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Download Napoleon's Guns 1792-1815 (2): Heavy and Siege Artillery by René Chartrand PDF

By René Chartrand

This quantity is the second one half the tale of the French artillery through the progressive and Napoleonic Wars. It covers the howitzers, mortars and massive siege (16- and 24-pdrs) and garrison (8- and 12-pdrs) weapons, putting a unique emphasis on their position, technical importance and operational use. The creation of the Gribeauval approach installed position a suite of mortars and massive weapons that have been lighter and extra viable than these formerly used, whereas supplying firstclass hitting power.

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Download Crusader and Covenanter Cruiser Tanks 1939-45 (New Vanguard, by David Fletcher PDF

By David Fletcher

The Covenanter (which by no means observed lively provider) and Crusader Cruiser tanks have been built among 1939 and 1940. The Crusader first observed motion within the North African wilderness in June 1941: its velocity and glossy layout made it a troublesome goal to hit, and the tank was once well-respected by way of the Afrikakorps for its pace in strive against. yet its moved quickly improvement sooner than global battle II additionally made it liable to mechanical failure. This publication examines the Covenanter and the various versions of the Crusader tank, detailing the designs, advancements and disappointments of those notorious global conflict II tanks.

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Download The Circuit: An EX-SAS Soldier's True Account Of One Of The by Bob Shepherd PDF

By Bob Shepherd

After approximately twenty years of SAS operations, together with a by no means earlier than released position within the notorious Bravo 0 patrol, Bob retired from the army to paintings as an consultant at the overseas advertisement defense circuit.

Certain his most threatening days have been at the back of him, Bob settled right into a sedate existence taking care of VIPs. Then Sept. 11 occurred. Bob stumbled on himself again in struggle zones on assignments way more perilous than something he had encountered within the SAS: from ferrying newshounds throughout firing strains within the West financial institution and Gaza to vacationing to the center of Osama bin Laden’s Afghan lair. As a part of a two-man workforce, Bob looked for ITN Correspondent Terry Lloyd’s lacking team in Basra, Iraq, whereas in Afghanistan, he used to be compelled to spend the evening because the merely Westerner in Khost – with a $25,000 bounty on his head.

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Download War of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir by Sam Adams PDF

By Sam Adams

Sam Adams enjoyed intelligence paintings, and that enthusiasm shines all through this memoir of his years with the primary Intelligence employer. His profession used to be ruled via an epic fight over Vietnam -- over army makes an attempt to conceal the genuine dimension of the enemy forces there, and over the integrity of the intelligence strategy. Adams's insistence on telling the reality prompted an ungodly ruckus in either Washington and Saigon on the time, and years later, after the CIA had threatened to fireplace him (on 13 occasions!) and he had hand over the enterprise in disgust, Adams introduced his tale again as much as the outside extra loudly than ever in a CBS tv documentary which ultimately ended in a infamous trial on libel fees introduced through common William Westmoreland.
After leaving the CIA, Adams sat right down to write an account of his existence on the company. there's not anything else relatively just like the tale he tells.

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Download Harold Macmillan and the Berlin Wall Crisis, 1958–62: The by J. Gearson PDF

By J. Gearson

Drawing on newly published govt papers, John Gearson assesses the advance of Harold Macmillan's international coverage throughout the Berlin Wall problem. Tracing the sour alliance disputes of the hindrance, Dr Gearson exhibits how Macmillan's makes an attempt to chart an autonomous path, crucially undermined his status along with his ecu companions and published his stressed method of eu protection. Berlin is positioned on the centre of attention of British international coverage, making this ebook an immense contribution to the historiography of the interval.

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Download DH 2 vs Albatros D I/D II: Western Front 1916 (Duel, Volume by James Miller PDF

By James Miller

The arrival and deployment of the Royal Flying Corps' Airco DH 2 in 1916 successfully eradicated the 'scourge' of aerial dominance loved by way of the Fokker Eindecker monoplanes. Spearheaded via No 24 Sqn and led by means of Victoria go recipient Lanoe Hawker, the ungainly but nimble DH 2 - with its rotary engine 'pusher' configuration affording first-class visibility and taking out the necessity for a synchronised computer gun - had wrested air superiority from the Germans through the spring after which maintained it during the conflict of the Somme that summer season. in spite of the fact that, by means of autumn German reorganisation had visible the delivery of the Jagdstaffel and arrival of the recent Albatros D II, a swish inline-engined computing device equipped for velocity and twin-gun firepower. therefore, for the rest of the yr an epic fight for aerial superiority raged above the horrors of the Somme battlefields, pitting the manoeuvrable but under-gunned DH 2s - which have been additionally suffering from sundry engine malfunctions - opposed to the fewer nimble but larger armed and speedier Albatros D IIs. finally the Germans might regain air superiority, 3 squadron commanders - of whom have been thought of pinnacles in their respective air forces - might lose their lives, and an up-and-coming pilot (Manfred von Richthofen) may triumph in a mythical dogfight and accomplish unimagined heights struggling with with strategies discovered from a fallen mentor.

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Download Stryker Combat Vehicles (New Vanguard, Volume 121) by Gordon Rottman PDF

By Gordon Rottman

The eight-wheeled (8x8) Stryker wrestle mild armored motor vehicle used to be followed through the U.S. military in 2002 to supply a relatively speedily deployable contingency strength with armor security, tactical mobility, and heavy firepower, in addition to complicated command, keep an eye on communications, computing device, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) services. masking the 1st new US military unlock because the M1 Abrams MBT, this publication info the belief, ongoing improvement and deployment of 1 of the main hugely expected new AFVs in recent times, together with its carrier in Iraq and the resultant controversy surrounding the Stryker's various successes.

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Download Twenty Days in the Reich: Three Downed RAF Aircrew on the by Tim Scott PDF

By Tim Scott

On 15 March 1945 3 workforce participants of a Bomber Command Lancaster baled from their crippled plane over the japanese Rhur. the writer of this booklet was once the navigator and a type of males. All 3 chanced on themselves in quiet nation-state yet have been quickly captured and imprisoned in a village detention center. After a short while they have been moved and now unfolds the story of ways German guards led them over one hundred twenty miles to their eventual PoW vacation spot. due to the fact they have been on the subject of the advancing Allied forces the transportation method used to be in chaos they usually traveled occasionally by means of one of many few final trains or through hitchhiking. The nights have been bitterly chilly and necessary little heating used to be to be had. the 2 guards have been sympathetic and the small social gathering was once surprised by way of the civility of the local community, because the RAF used to be rife with stories of bad violence whilst downed RAF group fell into civilian arms, one of many result of the blanket bombing offence that used to be then underway. At one degree their guards fell asleep and break out was once thought of, yet finally rejected they usually have been added right into a move PoW camp. sooner than they have been rescued through Allied forces, 22 days after baling out, the 3 had merely spent 15 days as prisoners and basically 36 hours in the back of barbed cord.

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