epub |eng | 2008-12-13 | Author:Clyde Burleson [BURLESON, CLYDE]

16 August 2000—0800 Hours—Barents Sea The fourth day dawned with a prediction of more storms. While that was disappointing, spirits rose with the arrival of another DSRV. This was a ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Richard Rhodes

The target sphere could be simply welded to the muzzle of a cannon; then the cylinder, which might weigh about a hundred pounds, could be fired up the barrel like ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-12 | Author:Pat Ware

The budget allocated to Vickers for production of the A11 infantry tank Mk I called for a maximum price of £6,000, which restricted the designers to producing a two-man tank. ...

epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:George Weller [Weller, George]

XI The Defense of Australia By his own admission, Weller arrived in Australia scared and filled with “guilt about the people left behind.” (At least one colleague “escaped and went ...

mobi |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Dickie, Iain & Jestice, Phyllis & Jorgensen, Christer & Rice, Rob S. & Dougherty, Martin J. [Dickie, Iain]

Deadly Melee Hawke’s 100-gun flagship, the Royal George, bore down on the 70-gun Superbe and sank it with a single, massive broadside at the waterline. It sank with all hands, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Eric Schlosser [Schlosser, Eric]

Epilogue The sociologist Charles B. Perrow began his research on dangerous technologies in August 1979, after the partial meltdown of the core at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. ...

epub |eng | 2009-10-30 | Author:Neil Sheehan [Sheehan, Neil]

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-07-31 | Author:Hank Reinhardt [Reinhardt, Hank]

MAIN GAUCHE The rapier was often accompanied by a dagger termed a "main gauche," for the hand it was used in, gauche being French for "left," main for "hand." Back ...

epub |eng | | Author:Richard Rhodes

The target sphere could be simply welded to the muzzle of a cannon; then the cylinder, which might weigh about a hundred pounds, could be fired up the barrel like ...

epub, mobi | | 2004-03-18 | Author:Rodger W. Claire

Ever since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had landed in Tehran in February 1979, Saddam had kept a jaundiced eye to his east. Socialist and secular, Hussein distrusted the bearded, fanatically religious ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Mike Cumpston

Chapter 9 Precursors and Peers ACCURATE SINGLESHOT PISTOLS The Pedersoli replica of the .44 caliber LePage target pistol has a single-phase set trigger. The group was fired from one hand ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Neufeld, Michael J. [Neufeld, Michael J.]

HIMMLER TAKES AN INTEREST Besides Speer, one other top Nazi leader began to pay close attention to the Army rocket program: the Reichsführer-SS, Heinrich Himmler. He had been informed of ...

mobi, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Malcolm Potts

Civilians and Combatants Sometimes, the ingroup mentality of honor and chivalry we encountered in chapter 3 tempers the outgroup dehumanization of the enemy. In 690 B.C., after capturing Jerusalem, the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Kiernan, Denise [Kiernan, Denise]

CHAPTER 10 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Curiosity and Silence A three-year concentration of curiosity should be quite a potent brew for the average woman. —Vi Warren, Oak Ridge Journal ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-24 | Author:Richard Preston

Panic in the Gray Zone JANUARY 12, 2000 Hensley was working alone in her blue suit in hot suite AA4, near the center of the Institute. It was about three ...