Red Armor Combat Orders, Armstrong

Автор: Carruthers Bob
Название: SS Specialist Units in Combat
ISBN: 1473868483 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473868489
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 15830.00 T
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Описание: It is an often overlooked fact that the SS Divisions included Cavalrymen, Paratroopers, Mountain and Ski Battalions and these rare photographs illustrate the unique role played by specialist units in action.

Автор: Davies Peter E.
Название: Rf-101 Voodoo Units in Combat
ISBN: 1472829158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472829153
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Цена: 15980.00 T
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This study tells the combat stories of the extraordinary RF-101, highlighting the difficulty of the missions on which it was sent and the courage of its pilots.

McDonnell's F-101 Voodoo series was in many ways the most interesting of the "Century Series" fighter programs of the 1950s, partly because the type's design and intended mission changed radically during a 40-year career. Originally designed as a fighter-bomber, it was converted to be a reconnaissance aircraft, serving alongside the U-2 and RF-8 Crusaders during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. Although it gained a reputation as a difficult aircraft to handle, the jet's supersonic speed and newly-developed camera suite enabled it to conduct vital low-altitude photo-reconnaissance missions over heavily-defended target areas.

In combat, the RF 101 was usually "first in-last out" for strike missions. This made it a ready target, with a solo aircraft flying straight and level to gather target photo evidence at low altitude offering enemy gunners plenty of opportunity to shoot the Voodoo down.

Автор: Al J. Venter & Friends
Название: Combat: South Africa at War Along the Angolan Frontier
ISBN: 1911628739 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911628736
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Цена: 46200.00 T
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Описание: Al Venter's latest book on South Africa's 23-year Border War along the Angolan frontier offers a host of new perspectives. These include details about units like the South African Air Force 44 Squadron which converted Dakota aircraft into flying gun platforms similar to those used in America's war in South-East Asia. He also has American nuclear specialist David Albright - one of the leading authorities on nuclear proliferation - take a long hard look at Pretoria's atom bomb program. Elsewhere he deals with the medium-range intercontinental ballistic missile programme that was developed (with Israeli help) in conjunction with building the bomb. Most salient, Venter takes a fresh look at the enemies that were ranged against the SADF, and in particular how SWAPO guerrillas fared. They were obviously a gutsy, well-trained and well-motivated guerrilla force to have survived almost a quarter century of hostilities: indeed, as an insurgent force they were streets ahead of other guerrilla groups such as those who fought the Portuguese and the Rhodesians. Combat-wise, South Africa's ANC military wing does not even begin to compare. There is also, within more than 20 chapters - written either by the author or by specialist friends - a fascinating chapter on covert communications during the war which stretched almost all the way across Africa and into the Indian Ocean. Another chapter looks at what gave the six-wheeled 'thin-skinned' Ratel Infantry Combat Vehicle the ability to tackle Soviet main battle tanks in combat during the course of several Angolan conventional bush war battles and thrash them, a world first that remains unbeaten.

Автор: Vincent P. O`Hara
Название: The U.S. Navy Against the Axis: Surface Combat, 1941-1945
ISBN: 1682471853 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682471852
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 22530.00 T
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Описание: Tells the story of the US Navy`s surface fleet in World War II with an emphasis on ship-to-ship combat. It advances the thesis that the fleet`s role in America`s ultimate victory was more crucial than commonly realized and that it holds many lessons for today`s navy and the US as a whole.

Автор: Schneider, Wolfgang
Название: Tigers in combat
ISBN: 0811732037 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780811732031
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Цена: 27540.00 T
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Описание: Deals with the Tiger tanks of the Waffen-SS and the Wehrmacht`s "named" units, such as the Grosdeutschland Division, Company Hummel, and Tiger Group Meyer. Based on combat diaries, this book tells the history of each unit, but most of the book is devoted to photos of the tanks and the men who manned them.

Автор: Steplyk Jonathan M.
Название: Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat
ISBN: 070062628X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700626281
Издательство: Turpin
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Цена: 41830.00 T
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Описание: War means fighting, and fighting means killing."" Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest famously declared.The Civil War was fundamentally a matter of Americans killing Americans. This undeniable reality is what Jonathan Steplyk explores in Fighting Means Killing, the first book-length study of Union and Confederate soldiers’ attitudes toward, and experiences of, killing in the Civil War.Drawing upon letters, diaries, and postwar reminiscences, Steplyk examines what soldiers and veterans thought about killing before, during, and after the war. How did these soldiers view sharpshooters? How about hand-to-hand combat? What language did they use to describe killing in combat? What cultural and societal factors influenced their attitudes? And what was the impact of race in battlefield atrocities and bitter clashes between white Confederates and black Federals? These are the questions that Steplyk seeks to answer in Fighting Means Killing, a work that bridges the gap between military and social history—and that shifts the focus on the tragedy of the Civil War from fighting and dying for cause and country to fighting and killing.

Автор: Bardunias Paul M., Ray Jr Reginald
Название: Hoplites at War: A Comprehensive Analysis of Heavy Infantry Combat in the Greek World, 750-100 Bce
ISBN: 1476666024 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476666020
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 44350.00 T
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Описание: It has been 2500 years since the Greek heavy infantry known as hoplites dominated the battlefield. Drawing on classical literature, archaeology and the latest data from physical, behavioral and medical science, this study of hoplite equipment, tactics and command seeks to separate modern myths from observable facts.