“I died in Vietnam, but I didn’t even know it,” said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the country. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange—the first book ever written on the...
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This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a...
Two different wars were fought in Vietnam, the jungle-and-booby-trap one down south, and the WWII-like one up on the DMZ. “I was one of a handful whose Vietnam tour was evenly split between the First and Third Marine Divisions, and saw, firsthand,...
Автор: Fletcher David
Серия: New Vanguard #133
Язык: английский
Год: 2007
Статус: Закончена
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Amongst the first ever mass-produced tanks in history, the British Mk IV has been classified as one of the most successful heavy tanks to have fought in World War I.
Mechanically similar to its predecessors, the Mark IV embodied various...
Военная история, Военное дело, военная техника и вооружение
World War II Infantry: In Colour Photographs
Автор: Mirouze Laurent
Серия: Europa Militaria #2
Язык: английский
Год: 1999
Статус: Закончена
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This edition of the Europa Militaria Series is the result of live photo sessions in which actors model the uniforms of infantry and weaponry of World War I infantrymen -- both Allied and Axis. All of the equipment and settings are authentic and all...
This is the story of one ship, from her birth in a small shipyard near Rochester to her death fifty years later in a breaker's yard at Rotherhithe (1782-1836). The ship was called Bellerophon, after the Greek hero who tamed the winged horse Pegasus,...
A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the...
Автор: Campbell John M.
Серия: American bomber aircraft #2
Язык: английский
Год: 1997
Статус: Закончена
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The famed B-29 Superfortress is presented in this all new collection of World War II and Korean War era photographs. Many of the 850+ photographs appear here for the first time and are identified as to unit and location. John Campbell is also the...
This is a remarkable and unique story of Jim Brigginshaw. Having been captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942, Jim was first sent to work in Burma, to build what has become known as the Death Railway. Unlike many of his...
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Военная история
Soviet tanks and combat vehicles of World War Two
Steven Zaloga is a senior analyst for Teal Group Corp., an aerospace consulting firm. His professional specialization is the commercial and technological aspects of the international trade in missiles, precision guided munitions, and unmanned aerial...