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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0760321558ISBN 13: 9780760321553
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In the early afternoon of September 12, 1944, an American patrol entered Nazi Germany southwest of the ancient city of Aachen. Three months after the landing at Normandy, the Allies were finally within reach of the enemy on his home turf. Among the troops there was even talk of getting home for Christmas. What followed, though, was one of the most grueling campaigns of the war?the nearly six-month-long battle fully recounted for the first time in this powerful work. Combining stirring narrative and meticulous historical detail, The Longest Battle provides a complete and compelling account of what happened after the first breach of the Third Reich by Allied ground combat forces: of the troops terrible struggle across the Siegfried Line, Hitlers vaunted West Wall, through the benighted Hurtgen Forest, and across the Roer. The strategic decisions and setbacks, the incremental advances, and catastrophic losses that marked this still-controversial but critically important battle unfold in all their historical, military, and human significance in Harry Yeides book?finally filling a gap in our understanding of World War II.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0879388668ISBN 13: 9780879388669
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 0. Vivid vintage photos of the bright and colorful markings of the great propeller-driven airliners, from the Ford Tri-Motors of the 30s to the Lockheed Super Constellations of the 50s. Full-color coverage of all the great names: The Ford Tri-Motor, Lockheed Vega, Stinson Model A, DC-2-3/4 and 6, Convairs, Constellations, and more.
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Published by Brand: Zenith City Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 188731735XISBN 13: 9781887317351
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 4th. On June 27, 1977, an intruder entered Glensheen, the stately Duluth manor built along the Lake Superior shore. Before leaving with a basketful of stolen jewelry, the intruder used a satin pillow to smother Elisabeth Congdon and Velma Pietila. Together with former Duluth News-Tribune crime reporter Gail Feichtinger, Duluth Police Detective Gary Waller and St. Louis County Prosecutor John DeSanto the men who investigated and prosecuted Marjorie and her husband, Roger Caldwell bring readers behind the scenes of the Minnesota s most infamous double murder. Feichtinger then reaches beyond the Glensheen killings to follow Marjorie through her convictions for arson and presents new evidence that suggests that Marjorie may have gotten away with murder five times.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2009
ISBN 10: 0760337136ISBN 13: 9780760337134
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In the aftermath of defeat in Vietnam, the American military cast about for answers--and, bizarrely, settled upon a view of warfare promulgated by a Prussian general in the 1830s, Carl von Clausewitz. This doctrine was utterly inappropriate to the wars the U.S. faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. It led the U.S. Army to abandon its time-honored methods of offensive war--which had guided America to success from the early Indian campaigns all the way through the Second World War--in favor of a military philosophy derived from the dynastic campaigns of Napoleon and Frederick the Great. It should come as no surprise, then, that the military's conceptualization of modern offensive war, as well as its execution, has failed in every real-life test of our day.This book reveals the failings of the U.S. Army in its adoption of a postmodern Full Spectrum Operations" doctrine, which codifies Clauswitzian thinking. Such an approach, the author contends, leaves the military without the doctrine, training base, or force structure necessary to win offensive wars in our time. Instead, the author suggests, the army should adopt a new doctrinal framework based on an analysis of the historical record and previously successful American methods of war. A clear and persuasive critique of current operative ideas about warfare, The Clausewitz Delusion lays out a new explanation of victory in war, based on an analysis of wartime casualties and post-conflict governance. It is a book of critical importance to policymakers, statesmen, and military strategists at every level.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0760320799ISBN 13: 9780760320792
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First American Edition. During the evening of October 4, 1980, in the Pacific Ocean nearly 330 miles from Valdez, Alaska, a fire engulfed the engine room of the Prinsendam, a Holland America cruise ship carrying 320 passengers, most of them elderly. As the fire raged out of control, the ships captain faced the most dire decision of his career: Could he give the order to abandon ship in the face of a typhoon bearing down on the Prinsendams position? The story of this disaster at sea, and of the near-miraculous rescue that ensued, is recounted in heart-stopping detail in this powerful book. Drawing on extensive interviews with passengers, crew, and coast guardsmen, combined with exhaustive research, Saving the Prinsendam brings to life the last moments of the doomed cruise ship and the heroic efforts of the Coast Guardsmen who managed to transport every passenger to safety before the Prinsendam rolled and slid bow-first to the bottom on October 11. Told in the hour-by-hour style of Walter Lord's Titanic classic: A Night to Remember, the book recreates the drama of one of the most memorableand successfulrescue operations ever to be conducted at sea.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0760321191ISBN 13: 9780760321195
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The most decorated solder in World War I was not Sergeant Alvin York, as many believe, but a stretcher bearer named Charles Denver Barger. And Barger is just one of the legion of military medical personnel whose lifesaving feats are remembered in this inspiring volume. A tribute to those who tend the sick and wounded under the toughest conditions, Doc is made up of the sometimes humorous, often harrowing, and always heartfelt memoirs of quick-thinking medics and heroic nurses, of surgeons and physicians equipped with only the tools of mercy, performing acts of great courage.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0760302766ISBN 13: 9780760302767
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. Up-to-date information on attack and ballistic missile subs, torpedos, sonar rooms, attack centers, training facilities, subs in dry dock and more! Learn of their roles and missions in war and in peace, current force levels, life aboard ship, sub design and classifications, technology and weaponry. Find out whats planned for the 21st century!.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0760305382ISBN 13: 9780760305386
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A fascinating and detailed account of every aspect of the Waffen-SS's war on the Eastern Front: its battles, its organization, tactics, and equipment. Read what it was like to take part in Operation 'Barbarossa', the opening assault against Russia in the summer of 1941; the clash of massed armor at Kursk; and other epic encounters of war in the East. Ailsby also provides detailed insight into how Waffen-SS individuals and units met and often mastered their Red Army adversaries.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0760322015ISBN 13: 9780760322017
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The 82nd Airborne Division - known as the "All-Americans" - parachuted into history as Americas first airborne division to see combat. Always at the forefront of some of the heaviest fighting in WWII, the 82nd helped spearhead the Allied drive to victory. This book is the first to tell the full combat history of these gallant All-Americans -- from their first perilous night drop into Sicily to their acclaimed victory parade up New York's 5th Avenue in 1946. Currently, the 82nd remains the only active American parachute division. The 82nd Airborne Division ? dubbed the All-Americans during WWI, when Sgt. Alvin York was among its soldiers ? parachuted into history on July, 9, 1943, as the opening salvo in Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily. This book, the first to tell the full story of the 82nd ? Americas first airborne division to see combat, and the only American parachute division still active today ? follows these all-Americans from their first perilous drop to their victory parade up 5th Avenue in January 1946. From the shore of Sicily to the beaches of Normandy, from the Rhine to the Elbe to the German surrender and the U.S. occupation of Berlin, this is military history at its best, often told in the words of the soldiers themselves. It is a fitting ? and long overdue ? tribute to the valorous service of one of Americas most celebrated fighting divisions.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0760320977ISBN 13: 9780760320976
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. FROM THE HALLS OF MONTEZUMA to the shores of Tripoli, as the Marine Corps Hymn relates, and more recently in the epic battle of the Chosin Reservoir in Korea and the siege of Hue City in Vietnam, Americas soldiers of the sea have fought their countrys baffles around the world for more than two centuries. From Belleau Wood in the Great War to the killing fields of Iraq, the fighting Leathernecks have been known for their valorous spirittheir ability to persevere in the face of nearly any odds.The U.S. Marines earned their reputation of being the First to Fight on the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal, when on August 7, 1942, the 1st Marine Division stormed ashore to begin one of the most difficult and brutal campaigns of recent military history. This was just the first of an unbroken string of a dozen island victories across the Pacific: up the Solomons from Guadalcanal, on westward in 1943 from Tarawa in the central Pacific, and the climactic Western Pacific campaigns of 1945 on Iwo Jima and Okinawa.Pacific Warriors covers all of the legendary Marine battles of the Pacific War in a tribute to the men who led the way against Japan. It also provides the reader with a look at the prewar Marine Corps and its remarkable base force to a full six divisions along with a modern Marine Corps air force. The rise and development of modern amphibious doctrine and training going back to the end of the nineteenth century are an important part of the story and receive detailed coverage.Combined with nearly three hundred photographsmany never before publishedand detailed captions, plus seventeen maps commissioned especially for this volume, the expert text by critically acclaimed military historian Eric Hammel will serve as a lasting tribute to the United States Marines of World War II.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0760324573ISBN 13: 9780760324578
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The Mafia is one of the most feared and powerful criminal organizations the world has ever known. It was also, briefly during World War II, Americas ally--a fact that had a profound effect on the fortunes of the Fascists, and on those of the Mafia, whom Mussolini had effectively crushed.This book brings to light a little-known chapter in the history of World War II, and of organized crime. It tells how Cesare Mori, deputized by Mussolini to "cauterize the sore of crime in Italy," waged all-out war on the Mafia in the name of fascism; and how the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 (Operation Husky) gave the Mafia an opening to regain its strength--and its hold on political power--in the vacuum created by the Fascists defeat.A provocative account of how the rise and ultimate defeat of fascism in Italy affected the worlds largest and most notorious criminal organization, Mafia Allies also illuminates a dark truth about the unexpected long-term consequences of wartime alliances of convenience.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0760326649ISBN 13: 9780760326640
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hailing from the big cities and small towns of America, these young men came together to serve their country and the greater good. Preparing for war, they came of age in what arguably became the best parachute infantry regiment to descend upon a Europe beset by World War II. They were the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division (the All Americans), and their story is told here by their official historian Phil Nordyke. Drawing on interviews with surviving veterans and oral history recordings as well as official archives and unpublished written accounts from over 300 veterans of the 505th PIR and their supporting units, Nordyke brings the history of the regiment to life, conveying with remarkable immediacy and power what it was like to be there: to liberate the first town in France; to spearhead the invasion of Sicily in the first American mass combat jump to fight at the forefront of six major campaigns (Sicily, Naples-Foggia, Normandy, Rhineland, Ardennes, and Central Germany); to jump into Normandy as the only U.S. parachute regiment with combat experience. This is history as it was lived by the men of the 505th, from their pre-war coming of age in the regiment, through the end of World War II, when they marched in the Victory Parade up Fifth Avenue in New York, to the post-war legacy of having been part of an elite parachute regiment with a record unsurpassed in the annals of combat.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 0760337535ISBN 13: 9780760337530
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In late November 2006 the whole world was shaken by a ruthless assassination in London of former lieutenant colonel of the FSB (the Russian security service and a successor to the KGB) and British citizen Alexander Litvinenko. This has been the most notorious crime in the past 30 years committed by Russian intelligence on foreign soil. Former Russian military intelligence officer and international expert in special operations Boris Volodarsky shows how the Russian poisoning operations started with Lenin and his Cheka, the predecessor of the KGB with intelligence operatives creating poisons and delivery methods as well as planning and carrying out poisoning operations all over the world in order to eliminate the enemies of the Kremlin.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0760332118ISBN 13: 9780760332115
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book Description The Marine Corps came into being with the nation it serves, in 1775--and has been a proud defender of the American ideal ever since. With photographs of historic missions and shots of the Corps in action today, this illustrated volume gives readers a feel for what it means--and has meant--to be a Marine. Here, over time and wherever duty calls, are the select few who make up the tightly knit fighting force known for its lightning speed, overwhelming power, and truly heroic sense of duty. About the Author Chester G. Hearn, an American military veteran, has written several books on U.S. military and naval history, three of which have been main selections of the History Book Club. A graduate of Allegheny College, he is a full-time writer who lives in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0760309604ISBN 13: 9780760309605
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This lively and informative guide will help everyone from casual doodlers to artists with professional aspirations draw World War I biplanes, World War II fighters and bombers and modern jet aircraft. Aviation author Charlie Cooper has assembled the work and knowledge of numerous aviation artists in a series of step-by-step instructions and illustrations. After laying a foundation of basic drawing concepts like perspective, proportion, light sources, ellipses and axes, the book proceeds to specific techniques for accurately rendering propellers, movement, color, cockpits, pilots and cutaways. Depicted in both color and black-and-white, this illustrated instructional also features a brief history of airplane design.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0760308527ISBN 13: 9780760308523
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. When it comes to stealth technologies, Lockheed Martin has unarguably outpaced its peers in design and deployment. This in-depth look at the development of Lockheed's stealth program explains how Skunkworks designers and engineers have minimized and even eliminated radar, thermal, acoustic, and radar signatures in the F-117 Nighthawk, F-22 Raptor, and X-35 Joint Strike Fighter contender. Illustrated with photos from Lockheed archives and private collections, the story begins with the origins of stealth in 1974 and continues through the current service and battle records of the F-117 and F-22, as well as the design and testing of X-35 prototypes vying with Boeing's X-32 for the Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter contract. Respected aviation author Bill Sweetman also explains the technologies and design elements that allow an aircraft to evade detection, and looks ahead to the future of stealth technology in projects like the Comanche helicopter and Sea Shadow warship.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0760333084ISBN 13: 9780760333082
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. From its beginnings in 1907 as the Aeronautical Division of U.S. Armys Signal Corps, which consisted of one officer and two enlisted men, the United States Air Force has grown to become the foremost aerial armed force in the world. Although they had to fly French and British planes as the fledgling army aeronautical bureaucracy failed to procure any combat-worthy American aircraft, which arguably did not exist, American aviators performed valiantly in World War I with intrepid pilots of the such as Eddie Rickenbacker and Frank Luke leading the way.Between the wars, all of aviation, commercial and military around the world grew by leaps and bounds as the numbers of aircraft in service and their capabilities tremendously increased. Although the Army Air Corps, as it was known at the time, was no better prepared for World War II than the rest of the army, it had developed a highly professional corps of experienced officers who would be able to take advantage of the latest American aircraft technology such as the B-17 Flying Fortress and the P-51 Mustang.With the end of the war and the creation of an independent armed force in 1947, the United States Air Force leapt into the jet age with such icons as the F-86 Sabre and the remarkable B-52 Stratofortress, which "soldiers" on today more than fifty years after going into service in 1955 and with the youngest of the 744 plane production run being forty years old, having been built in 1962.Air Force covers the entire history of the U.S. Air Force and its development from its beginnings early in the last century to becoming the worlds largest, most powerful, and most versatile air-combat force.Special attention is paid to the air forces recent, post-Vietnam history, and an entire chapter is devoted to Americas air force of the future.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0760321868ISBN 13: 9780760321867
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The German campaigns in Poland and France in 1939 and 1940 ushered in a new era in warfare. The theory of blitzkrieg, lightning war, developed by Guderian and other German generals was put into devastating practice. Blitzkrieg is an oral history of those successful early Wehrmacht campaigns. The accounts of these soldiers give a unique, inside look at the workings of the Nazi war machine at the height of its success. The original book Panzers in Action was published in Germany during the war and has never before been translated into English. Until now.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0760320950ISBN 13: 9780760320952
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. During World War II, one of the most vital, dangerous and deadly operations in the war with Japan was the U.S. aerial campaign on Japanese ships. Courageous U.S. Navy, Army Air Corps and Marine crews struck at Japanese ships in an attempt to deplete supplies and sink firepower. All too often the men who risked their lives lost them on these missions in unfriendly skies. This breakthrough book contains many stunning photos that have never before been published. There are numerous superb, high-resolution photos of aircraft vs. ship combat and the aftermath of these battles. This is an important aspect of the war that has been largely ignored, but this book covers it in dramatic fashion that is sure to fascinate aviation and military history readers.
Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0760314756ISBN 13: 9780760314753
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. This superb reference volume records the history of the most significant tanks that have seen service around the world. The book begins with the World War I era tanks, such as the British Mk 1, that attempted to break the deadlock of the Western Front. It then examines major tanks that emerged during the interwar period. All the celebrated World War II tanks are featured, including the PzKpfw VI Tiger, the M4 Sherman and the T-34. Finally, it surveys the incredible tanks of the postwar era, including the M48, the Merkava and T-54/-55.The text provides succinct information on the design, development, and combat performance of all the tanks featured. Entries are arranged by the year in which a tank first saw service. An introductory chapter presents an in-depth analysis of the development, production, and deployment of tanks.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0760309132ISBN 13: 9780760309131
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Rapid developments in aviation technology from the period immediately following World War II to the early 1970s brought high-speed air travel to the public and, in the process, seriously reduced the size of the world. This history of United States airliners' embryonic years bridges the propliner era that was famous for classic aluminum aircraft like the elegant Lockheed Constellation and stout Douglas DC-3 with the dawn of early jetliners like the DC-8, Boeing 707 and Convair 880. A combination of modern and period photography transports readers back to this heady era, helping to detail the evolution of American airliners and the heyday of luxury air travel. Each of these pioneering aircraft is depicted in a variety of liveries representing the period's United States airlines.
Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0760325251ISBN 13: 9780760325254
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In Strike, veteran aviation photographer and author Rick Llinares takes us beyond Top Gun, into the new era of integrated Carrier Air Wing strike training at the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center in Nevada. Llinares puts readers into the cockpit with the nations top pilots as they undergo air-to-ground, air-to-air, search-and-rescue, and intelligence training in the militarys most advanced aircraft.This book is the first profile of the U.S. militarys latest pilot training facility and procedures, including unprecedented access to the latest in warfare techniques and technology. Includes riveting and informative first-person accounts from the instructors, fleet air crews, and commanders, and 200 color photos of the aircraft in today's modern air force.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0760330034ISBN 13: 9780760330036
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Al-Qaida: in the 80s they were in Afghanistan, supported by America and fighting the Russians. In the new century they have metastasized throughout the worlds geopolitical body. Where were they in the 90s? Unholy Terror provides the answer, with all its terrifying implications for our world today.This book provides the missing piece in the puzzle of al-Qaidas transformation from an isolated fighting force into a lethal global threat: the Bosnian war of 1992 to 1995. John R. Schindler reveals the unexamined role that radical Islam played in that terrible conflict--and the ill-considered contributions of American policy to al-Qaidas growth. His book explores a truth long hidden from view: that, like Afghanistan in the 1980s, Bosnia in the 1990s became a training ground for the mujahidin. Unholy Terror at last exposes the shocking story of how bin Laden successfully exploited the Bosnian conflict for his own ends--and of how the U. S. Government gave substantial support to his unholy warriors, leading to blowback of epic proportions.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0760331464ISBN 13: 9780760331460
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. This is the story of the Allied forces--the U.S. 6th Army Group and French 1st Army--that landed in southern France on August 15th, 1944. The book follows the action from the French beaches to the Vosges Mountains, where the first Allied penetration along the entire Western front reached the Rhine River. First to the Rhine covers the vicious fighting during the German Nordwind counteroffensive in January 1945 and the French-American offensive to clear the Colmar Pocket. It then pursues the forces of the Third Reich across the Rhine to their ultimate destruction.Unlike the forces landing in Normandy, these American divisions were hard-bitten veterans of the war in Italy, and, in the case of the 3d Infantry Division, North Africa. The French units included many veterans of the Italian campaign and comprised Frenchmen and Africans in almost equal numbers. As the campaign went on, the French ranks were swelled by tens of thousands of Free French Forces of the Interior, the famous maquis.The German forces arrayed against the Allies included the famed 11th Panzer Division, an Eastern front veteran known as the "Ghost Division," which would hit the Allied advance time and again only to slip away before it could be pinned and destroyed. This is the harrowing story First to the Rhine tells, from the strategic plane-down through the corps, division, and regimental levels to the personal experience of the men in combat, including the likes of Audie Murphy, Americas most decorated infantryman of the war.The book features little-known battles, including one at Montelimar, when an ad hoc American armored command and the 36th Infantry Division came within a hairs breadth and several days of hard fighting of cutting off the entire German 19th Army. This is the first popular work in English to explore the French role in the fighting and the relationship between the U.S. Army and the French forces fighting under American command.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0760319405ISBN 13: 9780760319406
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. This unprecedented examination of the development of Lockheed's stealth program explains in depth how Skunkworks designers and engineers minimize and even eliminate radar, thermal, and acoustic signatures in the U-2, F-117, F-22, and X-35. Illustrated with photos from the company's archives and private collections, Sweetman gives current service and battle records of these planes, and describes the technologies and design elements that help these aircraft avoid detection.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0760305811ISBN 13: 9780760305812
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Boeings advanced 777 is taking passengers through the millenium in style and with all the benefits of the latest design and technology. Here Philip Birtles details the 777s early design, manufacture, production and service record, offering an inside look at how the 777 works and how Boeing engineers made it happen. Contains line drawings and full technical specs.
Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 076034034XISBN 13: 9780760340349
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Softcover. Condition: Good. New Edition. Otto Skorzeny, Germanys top commando in World War II, is the most famous man in the history of special forces. This book he tells the full story of the combat operations that made him a legend. When Mussolini was imprisoned in Italy in 1943, it was Skorzeny who successfully led the daring glider rescue. Skorzenys talents were brought into play again in 1944 when he was sent to Budapest to stop the Hungarian regent Admiral Horthy from signing a peace treaty with Stalin. Then dubbed the most dangerous man in Europe by the Allies, he took a critical role in the Ardennes offensive with a controversial plan to raise a brigade disguised as Americans with captured Sherman tanks. His captured colleagues spread a false rumor that he was planning to assassinate Eisenhower, who was consequently confined to his headquarters for weeks. Skorzenys memoirs vividly depict commando action and are a classic of special forces literature.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0760331480ISBN 13: 9780760331484
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. On August 7, 1942, a scant nine months after Pearl Harbor, the Marine Corps struck back against Japan on a small island half a world away: Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands. The stakes were high. The Japanese had been running roughshod across Asia and the Pacific and even into the Indian Ocean. If the Marines failed in the Solomons, New Guinea would almost certainly fall, mortally threatening Australia.The victory of the 1st Marine Division at Guadalcanal, told here in pictures for the first time, ranks with the most heroic, dramatic, and enduring of military history. The six-month long Guadalcanal campaign was by far the longest and most complicated operation the Marines faced in the Pacific War. It began with the weapons and tactics of the Marine Corps 1918 combat in France and ended with the revised weapons and tactics that would sweep aside the Japanese defenders of numerous formidable bases all across the wide Pacific--bringing the United States armed forces to total victory in the Pacific in World War II.This book is a fitting tribute to the men who sacrificed so much in winning this first stepping stone on the path to Tokyo Bay and victory over Japan.
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Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0760315035ISBN 13: 9780760315033
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Twenty-First Century Small Arms contains the most important weapons currently in use by infantry forces around the world. Developments in engineering and materials have increased the lethality of small arms, resulting in individual soldiers being able to carry weapons that are both lightweight but able to lay down large amounts of firepower against enemy troops at long ranges.
Published by Brand: Zenith Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0760326223ISBN 13: 9780760326220
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The slosh of water in a canteen, the rustle of a uniform, the jangle of extra clips of ammo, all the clinks and clanks of jostling packs of equipment-this is the soundtrack that accompanies fully loaded soldiers humping through the bush to their next assignment. Battle rattle is the stuff a soldier carries to get through the day, from mission-specific gear to general supplies. In short, what the soldiers on the ground affectionately call our crap.This book takes a close look at the commercial revolution in military clothing, packs, and equipment-soldiers buying from civilian companies instead of settling for government issue, customizing their gear to perfectly fit their needs and preferences. From boots and gloves to helmets and eyewear, from ponchos and packs to knives and rifles, Battle Rattle shows what the modern warfighter is using to fight the fight.
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