs Neck in 1961, and the Verrazano-Narrows in 1964. Each of these classic bridges has its own story, and the book’s paintings show the majesty and artistry, while the essays fill in the fascinating details of its social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental history. America’s great bridges, built almost entirely by immigrant engineers, architects, and laborers, have come to symbolize not only labor and ingenuity but also bravery and sacrifice. The building of each bridge took a human toll. The Brooklyn Bridge’s designer and chief engineer, John A. Roebling, himself died in the service of bridge building. But beyond those stories is another narrative—one that encompasses the dreams and ambitions of a city, and eventually a nation. At this moment in Asia and Europe many modern, largescale, long-span suspension bridges are being built. They are the progeny of New York City’s Golden Age bridges. This book comes along at the perfect moment to place these great public projects into their historical and artistic contexts and to inform and delight artists, engineers, historians, architects, and city planners. In addition to the historical and artistic perspectives, New York’s Golden Age of Bridges explores the inestimable connections that bridges foster, and reveals the extraordinary impact of the nine Golden Age bridges on the city, the nation, and the world.
Author : David McFetrich
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526794497
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book An Encyclopaedia of World Bridges written by David McFetrich and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridges are one of the most important artefacts constructed by man, the structures having had an incalculable effect on the development of trade and civilisation throughout the world. Their construction has led to continuing advances in civil engineering technology, leading to bigger spans and the use of new materials. Their failures, too, whether from an inadequate understanding of engineering principles or as a result of natural catastrophes or warfare, have often caused immense hardship as a result of lost lives or broken communications. In this book, a sister publication to his earlier An Encyclopaedia of British Bridges (Pen & Sword 2019), David McFetrich gives brief descriptions of some 1200 bridges from more than 170 countries around the world. They represent a wide range of different types of structure (such as beam, cantilever, stayed and suspension bridges). Although some of the pictures are of extremely well-known structures, many are not so widely recognisable and a separate section of the book includes more than seventy lists of bridges with distinctly unusual characteristics in their design, usage and history.
Author : Thomas A. Keaney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Gulf War Air Power Survey written by Thomas A. Keaney and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence H. Suid
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813190181
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Guts & Glory written by Lawrence H. Suid and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2002-06-14 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Music/American Music is the first book to investigate the facets of American music from the South and the many popular forms that emerged from it. In this substantially revised and updated edition, Bill C. Malone and David Stricklin bring this classic work into the twenty-first century, including new material on recent phenomena such as the huge success of the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the renewed popularity of Southern music, as well as important new artists Lucinda Williams, Alejandro Escovedo, and the Dixie Chicks, among others. Extensive bibliographic notes and a new suggested listening guide complete this essential study.
Author : Donald Charrett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000505707
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Contracts for Construction and Engineering Projects written by Donald Charrett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contracts for Construction and Engineering Projects provides unique and invaluable guidance on the role of contracts in construction and engineering projects. The work explores various aspects of the intersection of contracts and construction projects involving the work of engineers and other professionals engaged in construction, whether as project managers, designers, constructors, contract administrators, schedulers, claims consultants, forensic engineers or expert witnesses. Compiling papers written and edited by the author, refined and expanded with additional chapters in this new edition, this book draws together a lifetime of lessons learned in these fields and covers the topics a practising professional might encounter in construction and engineering projects, developed in bite-sized chunks. The chapters are divided into five key parts: 1. The engineer and the contract 2. The project and the contract 3. Avoidance and resolution of disputes 4. Forensic engineers and expert witnesses, and 5. International construction contracts. The inclusion of numerous case studies to illustrate the importance of getting the contract right before it is entered into – and the consequences that may ensue if this is not done – makes this book essential reading for professionals practising in any area of design, construction, contract administration, preparation of claims or expert evidence, as well as construction lawyers who interact with construction professionals.
Author : James William Gibson
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802196810
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Perfect War written by James William Gibson and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Powerfully and persuasively . . . Gibson tells us why we were in Vietnam . . . a work of daring brilliance—an eye-opening chronicle of waste and self-delusion.” —Robert Olen Butler In this groundbreaking book, James William Gibson shatters the misled assumptions behind both liberal and conservative explanations for America’s failure in Vietnam. Gibson shows how American government and military officials developed a disturbingly limited concept of war—what he calls “technowar”—in which all efforts were focused on maximizing the enemy’s body count, regardless of the means. Consumed by a blind faith in the technology of destruction, American leaders failed to take into account their enemy’s highly effective guerrilla tactics. Indeed, technowar proved woefully inapplicable to the actual political and military strategies used by the Vietnamese, and Gibson reveals how US officials consistently falsified military records to preserve the illusion that their approach would prevail. Gibson was one of the first historians to question the fundamental assumptions behind American policy, and The Perfect War is a brilliant reassessment of the war—now republished with a new introduction by the author. “This book towers above all that has been written to date on Vietnam.” —LA Weekly
