Predators is a riveting introduction to the murky world of Predator and Reaper drones, the CIA’s and U.S. military’s most effective and controversial killing tools. Brian Glyn Williams combines policy analysis with the human drama of the spies,...
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Биографии и мемуары, Военная документалистика и аналитика
The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness
Here is a remarkable true story of forgiveness—a tremendous testament to the courage that propels one toward remembrance, and finally, peace with the past. A classic war autobiography, The Railway Man is a powerful tale of survival and of the...
Военная документалистика и аналитика
Red Thrust: Attack on the Central Front, Soviet Tactics and Capabilities in the 1990s
Written in 1989, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the general implosion of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union, Zaloga creates an interesting and extremely plausible scenario of World War III. The focus shifts from the strategic view to...
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Военная история
Vulcan 607: The Epic Story of the Most Remarkable British Air Attack Since WWII
It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943…
April 1982. Argentine forces had invaded the Falkland Islands. Britain needed an answer....
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Публицистика
Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam
Scorched Earth is the first book to chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than 3 million people—including 500,000 children—are sick and dying from birth defects, cancer,...
Биографии и мемуары, Военная документалистика и аналитика
19 with a Bullet: A South African Paratrooper in Angola
A fast-moving, action-packed account of Granger Korff’s two years’ service during 1980/81 with 1 Parachute Battalion at the height of the South African ‘bush war’ in South West Africa (Namibia) and Angola. Apart from the ‘standard’...
Биографии и мемуары, Военная документалистика и аналитика
Secret Soldier: The True Life Story of Israel's Greatest Commando
In this riveting autobiography, Colonel Muki Betser, Israel's premier special-warfare commander and counterterrorist for 25 years, recounts the inner workings of Israel's elite forces which until now no high-ranking military officer has been...
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Образовательная, прикладная, научно-популярная литература
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.
Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging...
Биографии и мемуары, Военная документалистика и аналитика
Embedded: A Marine Corps Advisor Inside the Iraqi Army
In his November 19, 2005 presidential address, President George W. Bush summarized U.S. military policy as, “Our situation can be summed up this way: as the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.” EMBEDDED offers a firsthand account by...
Ed Macy is an elite pilot, one of the few men qualified to fly Apache helicopters, the world’s deadliest fighting machines. This is his account of a fearless mission behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. After a brutal accident forced him out of the...