More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the...
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Биографии и мемуары, Военная документалистика и аналитика
Cold War Command: The Dramatic Story of a Nuclear Submariner
The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy’s submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the ‘Silent Service,’ remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to...
Биографии и мемуары, Военная документалистика и аналитика
Comanche Six: Company Commander in Vietnam
The young captain saw war as man’s ultimate competitive sport. It was this realization that brought James Estep back to Vietnam for a third tour — this time as a company commander in the famed 1st Cavalry Division. Call-sign “Comanche Six,”...
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...
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Зарубежная образовательная литература, зарубежная прикладная
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...
The true story of one man’s determination to master the world’s deadliest helicopter and of a split-second decision that changed the face of modern warfare.
Ed Macy bent every rule in the book to get to where he wanted to be: on Ops in the...
Биографии и мемуары, Военная документалистика и аналитика
In the Fire of the Eastern Front: The Experiences of a Dutch Waffen-SS Volunteer, 1941-45
• Extraordinary story of a Dutch volunteer in the Waffen-SS
• Vivid details on SS training and combat on the Eastern Front
• Account of the little-known siege of Breslau in early 1945
Dutch SS accounts are very rare, particularly...
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,...
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...
Russian annexation of Crimea and the subsequent air campaign over Syria took the world by surprise. The capabilities and efficiency of Moscow’s armed forces during both operations signalled to the world that Russia was back in business as a...