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It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy by Abrashoff Michael
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-10-14 | Author:Abrashoff, Michael [Abrashoff, Michael]

CHAPTER EIGHT TAKE CALCULATED RISKS THE U.S. NAVY IS NO MORE FOND OF PEOPLE WHO GO out on a limb than is any other bureaucracy. In fact, taking a risk ...
( Category: Leadership March 4,2016 )
The Desert War by Alan Moorehead
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Moorehead [Moorehead, Alan]

Not very practical for men campaigning through the jungle perhaps; but a good regimen for camp. I heard no one suggest that the Japanese soldier looked unfit. For a few ...
( Category: World War II March 4,2016 )
Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era by Friedman Norman
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Friedman, Norman [Friedman, Norman]

In 1942 drastic modifications were ordered to clear air arcs in existing cruisers. For the Salt Lake City class that meant greatly reducing top-hamper, in the form of the multi-level ...
( Category: Naval March 2,2016 )
America's War Machine by James McCartney
epub |eng | | Author:James McCartney

* * * THE MOST EXPENSIVE WEAPONS IN THE WORLD To identify the most expensive weapons in the world, Douglas A. McIntyre and Michael B. Sauter of the Web site ...
( Category: History & Theory March 2,2016 )
Swarm Troopers: How small drones will conquer the word by David Hambling
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-09 | Author:David Hambling [Hambling, David]

Seeing through Walls Radar has always been too big to fit on small drones, but predictably enough, it is also shrinking to fit. Much of this is due to the ...
( Category: Aviation March 1,2016 )
GUERRILLAS IN THE MIST: Expanded and Updated by R.P. Newman
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-04 | Author:R.P. Newman

Attack Positions Attack positions are used only occasionally during night ops, and normally they are only occupied for brief periods of time due to their propensity for suffering spoiling attacks. ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 1,2016 )
Patton at the Battle of the Bulge by Leo Barron
epub |eng | 2014-10-12 | Author:Leo Barron

These comments [McMahon’s and Abrams’s] motivated me so the barn was set afire with a grenade to chase the enemy away so we could move forward without being under fire ...
( Category: World War II February 29,2016 )
SS On trial by Carruthers Bob;
epub |eng | 2014-02-23 | Author:Carruthers, Bob;

I do not think I need trouble with the rest of that letter. It states that the inhabitants of the concentration camp are almost exclusively criminal types. THE PRESIDENT: Mr. ...
( Category: World War II February 29,2016 )
Voyage Of The Damned by Thomas Gordon & Morgan-Witts Max
epub |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Thomas, Gordon & Morgan-Witts, Max

Robert Hoffman found Purser Mueller in his office, explained that the captain had granted shore leave, and suggested that a launch filled with crew should go ashore that evening. “Would ...
( Category: Holocaust February 29,2016 )
Gestapo on Trial by Carruthers Bob;
epub |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Carruthers, Bob;

The interior of the Gestapo Headquarters in Prinz-Albrecht-Str, Berlin, 1934. A. The Domestic Intelligence Service was an institution of the Party, but it did not belong to the organisation of ...
( Category: World War II February 29,2016 )
Underworld London by Catharine Arnold
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Catharine Arnold [Arnold, Catharine]

Pentonville had been designed as a ‘convict academy’ where specially selected prisoners would undergo a period of moral instruction before transportation; they would also learn a trade that would provide ...
( Category: England February 22,2016 )
The World in Conflict by The Economist
epub |eng | | Author:The Economist

But he added: We have to hope that this announcement doesn’t cause a more radical wing to emerge, as happened during the peace process in Northern Ireland. Georgia Situated between ...
( Category: Specific Topics February 22,2016 )
The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach by McManus John C
mobi |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:McManus, John C. [McManus, John C.]

Aboard the Ancon, General Huebner was like a caged lion. Surrounded by his staff in a command room, he was desperate for information. Aside from the terse radio messages from ...
( Category: World War II February 17,2016 )
The Americans on D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion by Morgan Martin K. A
mobi |eng | 2014-05-15 | Author:Morgan, Martin K. A. [Morgan, Martin K. A.]

Leonard G. “Bud” Lomell, seen here when he was a Staff Sergeant in the 76th Infantry Division in early 1943, was serving as the First Sergeant of D Company, 2nd ...
( Category: United States February 16,2016 )
Charles I (Penguin Monarchs): An Abbreviated Life by Mark Kishlansky
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Mark Kishlansky [Kishlansky, Mark]

5 Reform and Rebellion The implications of the Scottish invasion sunk in slowly. Initially Charles believed that he could reinvigorate his forces and revive his cause. All he needed was ...
( Category: Europe February 15,2016 )

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