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Never Forgotten: The Search for Israel's Lost Submarine Dakar מאת David W. Jourdan Just after midnight on January 25, 1968, the Israeli Navy's newly commissioned submarine Dakar transmitted her last communication. Disappearing beneath the waves, she went down in the Mediterranean Sea without a trace. Israel spent the next thirty-one years searching for the massive 287-foot submari...

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Atlantic Escorts: Ships, Weapons and Tactics in World War II מאת David K. Brown A warship designer and well-known author of a quartet of books on British warships, David K. Brown takes a detailed look at the Allied ships, weapons, and tactics that won the submarine war in the Atlantic in this handsomely illustrated book. Beginning with the lessons learned from World War I, the...

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British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War מאת Norman Friedman Noted historian Norman Friedman provides the first detailed study of the Royal Navy's destroyer from its predecessors from the 1880s to the 1930s, and its use in both World Wars. He shows how the Royal Navy developed the torpedo and its surface carrier, the destroyer, as both an offensive and defens...

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Sheriff of Ramadi מאת Dick Couch In this ground-breaking book, bestselling author and former U.S. Navy SEAL Dick Couch follows the SEAL Task Unit in Iraq s Anbar Province between 2005 and 2007, chronicling the unit s deployment in the Battle of Ramadi. Based on extensive interviews with Army, Navy, and Marine personnel who fought i...

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Sea Devils: Italian Naval Commandos in World War II (Classics of Naval Literature) מאת J. Valerio Borghese Though little known to the English-speaking world, the elite World War II Italian naval unit Decima Flottiglia MAS is considered by many to be the first modern naval commando squad. Assembled by Prince Junio Valerio Borghese at the beginning of the war, these frogmen were trained to fight undercover...

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Mister Roberts: A Novel (Classics of Naval Literature) מאת Thomas Heggen The novel, Mister Roberts, was an instant hit after being published in 1946 and was quickly adapted for the stage and screen. The title character, a Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade, defends his crew against the petty tyranny of the ship's commanding officer during World War II. Nearly all action takes ...

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Network-Centric Warfare: How Navies Learned to Fight Smarter Through Three World Wars מאת Norman Friedman Over the past decade, the United States has moved toward a new style of warfare, called network centric, that uses an almost real-time, shared picture of a military situation as the basis for operations. To explain what network-centric warfare is and how it works, defense analyst Norman Friedman use...

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Forgotten Weapon: U.S. Navy Airships and the U-Boat War מאת William F. Althoff Airships played an important but overlooked role in World War II, and with this study their contributions to antisubmarine warfare are examined in depth for the first time. Aviation historian William F. Althoff takes a close look at the U.S. naval airship s admirable wartime record. In analyzing its...

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On the Swing Shift: Building Liberty Ships in Savannah מאת Tony Cope During World War II eighty-eight of the almost three thousand Liberty ships built in America were launched in Savannah, Georgia. Without Liberty ships, the Battle of the Atlantic might have been lost. Few remember the Liberty ships today; fewer remember the shipyard or that the Southeastern Shipbuil...

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For Country and Corps: The Life of General Oliver P. Smith מאת Gail B. Shisler Oliver P. Smith fought at Peleliu and Okinawa and then commanded the 1st Marine Division in Korea during the assault at Inchon, the recapture of Seoul, and the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir. Called one of the twentieth century's great Marine leaders, Smith was known as an outstanding combat com...

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Takedown: The 3rd Infantry Division's Twenty-One Day Assault on Baghdad מאת Jim Lacey Over time the impression has grown that the 2003 invasion of Iraq met with little resistance and that, with few exceptions, the Iraqi army simply melted away. As this book clearly shows, nothing could be further from the truth. In its drive to capture Baghdad, the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division w...

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Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnaught Era מאת Norman Friedman For more than a half a century the big gun was the arbiter of naval power, but it was useless if it could not hit the target fast and hard enough to prevent the enemy doing the same. Because the naval gun platform was itself in motion, finding a 'firing solution' was a significant problem made all t...

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Air Commandos Against Japan: Allied Special Operations in World War II Burma מאת William Y'blood In 1943 the U.S. Army Air Forces created what would become the Air Commandos, a unit that marked a milestone in tactical operations in support of British ground forces invading Burma. William T. Y'Blood tells the story of how these daring American aviators trained and went into combat using unconven...

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The Restoration Warship: The Design, Construction and Career of a Third Rate of Charles II's Navy מאת Richard Endsor Superbly researched and expertly illustrated, this study offers one of the most detailed building and career histories of a ship ever written, the third rate of Charles II's Restoration Navy. The author focuses on HMS Lenox, a 44-gun two-decker third rate built in 1677 during the Anglo-Dutch Wars an...

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Bioterror in the 21st Century: Emerging Threats in a New Global Environment מאת Daniel M. Gerstein Daniel Gerstein draws on twenty-nine years of experience in the security and defense sectors to address the threat of bioterrorism in the twenty-first century. He warns that while the proliferation of knowledge and capabilities in the field of biotechnology offers ever-increasing opportunities for s...

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Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned (Blue Jacket Bks) מאת Rufus Phillips In The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam described Rufus Phillips as a man one could trust telling President Kennedy during the Vietnam War about the failures of the Strategic Hamlet Program, 'in itself a remarkable moment in the American bureaucracy, a moment of intellectual honesty.'...

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The Military Advantage, 2010 Edition: The Military.com Guide to Military and Veterans Benefits (Military Advantage: The Military.com Guide to Military &) מאת Terry Howell Following on the success of the previous editions, The Military Advantage, 2010 Edition is the annual reference guide providing the most current and complete guide to both active military and veterans benefits. Written by Terry Howell, benefits expert for Military.com, the guide is backed by the res...

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Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin's Extraordinary Adventure Aboard Fitzroy's Famous Survey Ship מאת James Taylor The bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of his ground-breaking publication On the Origin of Species will be celebrated throughout the world in 2009 with major exhibitions and a major motion picture about his life. Author James Taylor commemorates the annivers...

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Crossroads of Intervention: Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Lessons from Central America מאת Todd Greentree Much can be learned today about the nature of irregular warfare, the author argues, from the experiences of the United States and the other protagonists in Central America during the final decade of the Cold War. This strategy and policy analysis examines the origins, dynamics, and termination of th...

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New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Naval History Symposium מאת Maochun Yu Anyone with an interest in the importance, variety, and vitality of naval history should read this collection of academic papers. The Naval History Symposium held every two years at the U.S. Naval Academy attracts the best and brightest naval historians from around the world. This collection of thir...

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Death from the Heavens: A History of Strategic Bombing מאת Kenneth P. Werrell While other books have addressed various aspects of the subject, such as specific aircraft or warfare in specific wars, this book is the first to take a comprehensive look at strategic bombing from its beginnings to the present. Written by a historian, who is also an expert on the technology of bomb...

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Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese Navy (Blue Jacket Bks) מאת John T. Kuehn The author examines the influence of the General Board of the U.S. Navy as an agent of innovation in the years between the world wars. A formal body established by the secretary of the Navy, the General Board served as the organizational nexus for the interaction between fleet design and the naval l...

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Chief of Staff, Vol. 1: The Principal Officers Behind History's Great Commanders, Napoleonic Wars to World War I מאת Maj Gen David T. Zabecki AUS (Ret.) The two-volume Chief of Staff examines the history, development, and role of the military duty position of the chief of staff. Many books have studied history's great commanders and the art of command. None have focused exclusively on the chief of staff -- that key staff officer responsible f...

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Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 מאת D. M. Giangreco Hell To Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 is a comprehensive and compelling examination of the myriad complex issues that comprised the strategic plans for the American invasion of Japan. U.S. planning for the invasion and military occupation of Imperial Japan was begun in...

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Hitler's Navy: A Reference Guide to the Kriegsmarine, 1935-1945 מאת Jak P. Mallmann Showell Despite being heavily outnumbered by the navies of Great Britain and the United States, the German navy proved to be a serious adversary. Its major warships posed a constant threat to the Allied shipping lanes, and its U-boats in the North Atlantic threatened the very liberation of Europe. This impo...

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The Battle of the River Plate: A Grand Delusion (Campaign Chronicles) מאת Richard Woodman A distinguished British maritime writer offers a compelling reassessment of the British and German planning that led to the first and one of the most famous naval battles of World War II. The dramatic sea fight between the German picket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers

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Nimitz מאת E. B. Potter Called a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, first published in 1976 and now available in paperback for the first time, continues to be considered the best book ever written about Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. Highly r...

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Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice מאת Ronald J. Olive Jonathan Pollard, an intelligence analyst working in the U.S. Naval Investigative Service's Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, systematically stole highly sensitive secrets from almost every major intelligence agency in the United States. In just eighteen months he sold more than one million pages of clas...

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Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance מאת Ric Gillespie In the seventy years since the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan during a flight over the Central Pacific, their fate has remained one of history's most debated mysteries despite dozens of books offering solutions. This book is different. It draws on thousands of never be...

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A Terrorist's Call to Global Jihad: Deciphering Abu Musab al-Suri's Islamic Jihad Manifesto מאת Jim Lacey The U.S. counterintelligence community identifies Abu Musab al-Suri as the most important theorist of the global Islamic jihad and considers his manifesto to be the most important strategic document produced by al Qaida or any jihadi organization in more than a decade. But to Americans his 1,600-pag...

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Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan מאת Clay Blair Jr. With the content of an authoritative reference and the excitement of a thriller, this history of the U.S. submarine war is one of the most informative and entertaining books written on the Pacific campaign. The author, a respected journalist and World War II submariner himself, is credited with prov...

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We Shall Fight Them on the Beaches: Defying Napoleon and Hitler, 1805 and 1940 מאת Brian Lavery Brian Lavery, an established authority on the Napoleonic Wars and World War II, articulates the parallels and defining features of these tumultuous periods in our history. He looks at the style and competence of politicians and military commanders and the leadership and example of great men such as ...

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Fireship: The Terror Weapon of the Age of Sail מאת Peter Kirsch The fireship was the guided missile of the age of sail. Packed with incendiary (and sometimes explosive) material, it was aimed at its highly inflammable wooden target by volunteers who bailed out at the last moment. Although it often missed its target, the panic it caused among the crews--who gener...

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The Bridge at Dong Ha (Bluejacket Books) מאת John Grider Miller In his desperate attempt to blow up the bridge at Dong Ha and keep some 30,000 men and 200 tanks at bay, Ripley endured three hours of direct fire to rig some 500 pounds of explosives. Such a story of raw courage and personal resolve is rarely encountered....

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U.S. Marine Corps Aviation Since 1912 מאת Peter B. Mersky This heavily illustrated work is the only book to describe the entire history of the U.S. Marine Corps' air arm. With hundreds of rare photographs, this fourth edition represents a major redesign and update of the last edition, published more than a decade ago. Chapters include descriptions of early...

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French Battleships, 1922-1956 מאת John Jordan The French battleships of the Dunkerque and Richelieu classes were the most radical and influential battleship designs of the interwar period, and were coveted by the British, German and Italian navies following the Armistice of June 1940. Using a wealth of primary-source material, some of which has...

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Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy מאת Dennis J. Ringle

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The Canons of Jihad: Terrorists' Strategy for Defeating America מאת Jim Lacey Since the 9/11 attacks, scholars have struggled to help Westerners understand what motivates the jihadi movement. Noting that the best way to understand jihadists is to ignore statements they release to the West in favor of examining what they say to each other, Jim Lacey provides a definitive colle...

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Big Gun Monitors: Design, Construction and Operations, 1914-1945 מאת Ian Buxton Little more than huge gun mountings fitted on simple, self-propelled rafts, the Royal Navy's big gun monitors were designed and built rapidly to fulfill an urgent need for heavy shore bombardment during World War I. They were largely forgotten when this short-lived requirement was over until Buxton ...

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Warrior's Rage: The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting מאת Douglas Macgregor On 26 February 1991, cavalry troops of Cougar Squadron, the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm during Operation Desert Storm and caught Iraq's Republican Guard Corps in the open desert along the North-South grid line of a military map referred to as the 73 E...

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Embedded: A Marine Corps Adviser Inside the Iraqi Army מאת Wesley Gray In 2006, 1st Lt. Wesley Gray was deployed as a U.S. Marine Corps military adviser to an Iraqi Army battalion in the Haditha Triad. For 210 days, he lived and fought beside Iraqi soldiers in the most dangerous and austere province of western Iraq. Al-Anbar was filled with an insurgent population trau...

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We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War מאת Robert Schultz A sailor's extraordinary experiences on an American submarine in the Pacific are candidly reported in this eyewitness account of war from a torpedoman's perspective. Robert Hunt managed to survive twelve consecutive war patrols on the submarine USS Tambor. During the course of the war, Hunt was ever...

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Sea Service Medals: Military Awards and Decorations of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard מאת Fred L. Borch As the first and only complete history of all personal awards and decorations of the United States' three sea services, this book serves as a valuable resource of Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard awards. It also provides little-known historical information on the background and development of each...

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Flying Black Ponies: The Navy's Close Air Support Squadron in Vietnam מאת Kit Lavell The tragic, the comic, the terrifying, the poignant are all part of the story of the Black Pony pilots who distinguished themselves in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. Flying their turboprop Broncos down and dirty, low and slow, they killed more of the enemy and saved more allied lives with ...

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Commanding Lincoln's Navy: Union Naval Leadership During the Civil War מאת Stephen R. Taaffe The Union Navy played a vital role in winning the Civil War by blockading Confederate ports, cooperating with the Union Army in amphibious assaults, and controlling the Mississippi River and its tributaries. President Lincoln understood, however, that the Navy was not as important, militarily and po...

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Armchair Warriors: Private Citizens, Public Press, and the Rise of American Power (Blue Jacket Bks) מאת Joel R. Davidson This book is a history of public information and personal ideas about war and the military over the last century. It examines the interplay between popular media coverage of the nation's wars and the perceptions of ordinary Americans regarding military issues. Davidson studied Americans who produced...

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No Ordinary War: The Eventful Career of U-604 מאת Christian Prag U-604 may have looked like the hundreds of other Type VIIC U-boats built by the NaziKriegsmarine during World War II, but her six wartime patrols were far from ordinary. This book draws on the eyewitness testimony of survivors and the boat s war diary to weave a detailed tapestry of life and action ...

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Safeguarding the Nation: The Story of the Modern Royal Navy John Roberts

Safeguarding the Nation: The Story of the Modern Royal Navy מאת John Roberts All the many campaigns, operations, and deployments the Royal Navy has conducted around the world in the past fifty years are examined in this new history by John Roberts. With privileged access to secret and confidential Admiralty plans and commanding officers reports, the author provides a wealth ...

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The Military Advantage, 2009 Edition (Military Advantage: The Military.com Guide to Military &) מאת Christopher P. Michel The Military Advantage, 2009 Edition is the most current and complete guide to military and veteran s benefits. Written by Chris Michel, founder of Military Advantage, the nation's largest military and veteran membership organization and backed by the resources of Military.com, The Military Advantag...

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The Coast Guardsman's Manual George E. Krietemeyer

The Coast Guardsman's Manual מאת George E. Krietemeyer

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Nights in Pink Motel: An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq מאת Robert Earle Robert Earle presents the first historical account of the strategic process that sought to reverse the negative consequences of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. He offers an insider's details and insights into the early attempts to deal with the Iraqi insurgency and to develop Coalition counterinsur...

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Bound for Africa: Cold War Fight Along the Zambezi (Blue Jacket Bks) מאת Douglass H. Hubbard Jr. This is the story of the author's introduction to Africa at a time when much of the continent was in the grips of Cold War skirmishes between the free world and the communist forces of China and the Soviet Union. Frayed from three years of service during the Vietnam War, Hubbard traveled to Africa i...

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Lost Battalion of Tet: The Breakout of 2/12th Cavalry at Hue (Ausa) מאת Charles A. Krohn Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, this new paperback edition brings back into print a book that became an essential source for a 2006 study of the battle by the U.S. Army s Center of Military History. It takes a critical look at what went wrong in early 1968 during ...

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Guiding Lights: United States Naval Academy Monuments and Memorials מאת Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot In this easy-to-use reference, Naval Academy English professor Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot tells the stories behind sixty of the Academy's monuments and memorials. To personalize the memorials and the naval figures they honor, she has included letters, firsthand battle reports, Lucky Bag commentaries, a...

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Navy Strategic Culture: Why the Navy Thinks Differently מאת Roger W. Barnett To provide readers with insights into how naval officers think about the conduct of naval warfare, retired naval officer and Naval War College professor emeritus Roger Barnett opens the service for inspection. He attributes the unstructured, at-sea environment with powerfully conditioning an officer...

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Japan's Gestapo: Murder, Mayhem and Torture in Wartime Asia מאת Mark Felton Japan's military and secret police, the Kempetai, carried out a reign of terror against captive Asian nations, Allied POWs, and Japanese citizens throughout World War II. This history explains the origins, command structure, and role of the Kempetai apparatus, revealing their criminal and collaborat...

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Laughter in the Shadows: A CIA Memoir מאת Stuart Methven This memoir of a CIA operations officer captures the spirit of the early years of the Agency, a period sometimes described as its 'finest hours.' Using the alias 'St. Martin,' Stuart Methven served in the CIA from the 1950s through the 1970s. The book opens by describing the author's training in the...

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The Last Lincoln Conspirator: John Surratt's Flight from the Gallows מאת Andrew C. A. Jampoler With all that has already been written about President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, one of the little known stories is the case of the only successful conspirator, John Harrison Surratt, the son of Mary Surratt, who was hanged for her part in the crime. The Last Lincoln Conspirator is the true s...

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Shield of Dreams: Missile Defense and U.S.-Russian Nuclear Strategy מאת Stephen J. Cimbala This book examines the implications of deploying missile defenses by the United States and Russia within the current and next decades. Noting that U.S. plans to locate parts of the global ballistic missile defense system in eastern Europe contributed to a deterioration in U.S.-Russian relations, Cim...

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Capital in Flames: The American Attack on York, 1813 מאת Robert Malcomson As Canada's central depot and naval dockyard on the Great Lakes early in the War of 1812, the capital frontier town of York (present-day Toronto) was a prime target for American forces. In April 1813 a squadron of warships under U.S. Commodore Isaac Chauncey sailed up Lake Ontario and landed about 1...

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The German Invasion of Norway, April 1940 מאת Geirr H. Haarr This major new history documents the German invasion of Norway, focusing on the events at sea. The first operation in which the air force, army, and navy worked closely together, Operation Weserübung included the first dive-bomber attack to sink a major warship and the first carrier task-force op...

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Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973 מאת Stuart I. Rochester In this landmark study, two respected scholars provide a comprehensive, balanced, and authoritative account of what happened to the nearly eight hundred Americans captured during the Vietnam War. The authors were granted unprecedented access to previously unreleased materials and interviewed more t...

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Submarine: An Anthology of First-Hand Accounts of the War Under the Sea, 1939-1945 מאת Jean Hood This collection of oral histories is the first book to bring together eyewitness accounts from almost every navy that deployed submarines in World War II. With self-deprecating modesty, humor, pride, sadness, and sometimes bitterness, submariners from Great Britain, Germany, the United States, Italy...

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NATO's Gamble: Combining Diplomacy and Airpower in the Kosovo Crisis, 1998-1999 מאת Dag Henriksen In this revealing work, Dag Henriksen discloses the origins and content of NATO's strategic and conceptual thinking on how the use of force was to succeed politically in altering the behavior of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). The air campaign, known as Operation Allied Force, was the firs...

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Churchill Goes to War: Winston's Wartime Journeys מאת Brian Lavery One of Britain's top naval historians takes on a previously unexplored area of Churchill's wartime efforts in this much anticipated follow on to a successful study last year of Churchill's navy. Entirely original in his approach, Lavery considers the practicalities of transporting a prime minister ...

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Gunbird Driver: A Marine Huey Pilot's War in Vietnam (Blue Jacket Bks) מאת David A. Ballentine Ballentine recalls his experiences as a young pilot flying an armed UH-1E with Marine Observation Squadron Six in Vietnam. Like any good war memoir, parts of the book are deadly serious, while others are filled with thrilling, often humorous descriptions of squadron life during the early stages of t...

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Stranded in the Philippines: Professor Bell's Private War Against the Japanese מאת Scott A. Mills American missionaries Henry Roy Bell and his wife Edna had been teaching in the Philippines at Silliman University for twenty years when the Japanese invaded the islands after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This is the story of their guerilla war against the Japanese, from the time they took to the hil...

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Confronting the Chaos: A Rogue Military Historian Returns to Afghanistan מאת Sean M. Maloney While there is a vast amount of literature available on Iraqi operations, until now little has been written about the counterinsurgency and stabilization operations in Afghanistan. With this book, a Canadian military historian, who has observed field operations in Afghanistan since 2003, offers a cl...

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China Goes to Sea: Maritime Transformation in Comparative Historical Perspective מאת Andrew S. Erickson China's turn toward the sea is evident in its stunning rise in global shipbuilding markets, its expanding merchant marine, its wide reach of offshore energy exploration, its growing fishing fleet, and its increasingly modern navy. This comprehensive assessment of China's potential as a genuine marit...

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Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America and the Persecution of John S. Service מאת Lynne Joiner Honorable Survivor weaves John S. Service's extraordinary story into the fabric of a watershed moment in our history when World War II was ending, the Cold War was dawning, and the McCarthy era witch-hunters were stirring. The book reveals how people, policy, and politics mix to create the circumsta...

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Battleship Sailor (Bluejacket Books) מאת Theodore C. Mason

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Shield of Dreams: Missile Defenses and U.S.- Russian Nuclear Strategy מאת Stephen J. Cimbala This book examines the implications of deploying missile defenses by the United States and Russia within the current and next decades. Noting that U.S. plans to locate parts of the global ballistic missile defense system in eastern Europe contributed to a deterioration in U.S.-Russian relations, Cim...

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Faithful Warriors: A Combat Marine Remembers the Pacific War מאת Lt. Col. Dean Ladd Faithful Warriors is a memoir of World War II in the Pacific by Lt. Col. Dean Ladd, USMC (Ret.), a combat veteran of the 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. Written with award-winning author Steven Weingartner, Col. Ladd s book chronicles his experiences as a junior officer in some of the fier...

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Steel and Blood: South Vietnamese Armor and the War for Southeast Asia מאת Ha Mai Viet Viet presents a historically accurate and detailed account of the Vietnam War from the perspective of the South Vietnamese armor forces. Highly decorated for his valor and leadership of the armored units, the author spent ten years researchng this book. He interviewed hundreds of people, including a...

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Nelson's Battles: The Triumph of British Seapower מאת Nicholas Tracy From his first dramatic initiatives at the Battle of St. Vincent in 1797 to his last battle at Trafalgar in 1805, Horatio Nelson was a force to be reckoned with and a hero to his countrymen. This illuminating study of the battles that played such an important role in Napoleon's defeat also takes a c...

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South Pacific Destroyer: The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to Vella Gulf מאת Russell Sydnor Crenshaw Jr. Russell Crenshaw's riveting account of the savage night battle for the Solomon Islands in early 1943 offers readers a unique insider's perspective from the decks of one of the destroyers that bore the brunt of the struggle. Drawing on his experience as a gunnery officer in the USS Maury, his vivid, ...

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Silver Star: Navy and Marine Corps Gallantry in Iraq, Afghanistan and Other Conflicts (Blue Jacket Bks) מאת James E. Wise Jr. The authors have compiled this stirring collection of profiles in courage to honor the Sailors and Marines awarded the Silver Star by the U.S. Navy while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. It documents the extraordinary, award-winning actions of young American men in the war against global terrorism. ...

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Bioterror in the 21st Century: Emerging Threats in a New Global Environment מאת Daniel M. Gerstein Daniel Gerstein draws on twenty-nine years of experience in the security and defense sectors to address the threat of bioterrorism in the twenty-first century. He warns that while the proliferation of knowledge and capabilities in the field of biotechnology offers ever-increasing opportunities for s...

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A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy מאת Thomas J. Cutler Adopted by the U.S. Navy for issue to all new Sailors, A SailorÂ’s History of the U.S. Navy brings to life the events that have shaped and inspired the Navy of today while highlighting the roles of all Sailors—from seaman to admiral. Rather than focus entirely upon such naval icons as Stephen...

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Conway's The War at Sea in Photographs, 1939-1945 מאת Stuart Robertson Hailed as the most extensive photographic record of the naval side of World War II ever produced, this book is a must for anyone interested in naval history. From Robert Capa's images of the mayhem on Omaha Beach to the amateur photography of a serviceman on board a destroyer, the collection offers ...

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Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun מאת Bob Ward Written by veteran aerospace journalist Bob Ward, who spent years investigating his subject, this biography presents a revealing but even-handed portrait of the father of modern rocketry. As he chronicles Wernher von Braun's life, Ward explodes many myths and misconceptions about the controversial g...

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Presumed Lost: The Incredible Ordeal of America's Submarine POWs during the Pacific War מאת Stephen L. Moore When submarines failed to return to port from patrol, they were officially listed by the Navy as overdue and presumed lost. Loved ones were notified by the War Department that their siblings, spouses, and sons were missing in action and presumed lost. While 52 U.S. submarines were sunk during World ...

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NavCivGuide: A Handbook for Civilians in the United States Navy (Naval Institute Press Blue & Gold Professional Library) (U.S. Naval Institute Blue & Gold Professional Library) מאת Thomas J. Cutler Just as Thomas Cutler's The Bluejacket's Manual serves as the standard introduction and continuing reference guide for American sailors, this new handbook provides a basic reference guide for civilians working for the U.S. Navy. It will acquaint them with the Navy's world of acronyms, n-codes...

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Through the Wheat: The U.S. Marines in World War I מאת Joseph Alexander U.S. Marine participation in World War I is known as a defining moment in the Marine Corps' great history. It is a story of exceptional heroism and significant operational achievements, along with lessons learned the hard way. The Marines entered World War I as a small force of seagoing light infant...

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The Last Lincoln Conspirator: John Surratt's Flight from the Gallows מאת Andrew C. A. Jampoler Despite all that has been written about the April 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the story of John Surratt--the only conspirator who got away--remains untold and largely unknown. The capture and shooting of John Wilkes Booth twelve days after he shot Lincoln is a well-known and wel...

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Service Etiquette, 5th Edition מאת Cherlynn Conetsco This all-new 5th edition of the venerable Service Etiquette cements the guide's reputation as the definitive resource of military protocol. International protocol experts Cherlynn Conetsco and Anna Hart have totally rewritten the book, expanding its scope and intended readership from military office...

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Smoke Em If You Got Em - The Rise and Fall of the Military Cigarette Ration מאת Joel R. Bius