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Apocalypse Dawn (Left Behind - Apocalypse #1)
by Mel OdomFrom the decks of U.S. Navy carriers patrolling the Mediterranean to Fort Benning, Georgia, and the dusty sands of the Turkish-Syrian border, this new suspense thriller runs side by side with the phenomenal series that has sold more than 50 million copies. New characters and situations are added to those from the already explosive Left Behind series to raise the tension to a fever pitch. With technical accuracy from the same people who create best-selling military thrillers, this new series will satisfy the fans of the original Left Behind series who are looking for more.
Vanished Arizona, Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman
by Martha SummerhayesI have written this story of my army life at the urgent and ceaseless request of my children.
Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army
by Michael E. Staub Kayla Williams"A woman soldier has to toughen herself up," writes Kayla Williams in this fiercely honest account of what it's like to be part of the female 15 percent of today's Army. "Not just for the enemy, for battle, for death. I mean to toughen herself to spend months awash in a sea of nervy, hyped-up guys " Irreverent, vulnerable, angry, and humane, Williams describes what it's like for a young woman to be surrounded by an ocean of testosterone, respected for her skills and qualifications but treated variously as a soldier, a sister, a mother, a bitch, and a slut. During her five years of service -- including a year of deployment to Iraq during and after the invasionWilliams and her female peers navigate both extreme physical danger and emotional minefields. As a specialist in Military Intelligence, fluent in Arabic language skills, Williams finds herself at the forefront of the troops' interaction with local people. Brave and patriotic, with a strong sense of duty to her country and her fellow soldiers, +
The Persian Gulf Crisis
by Steve A. Yetiv Randall M. MillerOne in a series by the Greenwood Press entitled Guide to Events of the Twentieth Century.
Rebels, Mercenaries, and Dividends: The Katanga Story
by Smith HempstoneM'Siri's Ghost, Modern Katanga, A Scandal of Riches, Dramatis Personae, Political Jockeying, Chaos and Secession, Murder, Diplomacy, and Imprisonment, The Phony War, The December War, Kitona and Its Aftermath.
Fireworks Tonight!
by Martha BrennerFrom the Book Jacket: Streams of sparks and sprays of colored stars light up the dark sky, thundering blasts echo all around ... FIREWORKS TONIGHT! For centuries man has been playing with fire with dazzling, sometimes dire, results-and few things have as much power to astound and intrigue us. Martha Brenner's research has turned up a wealth of fascinating information on the world of pyrotechnics. She covers the history of fireworks from the primitive firecrackers developed some 2000 years ago in China to the breathtaking special effects of today, the tragic accidents that have led to current laws regulating their use, the intriguing step-by-step development of a modern fireworks show from the drawing board to the actual shooting. How are fireworks made? Very carefully! And almost entirely by hand, because metal machinery produces heat and static electricity that could easily ignite an entire building full of explosives. Who makes fireworks? Most are manufactured by a handful of dynamic, devoted families that have passed on their tricks and trademarks for generations. Fireworks Tonight! gives us profiles of them and their particular pyrotechnical styles. How do fireworks work? Martha Brenner explains that, too-in clear, scientific detail. And there's more. Fireworks Tonight! includes a trip behind the scenes at a fireworks show, a visit to a manufacturing plant, a section on safety, a list of the 50 states' current laws on their sale and use, an illustrated spectators' guide-to help fire works fans tell a roman candle from a rocket and a list of notable fireworks facts: the biggest display in history, the loudest, the longest .. . Generously illustrated with over 60 photo graphs and prints, Fireworks Tonight! is a lively, accurate, and comprehensive introduction to a subject of universal appeal.
Beirut Diary
by Charles L. BreindelThe book recounts Dr. Breindel's professorship in Beirut in 1982, how fighting broke out, and how he and others were daptured. The book shows how the experience changed his life. Really interesting. "This book has been a long time in formulation. It has been an idea gestating in my mind and in those of many dear friends who wanted to hear the story of my third and final trip to the American University of Beirut. It was well known by many that I kept detailed diaries during those early days of international travel. Because of that, many have been requesting the publication of the diary from that fateful trip 23 years ago. But I was not ready to share my story, nor the significance that those days in Beirut in the spring of 1982 had on my life. I was still an "open book," naive and looking for meaning in life, after I got back home. What I found in Beirut was not apparent to me until many years later when good hindsight brought into better perspective the life-changing experience of Beirut. I went to Beirut as a young visiting assistant professor to teach a short course in health planning. I returned still the same professional, but with a different worldview, a budding sense of God in my life, and a new hunger for understanding and wisdom that was unparalleled in my prior life. Before Beirut, I was "putting in time," existing, not being particularly satisfied, yet not dissatisfied. Not knowing the possibilities available in my life, I was unaware that there were other possibilities, other realities."
Target Lock
by James H. CobbA manufacturing and information-gathering satellite is stolen by a band of Indonesian pirates. It's up to Captain Amanda Garrett and the U.S. Navy Special Forces to get it back.
Hornblower and the Atropos (The Hornblower Saga, Book #8)
by C. S. ForesterAdmiral Nelson is dead. The war with Bonaparte continues and there's a lot of gold to be salvaged. Follows Hornblower and the Hotspur.
Guadalcanal Diary
by Richard TregaskisThe battle for Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands, an important turning point of the war in the Pacific, is now recognized as one of the most vital campaigns in all our history. Richard Tregaskis, a war correspondent for International News Service during World War II, was with the marines when they landed on the Japanese-held island of Guadalcanal in the summer of 1942. <P> For seven crucial weeks he ate, slept, and sweated with our front-line units. He also kept a diary, in which he described the island's occupation by our forces and their magnificent defense of that seven-mile strip against innumerable attacks by superior air, land and sea forces. This remarkable diary was originally published in 1943, and has since become a classic of World War II reporting. <P> For this shorter, Landmark edition Mr. Tregaskis has written several new chapters to tell how the battle for Guadalcanal fitted into the history of the war in the Pacific. Thus the reader will gain an understanding of why the battle for Guadalcanal ranks in importance with Valley Forge and Gettysburg.
Jewel of the Desert: Japanese American Internment at Topaz
by Sandra C. TaylorAt the outbreak of World War II, the Japanese Americans who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area were sent to "relocation camps," chiefly to Topaz in the Utah desert. This book, based on interviews and extensive historical research, is a vivid account of the lives of the people who were forcibly confined at Topaz. The book also examines how the internment experience affected these people in the decades after the war. Other books in this subject area are available from Bookshare.
Ordinary Heroes
by Scott TurowFROM THE PUBLISHER "Stewart knew his father had served in World War II. But when, after his father's death, he discovers a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancee and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment. he is plunged into the mystery of his family's secret history and is driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic, distant man who always refused to talk about his war." "As he pieces together his father's past through military archives, letters, and, finally, notes from a memoir his father wrote in prison, secretly preserved by the officer who defended him, Stewart starts to assemble a dramatic and baffling chain of events. He learns how Dubin, a JAG lawyer attached to Patron's Third Army and eager for combat experience, got more than he bargained for when he was ordered to arrest Robert Martin, a wayward OSS officer who, despite his spectacular bravery with the French Resistance, appeared to be acting on orders other than his commander's." "In pursuit of Martin, Dubin and his sergeant had parachuted into Bastogne just as the Battle of the Bulge reached its apex. Pressed into the leadership of a desperately depleted rifle company, the men were forced to abandon their quest for Martin and his fiery, maddeningly elusive comrade, Gita Lodz, as they fought for their lives through the ferocious winter battle that would determine Europe's fate." Reconstructing the terrible events and agonizing choices his father faced on the battlefield, in the courtroom, and in love, Stewart gains a closer understanding of his past, of his father's character, and of the brutal nature of war itself.
The Future Security Environment in the Middle East: Conflict, Stability, and Political Change
by Daniel L. Byman Nora BensahelThe setting for conflict, stability, and political change in the Middle East just prior to 9-11-2001. Research commissioned by the U.S. Air Force and made available for public viewing.
The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas P. M. BarnettAnalysis of how the world is changing with respect to power and possibilities.
They Were Expendable
by W. L. WhiteHere is the first great story of our war as seen by the men fighting it. When the first Japanese planes roared over Manila Bay, Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 went into action. And when General MacArthur was ordered to Australia, Squadron 3-what was left of it- was picked to take him on the perilous trip out of Bataan. Squadron 3 fought on the sea, but its members talked, in the comradeship of battle, with the men who fought on land and in the air. The result is more than the adventure story of this single squadron, for in the background is the whole tragic panorama of the Philippine Campaign-the hopelessness and the flaming courage around America's little Dunkirk. W. L. White has interviewed four of the survivors of Squadron 3-Bulkeley, Kelly, Akers, and Cox, names already known throughout the nation-and woven their fighting accounts into a memorable and moving pattern. Mr. White has never done a finer job of writing. He has caught the very accents of experience. It is plain talk, which becomes gallant talk for all that it does not say as well as for what is said. they were expendable is a document to stir all of us-a brave and grim story to put against all complacency.
Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy
by Kai Bird Lawrence LifschultzExamines the controversy around the use of the atomic bomb to end the war with Japan.
Origins of the War of 1914
by Luigi Albertini Isabella M. MasseyA classic study of the causes of World War One written in the 1950's. Vol Two is a stand alone examination of the immediate origins of the war.
Comanche Six: Company Commander, Vietnam
by James L. EstepThis is a story of American soldiers who fought in a faraway place, for an elusive cause.
The Big Breach: From Top Secret to Maximum Security
by Richard TomlinsonRichard Tomlinson was recruited by MI6, the British foreign intelligence service, during his senior year at Cambridge University. He quickly gained the trust and confidence of one of the world's most effective intelligence organisations. MI6 relied on Tomlinson to smuggle nuclear secrets out of Moscow, to run an undercover operation in Sarajevo while the city was under siege, and to infiltrate and dismantle a criminal group that sought to export chemical weapons capabilities to Iran.
End of a Berlin Diary
by William L. Shirer"When I came home from Berlin at Christmas time in 1940, I found most of my fellow countrymen unaware of what Hitler was really up to and somewhat confused as to how he had accomplished his evil designs. Some Americans didn't much care. Since it had been my lot to witness Europe's agony at first hand, I collected some of my notes in a book for the edification of such citizens as cared to read it. This book of notes is, in a way, a sequel to Berlin Diary. It is the end of my own small contribution to the Berlin story. There was a great deal, of course, that a reporter had not been able to learn in the frenzied Nazi capital beyond the Elbe. The sinister plots, the fateful decisions, that had plunged the world into such awful horror and misery had been made in secret. And what had really gone on in Germany after I left? Had defeat and collapse solved the German problem -- at least for the rest of our lifetime ? After the war's end I went back to Berlin to try to find out. I prowled the obscene ruins of the once proud capital and talked with the remnants of the Herrenvolk. At Nuremberg, amidst the debris of the lovely medieval town, I saw the surviving leaders of the Nazi gangster world, who had wielded such monstrous power so arrogantly when last I beheld them, finally brought to justice. Most important of all, I had access to a good part of the fourteen hundred tons of secret German documents that the Allies had captured intact. You will find the essential portions of many of them in this book. I have been content to let the German authors tell in their own inimitable words the dark and almost unbelievable tale of their savagery and deceit. Had these secret archives of the German government been destroyed, as the Nazis intended them to be, much of the truth about our weird period in history would have been buried forever. Now it is here for those who care to learn it. I have also tried to include in this book the thread of another story -- the story of the beginning of the Peace. Reader, you and I have already forgotten the fleeting moment of glory and man's magnificent sense of dedication the day peace descended on this wretched earth. I know that erring mortals cannot remain on the heights for long. But these notes, scribbled down at the time, may help to remind you that many on our side achieved those heights after the war's bloody struggles had brought out their inhuman courage, their bravery, and their wonderful fortitude."
The Lost Boys of Sudan
by Mark BixlerThis book is about the lost boys of Sudan. These boys were separated from their families by war, and walked to Ethiopia. They migrated to the US, which was a world beyond their wildest dreams.
Emergency Deep
by Michael DimercurioIslamic terrorists acquire the deadliest submarine in the world