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This worldwide reference guide to over 300 Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard installations includes information on locations, climates, housing and schools, personal services, recreational opportunities and local attractions, as well as detailed maps and base information. An ideal companion for servicemembers, defense contractors and military travelers.
3) Tailspin
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"World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. Captured by the Germans, he survived a harrowing eighteen months as a prisoner of war, including a six-hundred-mile death march in 1945 across Central Europe. When Gene returned home, he kept those memories locked up for nearly seventy years. His nine children knew little of their dad's war story. But when John, a young history teacher, learns of Gene's...
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In September 1961, another chapter should have been written into the annals, but it is a tale that lay shrouded in dust for years. The men of A Company, Thirty-Fifth Irish Infantry Battalion, arrived in the Congo as a United Nations contingent to help keep the peace. For many it would be their first trip outside their native shores. Some of the troops were teenage boys, their army-issue hobnailed boots still unbroken. They had never heard a shot fired...
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Este libro presenta una memoria histórica del conflicto armado colombiano reconstruida a partir de archivos militares inéditos. El uso de las piezas producidas por las Fuerzas Militares entre 1958 y el 2016, así como de aquellas incautadas a los grupos armados ilegales, permite presentar una versión histórica que aporta nuevas respuestas a viejas cuestiones sobre cuándo y cómo surgió la confrontación armada entre el Estado y los comunistas...
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"In September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and initiated World War II, a strong strain of isolationism existed in Congress and across the country. The U.S. Army stood at fewer than 200,000 men--unprepared to defend the country, much less carry the fight to Europe and the Far East. And yet, less than a year after Pearl Harbor, the American army led the Allied invasion of North Africa, beginning the campaign that would defeat Germany, and...
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Extrait : "De toutes les influences capables de concourir à la formation d'une bonne armée, la plus efficace est sans contredit celle du chef qui la commande : "Les meilleures troupes", — disait Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène, — "ont été les Carthaginois sous Annibal, les Romains sous les Scipions, les Macédoniens sous Alexandre, les Prussiens sous Frédéric...""
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Ritland started his own company training and supplying dogs for the SEAL teams, U.S. Government, and Department of Defense. In "Trident K9 Warriors" he gives readers an inside look at these elite canines--who they are, how they are trained, and the extreme missions they undertake saving countless lives, asking for little in the way of reward.
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