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Random House USA Inc Fractured Lands How the Arab World Came Apart
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a piercing account of how the contemporary Arab world came to be riven by catastrophe since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq.In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph of democracy, would give way to brutal civil war, the terrors of the Islamic State, and a global refugee crisis. But, as New York Times bestselling author Scott Anderson shows, the seeds of catastrophe had been sown long before. In this gripping account, Anderson examines the myriad complex causes of the region’s profound unraveling, tracing the ideological conflicts of the present to their origins in the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 and beyond. From this investigation emerges a rare view into a land in upheaval through the eyes of six individuals&m
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Contractor Gear A Collectors Guide to Weapons
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Johns Hopkins University Press Armed Humanitarians US Interventions from
Book SynopsisDiPrizio concludes with a discussion of the possible impact of America's ongoing antiterrorism campaign on the current Bush administration's policy on humanitarian interventions.Trade ReviewA fresh look at US interventions from a different angle... DiPrizio's controversial conclusions challenge some widely held beliefs and therefore can be expected to spark an animated debate that hopefully will help us to understand better one important aspect of humanitarian interventions. -- Dieter Janssen Journal of Peace Research 2004Table of ContentsContents: Preface and Acknowledgement List of Acronyms 1. Introduction 2. Northern Iraq: Operation Provide Comfort 3. Somalia: Operation Restore Hope 4. Rwanda: Operation Support Hope 5. Haiti: Operation Restore Democracy 6. Bosnia: Operation Deliberate Force 7. Kosovo: Operation Allied Force 8. Conclusion Postscript: The Aftermath of 11 September 2001 Appendix: Presidential Decision Directive 25 Notes Index
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Random House USA Inc Legend
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Random House USA Inc The Hardest Place
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The University Press of Kentucky The Quiet Professional
Book Synopsis"Dick" Meadows is renowned in military circles as a key figure in the development of the U.S. Army Special Operations. Although he officially retired in 1977, Meadows could never leave the army behind, and he went undercover in the clandestine operations to free American hostages from Iran in 1980.The Quiet Professional: Major Richard J.
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The University Press of Kentucky Lessons in Leadership My Life in the US Army from
Book SynopsisIn 1975, he received his fourth star and became commander of the US Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command.In Lessons in Leadership, this exceptional soldier not only discusses working with some of the army's most influential and colorful leaders -- including James M.
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The University Press of Kentucky The Struggle for Cooperation
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The University Press of Kentucky Desert Redleg
Book SynopsisPart military history, part personal memoir exploring the largest US artillery bombardment since World War II.
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The University of Alabama Press Eagle Days A Marine Legalinfantry Officer in
Book SynopsisMuch has been written about America's war in Vietnam, and an enduring and troubling subtext is the composition of the body of soldiers that made up the US troop deployment. This is the authors personal record of experiencing what the military should do best, and what it becomes when esprit de corps, discipline, and a sense of purpose decay.Trade ReviewAs a former Marine officer who served a tour in Vietnam from 1967-68 with the 3rd Marine Division below the DMZ, I found the manuscript extremely interesting At times, I found it hard to put down. The author is an excellent writer and story teller. His writing style is crystal clear, interspersed with subtle witticisms that had me chuckling out loud. I got a good feel for the kind of Marine officer that he was - a wise decent sort with lots of common sense. - James P. Coan, author of Con Thien; Hill of Angels ""The book is written with verve, humor, and poignancy and provides wonderful insight into a number of significant aspects of the Vietnam War."" - Peter Maslowski, coauthor of For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. NATO in the Crucible
Book SynopsisWhen the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) became involved in security operations during the War in Afghanistan, it faced a range of complex challenges, including a highly motivated Afghan insurgency that changed over time and repeatedly defied assumptions. Conflicts within NATO also posed challenges. The alliance brought together a quarter of the world's nations, each with its own goals and interests, in an effort to stabilize an agrarian country that posed no immediate security threat. For more than a decade, through changes in leadership and strategy, the nations experienced bitter disagreements, resentments, and a conflict that escalated to a level of violence and uncertainty few had anticipated. In NATO in the Crucible, Deborah Lynn Hanagan analyzes these challenges and explains how the alliance maintained cohesion despite them. She examines why NATO succeeded in Afghanistan when history suggests most coalitions fracture under such intense pressure. In the end, she arg
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University of Missouri Press Lessons Unlearned
Book SynopsisIn this blunt critique of the leadership of the US Army, Colonel Pat Proctor contends that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the US Army refused to reshape itself in response to the new strategic reality, a decision that saw it struggle through low-intensity conflicts in the 1980s and ‘90s, and leaving it unprepared for Afghanistan and Iraq.Trade ReviewA brutally honest, thought-provoking, and brilliant examination of the American military’s failure to adapt to post-Cold War realities and understand the challenges of the post-9/11 world; and a compelling warning against completely jettisoning hard-won lessons eventually learned in Iraq and Afghanistan while (understandably) shifting priorities to the potential of large-scale combat in an era of renewed great power rivalries." —David Petraeus, General, U.S. Army, Ret., former Commander of the Surge in Iraq, Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Central Command, and former Director of the CIA"Dr. Proctor's critiques of the past are hard-hitting, but even for those of us who would not go quite so far, his clear-eyed emphasis on the importance of future stabilization and counterinsurgency missions is compelling in a world heading soon for 10 billion humans and many dozens of megacities—with enormous nontraditional threats of great potential consequence to American national security lurking within.” —Michael O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and author of The Future of Land Warfare"Having done his homework thoroughly and having deployed widely in Iraq and Afghanistan, Colonel Pat Proctor has sallied forth to challenge U.S. Army doctrine. How does an organization prepare and perform to win both an unlikely major war and the every-day skirmishing called low-intensity conflicts? Proctor has the courage and intellectual firepower to challenge the status quo and to prescribe deep, real changes.” —Bing West, co-author with Jim Mattis of Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead" —Colonel (Retired) Pat Proctor has written an extremely thorough study of the history of the US Army from the fall of the Soviet Union to the present day, examining how the world's most professional and capable land force has struggled so mightily to succeed in two counterinsurgency campaigns. His conclusion—that the Army failed to prepare for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan despite considerable evidence that these were the kind of wars it was going to fight in this century—rings true and is informed by his own experience during so much of that time period. Highly recommended." —John Nagl, Headmaster at The Haverford School, author of Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice"Will contribute to very important debates about the future of the Army." —Richard A. Lacquement Jr., United States Army War College, author of Shaping American Military Capabilities after the Cold War.
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Michigan State University Press Forging a Fateful Alliance Michigan State
Book SynopsisAn important study of the Vietnam War and American higher education - revealing how secret and semi-secret institutional involvement in that conflict led to public disclosures that undermined the integrity of academe.
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Michigan State University Press Voices from the Underground v 1 Insider Stories
Book SynopsisOffers a collection of histories of underground papers from the Vietnam Era as written and told by key staff members of the time. Their stories represent a wide range of publications: countercultural, gay, lesbian, feminist, Puerto Rican, Native American, Black, socialist, Southern consciousness, prisoners' rights, New Age, rank-and-file, military, and more.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The New Left
Book SynopsisIn his latest publication, William L. O'Neill presents a concise critical history of the New Left, the thinking, people, and events that helped shape the 1960s in America, and its principal heir, the Academic Left.Table of ContentsForeword V Preface IX Chapter One: The Rise of SDS 1 Birth of the New Left 3 SDS Takes the Stage 7 Chapter Two: SDS: Decline and Fall 28 Chapter Three: Hippies and Yippies 45 The Counterculture 45 The Yippies 46 HUAC and The Yippies 54 The End of the Yippies 57 Chapter Four: Fadeout 60 Why the New Left Failed 66 Chapter Five: The Academic Left 79 Speech Codes 84 Multiculturalism 89 Affirmative Action 92 Sexual Harassment 100 Postmodernism 103 Conclusion 106 Bibliography Essay 11 Index 117
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Presidio Press Platoon Leader
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Presidio Press A Life In A Year The American Infantryman in
Book SynopsisThis provocative in-depth book focuses on the experiences of the infantry soldier in Vietnam. More than 60 Army and Marine Corps infantrymen speak of their experiences during their year-long tours of duty.
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Random House Publishing Group Blood Trails The Combat Diary of a Foot Soldier
Book SynopsisBAPTISM BY FIREChris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler’s checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the thick of two pivotal, fiercely fought Big Red One operations, going head-to-head against crack Viet cong and NVA troops in the notorious Iron Triangle and along the treacherous Cambodian border near Tay Ninh.Patrols, ambushes, plunging down VC tunnels, search and destroy missions-there were many ways to drive the enemy from his own backyard, as Ronnau quickly discovered. Based on the journal Ronnau kept in Vietnam, Blood Trails captures the hellish jungle war in all its stark life-and-death immediacy. This wrenching chronicle is also stirring testimony to the quiet courage of those unsung American heroes, many not yet twenty-one, who had a job to do and did it without complaint-fighting, sacrificing, and dying f
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Harpia Publishing, LLC Emb312 Tucano
Book SynopsisHarpia Publishing is proud to announce the launch of a new title for 2017, EMB-312 Tucano: Brazil's turboprop success story, set to become the definitive English-language reference work on this revolutionary Latin American aerospace product. Written by an expert in the field, this book recounts the story of Embraer's EMB-312 turboprop trainer, the first aircraft in its class to offer a cockpit and controls equivalent to its fighter contemporaries, as well enough power to match the high-speed manoeuvres of comparable jet trainers. Cheap to fly, capable of operating from unprepared runways and with limited maintenance requirements, the Tucano was Embraer's first design to be built under license outside Brazil, and more than 660 units were produced for service in 16 countries, seven of which have taken it into combat. Although it is best known as a trainer, this remarkable aircraft has also provided front-line air defence in countries including Paraguay and Honduras. After almost 30 yeTrade ReviewThis book describes the success story of the EMB Tucano and is a joy to read as well as a marvelous photo book showing the Tucano in all its executions and paintings that were used by the different air forces it served." - 5 stars * Aviationbookreviews.com *Modellers will find this publication valuable in the extreme for any Tucano build project, and personal accounts breathe extra life into what is an already fascinating, but previously ignored subject. Highly recommended. * Airfix Model World *
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MacMillan Audio Killing the Killers
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McGraw-Hill Education Connect Access Card for Americas Longest War
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McGraw-Hill Education Looseleaf for Americas Longest War
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Domicide
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA deeply moving and clear eyed account of the Syrian conflict from a scholar who has lived its harsh realities on the ground and in exile. Domicide dispels the fiction of a post-conflict Syria, reminding us that the violence continues unabated, just in different configurations, in the wake of war. Azzouz poignantly describes how predatory states weaponize urban reconstruction, enacting new waves of violence in an effort to re-write history and erase communities. Moving us away from the endless mourning of monumental destruction, Domicide tells the bigger story of loss, the deliberate destruction of home. An important book that impels readers to rethink the entire category and contradictions of heritage work that will uncomfortably challenge all of us seeking to capture a world of conflict. * Lynn Meskell, University of Pennsylvania, USA *A harrowing account of everyday violence in contemporary Syria. Azzouz painfully narrates the displacement, dispossession, and compounded grief that Syrians have endured with the loss of home and the social and material fabric that holds it together. In Domicide, we see how Syrians have reimagined and recreated home, against all odds, both inside Syria and in exile. A timely and must-read book. * Rosie Bsheer, Harvard University, USA *A passionate and informed analysis of the deliberate policy pursued by the Asad regime in destroying the built environment of Homs and other Syrian cities. Azzouz’s narrative bears witness to this policy of domicide and also to the courage and dignity with which Homsis defend their city and reconstruct its memory. * Khaled Fahmy, Tufts University, USA *An important contribution to studies of the human costs of the ongoing Syrian civil war ... [and] a call to action, for the clarity Azzouz lays bare of the systematic and deliberate way Homs has been targeted will inspire a new wave of resilience, and the will to rebuild better. * The New Arab *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword, by Lyse Doucet Preface Introduction 1. Domicide: Slow violence, division and destruction 2. War on home: In search of a place to call home 3. Domicide and representation 4. Domicidal reconstruction 5. Domicide in war and peace Bibliography
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Leadership in Modern War
Book SynopsisInspired by his own service, a career that traced the rise and fall of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria from 2014-2021, one US veteran of the war against ISIS has set out to explore how decisions are made in the heat of the moment and particularly in the face of the enemy.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Radioman TwentyFive Years in the Marine Corps
Book SynopsisFull career arc of a Marine--from lowly grunt to decorated air officer--spanning 1987 to 2013.
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Bomb and Americas Missile Age
Book SynopsisHow nuclear weapons helped drive the United States into the missile age. The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), designed to quickly deliver thermonuclear weapons to distant targets, was the central weapons system of the Cold War. ICBMs also carried the first astronauts and cosmonauts into orbit. More than a generation later, we are still living with the political, technological, and scientific effects of the space race, while nuclear-armed ICBMs remain on alert and in the headlines around the world. In The Bomb and America's Missile Age, Christopher Gainor explores the US Air Force's (USAF) decision, in March 1954, to build the Atlas, America's first ICBM. Beginning with the story of the guided missiles that were created before and during World War II, Gainor describes how the early Soviet and American rocket programs evolved over the course of the following decade. He argues that the USAF was wrongly criticized for unduly delaying the start of its ICBM program, endangeringTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Weapons of the Future 2. The Bomb and the Military in the Postwar World 3. Missiles in the Postwar Years 4. Tentative Steps on Rockets 5. Missiles in Question 6. Truman Moves on Missiles 7. The Revival of Ballistic Missiles 8. ICBMs Get the Go-Ahead 9. Deploying ICBMs 10. The Space Race Historiographical Essay: The Atlas in HistoryNotesBibliographyIndex
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Amberley Publishing The Harrier
Book SynopsisAuthor David Oliver describes the development and production of the Harrier from the original Kestrel project.
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) The San Marcos 10 An Antiwar Protest in Texas
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Arcadia Publishing Vietnam Photographs from North Carolina Veterans
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC In Good Faith
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Eyewitness Korea
Book SynopsisVivid first-hand accounts of American and British soldiers in the front line of the Korean War, giving insight into their recruitment, training, casualties and captivity as well as combat experience.
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University of Minnesota Press The War Came Home with Him: A Daughter's Memoir
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd North Korea Invades the South: Across the 38th
Book SynopsisWhen the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Syria, Somalia and Ukraine. In an era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, one such flashpoint was Korea Without warning, at 4.00 a.m. on 25 June 1950, North Korean artillery laid down a heavy bombardment on the Ongjin Peninsula, followed four hours later by a massive armoured, air, amphibious and infantry breach of the ill-conceived post-war border that was the 38 north line of latitude. At 11.00 a.m., North Korea issued a declaration of war against the Republic of Korea. Three days later, the South Korean capital, Seoul, fell. The attack upon Korea makes it plain beyond all doubt that Communism has passed beyond the use of subversion to conquer independent nations and will now use armed invasion and war. A week after his reaction to the North Korean invasion, US President Harry S. Truman, in compliance with a UN Security Council resolution, appointed that iconic Second World War veteran, General Douglas MacArthur, commander-in-chief of forces in Korea. The first in a six-volume series on the Korean War, this publication considers those first few fateful days in June 1950 that would cement north south antagonism to this day, the pariah state that is communist North Korea a seemingly increasing threat to an already tenuous global peace.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd North Korean Onslaught: Volume II: UN Stand at
Book SynopsisIn the first volume in this series on the Korean War, North Korea Invades the South, North Korean ground forces, armour and artillery crossed the 38th Parallel, and, in blitzkrieg style, rolled back UN and South Korean forces down the Korean peninsula. Despite the US and South Korea committing army, air force and navy units, supported by forces from Australia, Britain, New Zealand, France and Canada, by 31 July, eleven enemy divisions were concentrated in a disconnected line from Ch?nju to Y?ngdong. Along the south coast, North Korean divisions pushed eastward towards Masan. To the east and centre of the peninsula, the enemy closed in on Kimch'?n and the Naktong River line. On the east coast, three North Korean divisions secured the Y?ngd?k-P'ohang axis, placing them within mortar range of the UN airfield at Y?nil. Reeling, the UN forces desperately defended the 140-mile-line lodgement area that incorporated the port of Pusan. Supreme commander of UN forces, General Douglas MacArthur, had his back to the sea, facing thirteen enemy infantry divisions, two new tank brigades and an armoured division. On 1 September, North Korean forces launched their strongest offensive to date, and in the first two weeks of the month, American casualties became the heaviest of the war. Of particular concern to General Walker was the danger of losing the town of Taegu in the centre. The resultant loss of the strategic Taegu-Pusan railway would be catastrophic. MacArthur and Washington were running out of options, but the Pusan Perimeter had to be defended at all costs.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Bombing Campaign North Vietnam: Volume II:
Book SynopsisOn March 30, 1972 some 30,000 North Vietnamese troops along with tanks and heavy artillery surged across the demilitarized zone into South Vietnam in the opening round of Hanoi's Easter Offensive. By early May South Vietnamese forces were on the ropes and faltering. Without the support of U.S. combat troops - who were in their final stage of withdrawing from the country - the Saigon government was in danger of total collapse and with it any American hope of a negotiated settlement to the war. In response, President Richard Nixon called for an aggressive, sustained bombardment of North Vietnam. Code-named Operation Linebacker I, the interdiction effort sought to stem the flow of men and material southward, as well as sever all outside supply lines in the first new bombing of the North Vietnamese heartland in nearly four years. To meet the American air armada, North Vietnamese MiG fighters took to the skies and surface-to-missiles and anti-aircraft fire filled the air from May to October over Hanoi and Haiphong. With the failure of its Easter Offensive to achieve military victory, Hanoi reluctantly returned to the negotiating table in Paris. However, as the peace talks teetered on the edge of collapse in mid-December 1972, Nixon played his trump card: Operation Linebacker II. The resulting twelve-day Christmas bombing campaign from 18-30 December unleashed the full wrath of American air power. More than 2,200 attack sorties, including 724 B-52 sorties alone, were flown by Air Force and Navy aircraft delivering 15,287 tons of bombs that laid waste to the North Vietnamese capital. Railyards, military storage depots, power stations, and bridges, as well as radar and communication sites, airfields, and anti-aircraft defences were pummelled day and night. Linebacker II would prove to be decisive: a ceasefire agreement was signed on 23 January 1973.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Inchon Landing: MacArthur's Korean War
Book SynopsisInchon, a dramatic Cold War event: in the first two volumes in the author's series on battles of the Korean War, North Korean ground forces, armour and artillery cross the 38th Parallel into South Korea, inflicting successive ignominious defeats on the ill-prepared US-led UN troops, pushing them ever southward into a tiny defensive enclave the Pusan Perimeter on the tip of the Korean Peninsula. General Douglas MacArthur, Second World War veteran of the South East Asia and Pacific theatres, meets with considerable resistance to his plans for a counteroffensive, from both Washington and his staff in South Korea and Japan: it is typhoon season, the approaches to the South Korean port city of Inch'?n are not conducive to amphibious assault, and it will leave the besieged Pusan Perimeter in great danger of being overrun. However, the controversial MacArthur's obstinate persistency prevails and, with a mere three weeks to go, the US X Corps is activated to execute the invasion on D-Day, 15 September 1950. Elements of the US Marine Corps land successfully on the scheduled day, and with the element of surprise on their side, immediately strike east to Seoul, only 15 miles away. The next day, General Walker's Eighth US Army breaks out of Pusan to complete the southerly envelopment of the North Korean forces. Seoul falls on the 25th. MacArthur's impulsive gamble has paid off, and the South Korean government moves back to their capital. The North Koreans have been driven north of the 38th Parallel, effectively bringing to an end their invasion of the south that started on 25 June 1950.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Logistics in the Vietnam Wars, 1945-1975
Book SynopsisThe combatants in the three Vietnam wars from 1945 to 1975 employed widely contrasting supply methods. This fascinating book reveals that basic traditional techniques proved superior to expensive state of the art systems. During the Indochina or French' war, France's initial use of wheeled transport and finally air supply proved vulnerable given the terrain, climate and communist adaptability . The colonial power gave up the unequal struggle after the catastrophic defeat at Dien Bien Phu. To stem the advance of Communism throughout the region, the Americans stepped in to support the pro-Western South Vietnam regime and threw vast quantities of manpower and money at the problem. The cost became increasingly unpopular at home. General Giap's and Ho Chi Minh's ruthless use of coolies most famously on the Ho Chi Minh Trail proved resistant to carpet-bombing and Agent Orange defoliation. The outcome of the final war between the Communist North Vietnam and the corrupt Southern leadership, now with minimal US support, was almost a forgone conclusion. The Author is superbly qualified to examine these three wars from the logistic perspective. His conclusions make for compelling reading and will be instructive to acting practitioners and enquiring minds.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Phoenix 13 - Elite Helicopter Units in Vietnam:
Book SynopsisA collection of war stories closely based on the author's experiences flying scout/observation helicopters in Vietnam. Story telling was a daily evening occurrence for the solo scout pilots. These stories, called TINS, an irreverent pilot acronym for this is no shit,' allowed the solo pilots to learn from each other's experiences and mistakes. The TINS within this collection reveal the brotherhood that developed between pilots and their crew chiefs in combat. The solo pilots relied on their courage, swapping stories and a bit of luck to survive.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Into Helmand with the Walking Dead: A Story of
Book SynopsisThe Marines of First Battalion, Ninth Marines earned their macabre moniker 'The Walking Dead' in the Vietnam War. _Into Helmand with the Walking Dead_ follows the experiences of two Marine infantrymen from 1/9 fighting in Afghanistan. Following the 11 September attacks in 2001, Operation Enduring Freedom catalysed the longest war in United States history. The lives of thousands of Afghans, Americans, and many others were forever altered due to the ensuing war. The book is a brutally honest portrayal of life and death in the Marine infantry both at war in Afghanistan and upon returning to the home front, where issues of reintegration and suicide become a reality. This is the tale of the young Americans who became infantrymen and conducted America's foreign policy in its most ruthless and straight-forward manner. But war, in and of itself, is only playing a small part. The culture and environment from which they re-entered civil society would leave them uncertain, and confused as to the cataclysm they had just left. This book is a testimony to their experience and the legacy of war on their generation.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Tactical Reconnaissance in the Cold War: 1945 to
Book SynopsisThis book describes how the United States Air Force tactical reconnaissance units operated from the end of World War II until the 1970s. This was an immensely active period that also included major conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. It was also a period of rapid technological development in aircraft and photographic techniques. The book includes the following: Introduction: The post war period in Europe and the East. The Korean Conflict and the role of the 67th TRW from 1950 to 1954\. The role of the highly secret RF-86 missions over Red China and the Soviet Far East in the early to mid '50s. Also the RB-57A missions out of Bitburg and Yokota flying clandestinely over the Soviet Union and the RF-100A missions that were flown over the Soviet Union from Turkey, Rhine Maine and Yokota. United States Air Forces in Europe. The Cuban Missile Crisis and the role of the RF-101 Voodoos and RB-66s. Colour Profiles done by Robbie Robinson.
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Ivan R Dee, Inc The Hidden History of the Vietnam War
Book SynopsisThe United States could have won the war in Vietnam if only President Lyndon Johnson had let his air generals do what they wanted...if only we had intervened massively...if only we had pursued our campaign against the Viet Cong infrastructure. These propositions and others, advanced by apologists for the American defeat in Vietnam (many of them the very generals and officials responsible for prosecuting the war), are fast becoming conventional wisdom. In The Hidden History of the Vietnam War, John Prados meets them head on. His straightforward narrative does not aim to be a comprehensive history; instead he focuses on key strategies, events, and personalities in the struggle. Mr. Prados's book draws from a broad range of evidence, including archival documents and official military government reports. By avoiding the atomized individual accounts that have characterized much of the nonfiction on Vietnam, and selecting crucial issues and battle actions, he succeeds in illuminating the high points of the Vietnam experience and puncturing the popular mythologies of the war.Trade ReviewPerceptive...Prados probes deeply and with knowledgeable insights into the war. -- George McT. Kahin, author of InterventionLike sudden shafts of light, these well-aimed essays illuminate all areas of the hidden history of the war...thoroughly exciting and complex. -- Lloyd C. Gardner, author of Approaching VietnamThe Hidden History of the Vietnam War is a model of lucid writing and fair judgment which tells us things we need to know. -- Thomas Powers, author of Heisenberg's War
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Counterpoint Defeat: Losing Iraq and the Future of the Middle
Book SynopsisAs the dreadful reality of the coalition's defeat in Iraq begins to sink in, one question dominates Washington and London: Why? In this controversial new book, Jonathan Steele provides a stark and arresting answer: Bush and Blair were defeated from the day they decided to occupy the country. Steele describes the centuries of humiliation that have scarred the Iraqi national psyche, creating a powerful and deeply felt nationalism and spreading cultural landmines along the road to winning Baghdad. Steele shows for the first time how the invasion and occupation were perceived by ordinary Iraqis, whose feelings and experiences were completely ignored by Western policymakers. The result of such arrogance, Steele demonstrates, was a failure that will forever resonate with such dark chapters of American and British history as the Vietnam War and the Suez Canal crisis. Blending vivid reportage, informed analysis, and sweeping historical narrative, Defeat is the definitive post-mortem on this pivotal catastrophe.
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Frog Ltd War Lessons: How I Fought to Be a Hero and
Book SynopsisMilitary memoirs abound, but few prove to be trustworthy accounts free of spin, bravura, or military glitter. John Merson’s War Lessons takes a rare reflective approach to this pressing issue of our time. In vivid, unadorned prose, he interweaves his own experiences in war with thoughtful assessments of how to prevent it. He highlights the daily experience of combat from the perspective of both the foot soldier and the villager in whose home the war is being fought. When he leaves Vietnam, Merson begins an odyssey that brings him back eight times. The book limns this process as a poignant personal voyage and the author struggles to understand why young people are drawn to war, how it changes those who fight it, why its destructive effects persist on both sides, how former enemies reconcile, and how soldiers wanted to be treated and remembered by the citizens who send them to war. War Lessons also offers hope, suggesting strategies for young people to help the world reclaim its humanity through healing actions such as participating in UN peacekeeping programs, working to prosecute war crimes, and protecting refugees.
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Westholme Publishing, U.S. The Hardest Journey Home: A True Story of Loss
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Westholme Publishing, U.S. The Agony of Heroes: Medical Care for America's
Book SynopsisThe author, a veteran, is professor and chief of general surgery for the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Details the struggles at five iconic American battles: Bataan, Anzio, Bastogne (World War II); Chosin (Korea); Khe Sanh (Vietnam). Most readers do not think about what happens to wounded soldiers; this book is as gripping and moving as any great military history, yet it revolves around the immediate care of soldiers who have suffered in combat. All of the medical personnel discussed are often within in yards of the fighting. In many ways, this book provides a much better sense of actual combat than any fighting soldier's memoir. Here, often in little to no light, often crawling on the ground, doctors try to assess who can be saved amidst the carnage. In some cases, they must attempt to provide medical care with no supplies. Nurses, doctors, and corpsmen are all discussed in each battle and how they worked together, living and dying alongside the soldiers they were charged with healing. As technology advanced, soldiers who would have died in previous wars were now saved, but as the author reveals through the recollection of doctors, the medical staff were as scarred as the men they had kept alive were they really doing the soldiers a service? Soldiers who would have to carry on with a disfigured face, without an arm, leg, pissing in a bag, or more? This is a very powerful book, well written, passionate, and provides the balance what the actual sacrifices are to traditional military histories.
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Buried Alive: The True Story of Kidnapping,
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