This sequence of authentic and audacious war-time escapes keeps the reader spell-bound from start to finish. Garry Willmott has unearthed a series of escapes which would be the envy of Houdini. From the chilling history of escapes from Colditz, escapes from comparatively humane British POW camps and from a Prisoner-of-War camp in Australia, these are all carefully selected to enthral us with the ingenuity and brazen boldness of the escapees. Eac ...
В многотомнике "Командиры дивизий Красной Армии 1921-1941 гг." собраны биографии всех командиров и временно исполняющих должности командиров дивизий Красной Армии с 1921 года по 1941 год. Биографии составлены по данным УПК и списков РККА, многие публикуются впервые! В 42-й том вошли биографии командиров кавалерийских дивизий с фамилиями на букву К.
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В многотомнике "Командиры дивизий Красной Армии 1921-1941 гг." собраны биографии всех командиров и временно исполняющих должности командиров дивизий Красной Армии с 1921 года по 1941 год. Биографии составлены по данным УПК и списков РККА, многие публикуются впервые! В 41-й том вошли биографии командиров кавалерийских дивизий с фамилиями на буквы Д,Е, Ж, З,И.
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“The play nicely combines Pinterian menace with caustic political commentary.” –Time “Acerbic, elusive, poetic and chilling, the writing is demanding in a rarefied manner. Its implications are both affecting and disturbing.” –Los Angeles Times “In his exquisitely written dramatic lament for the decline of high culture. . . . [Shawn] offers a definition of the self that shoul ...
В многотомнике "Командиры дивизий Красной Армии 1921-1941 гг." собраны биографии всех командиров и временно исполняющих должности командиров дивизий Красной Армии с 1921 года по 1941 год. Биографии составлены по данным УПК и списков РККА, многие публикуются впервые! В 40-й том вошли биографии командиров кавалерийских дивизий с фамилиями на буквы В, Г.
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Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force documents the rapid development of nuclear ballistic missiles in the United States and their equally swift demise after the Cuban Missile Crisis, revealing how these drastic changes negatively influenced both the Air Force and the missile community. David W. Bath contends that the struggle to create and control nuclear ballistic missiles threatened both the dominan ...
A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy is a deliberately compact introductory work aimed at junior seafarers, those who make decisions affecting the sea services, and those who educate seafarers and decision-makers. It introduces readers to the main theoretical ideas that shape how statesmen and commanders make and execute maritime strategy in times of peace and war. Following in the spirit of Bernard Brodie's Layman's Guide to Naval Strat ...
This is the history of the founding in 1882 and operation through two world wars of America's first permanent intelligence agency, the Office of Naval Intelligence. In this study Dr. Jeffery M. Dorwart shows how and why a tiny late 19th century U.S. Navy bureau created to collect information about foreign warship design became during two world wars a complex and sometimes troubled domestic and worldwide intelligence agency. More significant ...
For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves or to the public at large. As neither a land-based organization like the Army nor an entirely sea-based one like the Navy, the Corps' missions overlapped with both institutions. This work argues that the Marine Corps could not and would not settle on a miss ...
