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1) Dark Harvest
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
For fans of World War Z, a chilling mystery, an ancient threat, and a race against time to save humanity-inspired by the true events of the Dyatlov Pass incident
Russia, 1959. Nine members of a Soviet mountaineering team on an ambitious expedition into the Ural Mountains are found dead, victims of massive and bizarre injuries. The Dyatlov Pass incident, as this grisly event came to be known, remains unexplained to this day.Iraq, 2019. Ex-soldier-turned-mercenary...
Author
Publisher
RAND Corporation, The
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Examines the deleterious effects of the U.S. failure to focus on protecting the Iraqi population for most of the military campaign in Iraq and analyzes the failure of a technologically driven counterinsurgency (COIN) approach. It outlines strategic considerations relative to COIN; presents an overview of the conflict in Iraq; describes implications for future operations; and offers recommendations to improve the U.S. capability to conduct COIN.
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In the wake of World War II, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and President Harry S. Truman established the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, to determine exactly how effectively strategic air power had been applied in the European theater and in the Pacific. The final study, consisting of over 330 separate reports and annexes, was staggering in its size and emphatic in its conclusions. As such it has for decades been used as an objective primary source...
Author
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The Apache of the American Southwest had long been in conflict with Mexican and U.S. soldiers and settlers by the time Geronimo began resisting these forces. The Apache warrior and his followers spent decades fighting to remain free and in control of their vast lands. The last stage of the long-running resistance began about 1877 when U.S. troops rounded up the Apache and moved them to a reservation. Unable to tolerate life there, Geronimo and his...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Anthony Tucker-Jones casts new light on the brutal fighting on the Eastern Front in World War II. Through his analysis of German front-line command assessments, he reveals the shocking destruction of German forces by the Soviets as early as 1942-and yet Hitler kept on fighting. Step by step, he describes how the German war machine fought to its very last against a relentless enemy. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic methods proliferated, because a large portion of the population was living in the frontier zone, and participated (or was forced to participate) in the network of the information flow. A quantitative analysis of sixteenth-century to seventeenth-century Hungarian ciphers (300 cipher keys and 1,600 partly or entirely...
Author
Publisher
Britannica Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"An informative overview of the American Revolution, this book covers pre-Revolution dissatisfaction, wartime struggles, and the aftermath and its special challenges. This volume helps readers understand the roots, results, and spirit of the American Revolution, but lets them make their own deductions about many lingering issues. Readers will also learn about some of the American Revolution's key players--the Founding Fathers--with a special section...
8) Line
Author
Publisher
Cool Gus Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
NY Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Bob Mayer Over four million books sold. Translated into over a dozen languages. Reviews for The Line: Mayer has crafted a military thriller in the tradition of John Grishams The Firm. Kirkus So convincing, that by the last page, readers may doubt the official version of the last 50 years. Publishers Weekly They killed Patton when he opposed them. Theyve cowered Presidents into going to war....
Author
Publisher
Cool Gus Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
NY Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Bob Mayer Over four million books sold. Translated into over a dozen languages. "Heart-racing, non-stop action that is difficult to put down."-Mystery News on Bodyguard of Lies "Thelma and Louise go clandestine."-Kirkus Reviews on Bodyguard of Lies "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." Winston Churchill Who polices the world of covert...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The study of war in all periods of prehistory and recorded history has always commanded the attention of historians, dramatists, poets and artists. The study of peace has, however, not yet gained a comparable readership, and the subject is attracting an increasing amount of scholarly research.↵ ↵ This volume presents the first work of academic research to tackle this imbalance head on. It looks at war and peace through the ages, from the Classical...
Author
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played --or failed to play--in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea. This is the story of the early battles of the southwest Pacific theatre--the Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Guadalcanal--presented as a single air campaign that began with the Japanese conquest of Rabaul in January 1942. It is a story of both Australian and American airmen...
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they're much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. Students will learn about Paul Revere, the minutemen, Valley Forge, and the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text,...
13) After Action
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Hosted by Air Force combat veteran Stacy Pearsall, After Action reveals the experiences of 21 veterans from across the country through candid conversations about what life is like before, during and after action. Pearsall’s own struggles to reconnect with society challenges her fellow veterans to probe deeper into their stories, helping to provide a better appreciation for those who’ve served.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this sensational exposé of British Intelligence's top informer in the upper ranks of the IRA, Richard O'Rawe delivers the most definitive account yet of the Troubles' most enigmatic, notorious and sinister figure, Freddie Scappaticci.
Codenamed Stakeknife, from the late 1970s through to his eventual exposure in 2003 he was the 'jewel in the crown' of a British infiltration system designed to cause mayhem and chaos in the IRA's military operations....
15) Final 19
Publisher
Buffalo 8 Productions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This is the horrific and heroic true story of Sgt. Dan Hefel who was of the final 19 POWs to come home from Vietnam. A small town Iowa kid from a large clan of a family, he enlisted following in his nine brother's footsteps. After contracting malaria serving as an infantry grunt he switched to sergeant gunner. What seemed like a prize detail, turned into a nightmare as his helicopter crashed into the mountainside in the dreaded A Shau Valley. Hefel...
16) Canine Soldiers
Publisher
Juno Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Explores the experience of going to war with a Military Working Dog, trained to find bombs before they can kill or maim soldiers, often at the expense of the dog's sanity.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When the investigative reporter Quentin Jones's story about covert military interrogation practices in the Desert War is buried, he is spurred to dig deeper, and he unravels a trail that leads to VIRTUE: cutting-edge technology that simulates reality during interrogation. As the shadowy labyrinths of governmental corruption unfurl and tighten around him, unnerving links to his protégé Bruce--who, like Joseph Conrad's Kurtz, disappeared into the...
Publisher
Juno Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1945 the bombing of Hiroshima showed the appalling destructive power of the atomic bomb. Mark Cousins’ bold new documentary looks at death in the atomic age, but life too. Using only archive film and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, ATOMIC shows us an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times: protest marches, Cold War sabre rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima, but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, and how X Rays...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After a Vegas wedding, she loses her memory but may still end up with a winning hand in this charming military romance from the USA Today–bestselling author.
2019 Rita Award Finalist
They have ninety days before the state of Texas will grant these strangers a divorce from their impetuous Vegas wedding. Captain Helen Pallas is certain she's not cut out for marriage. And Captain Tom Cross doesn't believe in love. Yet working in the same unit-and...
20) End Game
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"If you like Vince Flynn and Brad Thor, you'll love John Gilstrap."--Gayle Lynds"My favorite tough guy hero is back." --Jeffery Deaver"One of the finest thriller writers on the planet." --Tess GerritsenAssassins have eliminated a Chechen scientist who's been working as a double agent for the U.S. government. The feds know who to call: Jonathan Grave and his elite rescue team. Their mission: find the dead man's teenage son, who's on the run--and off...
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