Название: Drugs and Thugs: The History and Future of America's War on Drugs
Автор: Russell C. Crandall
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300240341
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 520
Размер: 13,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

How can the United States chart a path forward in the war on drugs? In Drugs and Thugs, Russell Crandall uncovers the full history of this war that has lasted more than a century. As a scholar and a high-level national security advisor to both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, he provides an essential view of the economic, political, and human impacts of U.S. drug policies.

Название: Mosquito Photo-Reconnaissance Units of World War 2 (Osprey Combat Aircraft 13)
Автор: Martin Bowman
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1855328917
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 98
Размер: 21,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The third volume in the trilogy of Combat Aircraft titles devoted to de Havilland's 'wooden wonder', this book focuses on the Mosquito photo-recce variants, and their users. The design's superb performance, and ability to escape interception by enemy fighters made the Mosquito the ideal choice for the RAF's then embryonic photographic reconnaissance force. The production standard PR1 subsequently became the first Mosquito variant of any kind to see operational service with the RAF, flying its first sortie [over France] on 20 September 1941. These aircraft flew all manner of bomber support missions ranging from simple post-raid photo-recce to weather checking and experimental H2X radar photo-mapping. All are detailed in this volume.

Название: The Gunpowder Plot Deceit
Автор: Martyn R Beardsley
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526725681
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 208
Размер: 3,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Most people think they know the story of the Gunpowder Plot, and of how a bloody catastrophe was averted at the eleventh hour when Guy Fawkes was caught lurking in the shadows beneath the Houses of Parliament.

Название: The Tactical Advantage: A Definitive Study of Personal Small-Arms Tactics
Автор: Gabriel Suarez
Издательство: Paladin Press
ISBN: 0873649753
Год: 1998
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 218
Размер: 4,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Read this book and learn the combat-proven techniques big-city cops use to stay alive and effective when the bullets start flying. Maintain the tactical advantage in any situation by knowing how to search buildings for armed intruders, use cover and concealment, maintain proper distance intervals and much more.

Название: Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War
Автор: David R. Como
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199541914
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 480
Размер: 73,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War charts the way the English civil war of the 1640s mutated into a revolution, in turn paving the way for the later execution of King Charles I and the abolition of the monarchy.

Название: Rogue Forces
Автор: Mark Willacy
Издательство: Simon & Schuster Australia
ISBN: 1761101781
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 416
Размер: 64,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Rogue Forces is the explosive first insiders' story of how some of Australia's revered SAS soldiers crossed the line in Afghanistan, descending from elite warriors to unlawful killers.
Mark Willacy, who won a Gold Walkley for exposing SAS war crimes, has penetrated the SAS code of silence to reveal one of the darkest chapters in our country's military history.

Название: John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy
Автор: Evan Thomas
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0743258045
Год: 2004
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 400
Размер: 12,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way."

Название: 1943: The Victory That Never Was
Автор: John Grigg
Издательство: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571303757
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 276
Размер: 3,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

On June 6 1944 - 'D-Day' - Allied troops landed in France, opening a way to eventual victory. In this provocative reappraisal of the Second World War, John Grigg suggests that the Allied invasion could have been launched successfully in the previous year, reducing considerably the scale of the war's human tragedy.

Название: Dwight D. Eisenhower: An Associated Press Biography
Автор: The Associated Press, Relman Morin
Издательство: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1733846204
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 394
Размер: 2,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

From the time of his childhood in rural Kansas, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s vision of himself and his country was one of confidence and hope. His hard-working parents taught him self-reliance and nothing that happened in his long career ever eroded this trait.
During nearly half a century of service to his country and the world, Eisenhower displayed a deep understanding of the nation's problems, aspirations, and fears that prevailed during both war and peace.

Название: Rise of the Ironclads
Автор: George F. Amadon
Издательство: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
Год: 1988
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 82
Размер: 57,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

This books does an excellent job of explaining the struggle between the Union and Confederate navies. England was very supportive of the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War, providing the Southerners with food, clothing, medicine, and the tools of war. Then the blockade of Southern ports by the wooden Union Navy became more effective. The Confederacy considered this act to be evil and cruel because it denied women and children the necessities of life.