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Bombroad T3

Bombroad T3

Auteure: Michel Koeniguer

Nombre de pages: 50

1972. La guerre n'est plus qu'une plaie qui n'en finit pas de saigner, enterrant les illusions des années soixante. Nixon a retiré pratiquement toutes les troupes au sol, ne laissant que des conseillers et notre puissance aérienne au service d'un Sud Viêt Nam agonisant. Avec l'assaut du Nord Viêt Nam contre son voisin du Sud en mai débute l'opération Linebacker, une campagne de bombardement contre le Nord. Un peu tard pour gagner la guerre, mais pas trop pour que je joue mon dernier round dans le ciel de ce que les Français appelait l'Indochine...

SPIERS AND SURENNE'S FRENCH AND ENGLISH PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY.

SPIERS AND SURENNE'S FRENCH AND ENGLISH PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY.

Auteure: A. Spiers.

Nombre de pages: 1366
The Bombing of Dublin's North Strand by German Luftwaffe

The Bombing of Dublin's North Strand by German Luftwaffe

Auteure: Kevin C. Kearns

Nombre de pages: 628

On the Whit bank holiday weekend of 1941, the neutral Irish capital was suddenly and inexplicably bombed by the German Luftwaffe. On a gloriously starry night four bombs fell, the last and most devastating at precisely 2:05 a.m. on 31 May. There was a thunderous explosion and the earth quaked. Tremors were felt as far away as Enniskerry and Mullingar. Panic and pandemonium reigned in a "city seized with fear". Destruction was astonishing – homes and shops in the North Strand were largely demolished, 2,250 buildings in the city suffered some bomb damage, over forty people were killed, about 100 seriously injured, many more wounded. Hospitals and morgues filled within hours. Almost 2,000 people were rendered homeless refugees. It would later be determined that in terms of destructive performance a monstrous "perfect bomb" had done the deed. For two-thirds of a century, no book was written on what the Evening Herald proclaimed a "Night of Horror". Later called a "seismic event" in Dublin's history. Finally, near the end of the century both the Irish Military Archive and Dublin City Archive declassified their documents on the bombing – some stamped "Secret" for sixty years. At...

Stalin and the Bomb

Stalin and the Bomb

Auteure: David Holloway

Nombre de pages: 508

The classic and “utterly engrossing” study of Stalin’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb during the Cold War by the renowned political scientist and historian (Foreign Affairs). For forty years the U.S.-Russian nuclear arms race dominated world politics, yet the Soviet nuclear establishment was shrouded in secrecy. Then, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, David Holloway pulled back the Iron Curtain with his “marvelous, groundbreaking study” Stalin and the Bomb (The New Yorker). How did the Soviet Union build its atomic and hydrogen bombs? What role did espionage play? How did the American atomic monopoly affect Stalin's foreign policy? What was the relationship between Soviet nuclear scientists and the country's political leaders? David Holloway answers these questions by tracing the dramatic story of Soviet nuclear policy from developments in physics in the 1920s to the testing of the hydrogen bomb and the emergence of nuclear deterrence in the mid-1950s. This magisterial history throws light on Soviet policy at the height of the Cold War, illuminates a central element of the Stalinist system, and puts into perspective the tragic legacy of this...

The Aleutians 1942–43

The Aleutians 1942–43

Auteure: Brian Lane Herder

Nombre de pages: 97

It is often forgotten that during World War II, the Japanese managed to successfully invade and conquer a precious part of American home soil – the first time this had happened since 1815. Capturing the Aleutian Islands, located in Alaska territory, was seen by the Japanese as vital in order to shore up their northern defensive perimeter. Fighting in the Aleutians was uniquely brutal. It is a barren, rugged archipelago of icy mountains and thick bogs, with a climate of constant snow, freezing rains and windstorms. These geographic conditions tended to neutralize traditional American strengths such as air power, radar, naval bombardment and logistics. The campaign to recapture the islands required extensive combined-ops planning, and inflicted on the United States its second highest casualty rate in the Pacific theatre. Featuring the largest Japanese banzai charge of the war, first use of pre-battle battleship bombardment in the Pacific and the battle at the Komandorski Islands, this is the full story of the forgotten battle to liberate American soil from the Japanese.

Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954

Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954

Auteure: United States. Internal Revenue Service

Nombre de pages: 1146
An Atlas of Irish History

An Atlas of Irish History

Auteure: Ruth Dudley Edwards , Bridget Hourican

Nombre de pages: 320

Combining over 100 beautifully crafted maps, charts and graphs with a narrative packed with facts and information, An Atlas of Irish History provides coverage of the main political, military, economic, religious and social changes that have occurred in Ireland and among the Irish abroad over the past two millennia. Ruth Dudley Edwards and Bridget Hourican use the combination of thematic narrative and visual aids to examine and illustrate issues such as: the Viking invasions of Ireland the Irish in Britain pre- and post-famine agriculture population change twentieth-century political affiliations. This third edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to include coverage of the many changes that have occurred in Ireland and among its people overseas. Taking into consideration the main issues that have developed since 1981, and adding a number of new maps and graphs, this new edition also includes an informative and detailed section on the troubles that have been a feature of Irish life since 1969. An Atlas of Irish History is an invaluable resource for students of Irish history and politics and the general reader alike.

Ludwigshafen-Oppau Works, Ludwigshafen, A.R., Germany

Ludwigshafen-Oppau Works, Ludwigshafen, A.R., Germany

Auteure: United States Strategic Bombing Survey

Nombre de pages: 712
450th Bomb Group (H)

450th Bomb Group (H)

Nombre de pages: 138

The 450th Bomb Group (H) contained the 720th, 721st, 722nd, and 723rd squdrons.

Revolution, Counterrevolution and Assassination Through World War II

Revolution, Counterrevolution and Assassination Through World War II

Auteure: Robert C. Cottrell

Nombre de pages: 221

Since the French Revolution, the quest for revolutionary transformation and the fear of such change became deeply ingrained in the global landscape through World War II. Modern revolutions inspired counterrevolutions that strove to turn back time to an allegedly purer, finer, more moral period than the upheaval and anarchy linked to a revolutionary epoch. Revolutions often occurred through violence, and entailed a disruption of existing social, economic and political orders. Counterrevolutions were equally guilty, and frequently more so, of horrific bloodletting in the name of restoring law and order, often by shredding legal and ethical norms. Drawing from a vast array of sources both primary and secondary, this first of a two-volume set presents a highly detailed narrative of an unholy trinity: revolution, counterrevolution and assassination. Combining intellectual, political, social and cultural history, this book highlights international protagonists, movements and ideas supporting the radical or reactionary upheaval of society, and the means that have been used to do so.

Report of War Plants and Services in Urgency Rating Bands III Thru VII.

Report of War Plants and Services in Urgency Rating Bands III Thru VII.

Auteure: United States. War Production Board

Nombre de pages: 644
Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986

Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986

Nombre de pages: 968
Vanishing America

Vanishing America

Auteure: Miles A. Powell

Nombre de pages: 260

Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservation efforts became entangled with racial anxieties—specifically the fear that forces of modern civilization, unless checked, would sap white America’s vigor and stamina. Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U.S. westward expansion, coupled with industry’s ever-growing hunger for natural resources, presaged the disappearance of Indian peoples. Yet, as the frontier drew to a close, some naturalists chronicling the loss of animal and plant populations began to worry that white Americans might soon share the Indians’ presumed fate. Miles Powell explores how early conservationists such as George Perkins Marsh, William Temple Hornaday, and Aldo Leopold became convinced that the continued vitality of America’s “Nordic” and “Anglo-Saxon” races depended on preserving the wilderness. Fears over the destiny of white Americans drove some conservationists to embrace scientific racism, ...

Planning and Design of Roads, Airbases, and Heliports in the Theater of Operations

Planning and Design of Roads, Airbases, and Heliports in the Theater of Operations

Nombre de pages: 826
A Long Long War

A Long Long War

Auteure: Ken Wharton

Nombre de pages: 524

The author of Bloody Belfast delivers “a vivid and unforgettable record” of the Northern Irish conflict that captures the “true horrors of war” (Best of British). There are stories from some of the most seminal moments during the troubles in Northern Ireland—the Crossmaglen firefights, the 1988 corporals killings, the Ballygawley bus bombing, and more—told from the perspective of the British soldiers who served there between 1969 and 1998. This was a war against terrorists who knew no mercy or compassion; a war involving sectarian hatred and violent death. Over 1,000 British lives were lost in a place just thirty minutes flying time away from the mainland. The British Army was sent into Northern Ireland on August 14, 1969, by the Wilson government as law and order had broken down and the population (mainly Catholics) and property were at grave risk. Between then and 1998, some 300,000 British troops served in Northern Ireland. This is their story—in their own words—from first to last. Receiving a remarkable amount of cooperation from Northern Ireland veterans eager to tell their story, the author has compiled a vivid and unforgettable record. Their...

Dictionnaire général français-anglais, et anglais-français, nouvellement rédigé d'après les dictionnaires français de l'Académie, de Laveaux, de Boiste, de Bescherelle, etc

Dictionnaire général français-anglais, et anglais-français, nouvellement rédigé d'après les dictionnaires français de l'Académie, de Laveaux, de Boiste, de Bescherelle, etc

Auteure: Alexandre Spiers

Nombre de pages: 642
Israel-Palestine

Israel-Palestine

Auteure: Eliezer Ben-rafael

Nombre de pages: 256

This analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict offers a wide-ranging theoretical framework to approach various aspects of terrorism, guerilla and antiguerilla warfare, the peace process, and other complex issues. The distinction between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that of the Jewish State and its neighbors has been neglected in past writings. The author suggests that this distinction is the key to understanding not only the extent of international support obtained by the PLO, but the setbacks and the ability to withstand them, that are characteristic of Israel's position. Shofar

Fifty Years Among the New Words

Fifty Years Among the New Words

Auteure: John Algeo , Adele S. Algeo

Nombre de pages: 274

This book, first published in 1992, is a unique repository of language use from 1941-91.

Zeppelin Inferno

Zeppelin Inferno

Auteure: Ian Castle

Nombre de pages: 468

At the beginning of 1916, as the world entered the second full year of global conflict, the cities, towns and villages of Britain continued to lay vulnerable to aerial bombardment. Throughout that period German Zeppelin airships and seaplanes had come and gone at will, their most testing opposition provided by the British weather as the country’s embryonic defences struggled to come to terms with this first ever assault from the air. Britain’s civilians were now standing on the frontline — the Home Front — like the soldiers who had marched off to war. But early in 1916 responsibility for Britain’s aerial defence passed from the Admiralty to the War Office and, as German air attacks intensified, new ideas and plans made dramatic improvements to Britain’s aerial defence capability. While this new system could give early warning of approaching raiders, there was a lack of effective weaponry with which to engage them when they arrived. Behind the scenes, however, three individuals, each working independently, were striving for a solution. The results of their work were spectacular; it lifted the mood of the nation and dramatically changed the way this campaign was fought...

BDM - 2023-2024

BDM - 2023-2024

Auteure: Collectif

Nombre de pages: 1710

23e édition revue et schtroumpfée ! 23e édition revue et schtroumpfée !

Defense's Nuclear Agency 1947-1997 (DTRA History Series)

Defense's Nuclear Agency 1947-1997 (DTRA History Series)

Auteure: Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Nombre de pages: 476

This official history was originally printed in very small numbers in 2002. "Defense's Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997" traces the development of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP), and its descendant government organizations, from its original founding in 1947 to 1997. After the disestablishment of the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) in 1947, AFSWP was formed to provide military training in nuclear weapons' operations. Over the years, its sequential descendant organizations have been the Defense Atomic Support Agency (DASA) from 1959 to 1971, the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) from 1971 to 1996, and the Defense Special Weapons Agency (DSWA) from 1996 to 1998. In 1998, DSWA, the On-Site Inspection Agency, the Defense Technology Security Administration, and selected elements of the Office of Secretary of Defense were combined to form the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

Anarchy and anarchists, a history of the Red terror and the social revolution in America and Europe ... The Chicago Haymarket conspiracy

Anarchy and anarchists, a history of the Red terror and the social revolution in America and Europe ... The Chicago Haymarket conspiracy

Auteure: Michael J. Schaack

Nombre de pages: 710
An East End Legacy

An East End Legacy

Auteure: Colin Holmes , Anne J Kershen

Nombre de pages: 263

An East End Legacy is a memorial volume for William J Fishman, whose seminal works on the East End of London in the late nineteenth century have served as a vital starting point for much of the later work on the various complex web of relations in that quarter of the capital. A variety of leading scholars utilise the insight of Fishman’s work to present a wide range of insights into the historical characters and events of the East End. The book’s themes include local politics; anti-alienism, anti-Semitism and war; and culture and society. In pursuing these topics, the volume examines in great depth the social, political, religious and cultural changes that have taken place in the area over the past 120 years, many of which remain both significant and relevant. In addition, it illustrates East London’s links with other parts of the world including Europe and America and those territories "beyond the oceans." This book will prove valuable reading for researchers and readers interested in Victorian and twentieth century British history, politics and culture.

100 Years of Irish Republican Violence: 1916-2016

100 Years of Irish Republican Violence: 1916-2016

Auteure: John Morrison , Paul Gill

Nombre de pages: 284

At Easter of 1916 an armed insurrection, launched by paramilitary republicans, took place in Ireland. When the General Post Office in Dublin was seized on Easter Monday, the rebels declared a free Irish Republic, independent from Great Britain. In the century that has passed since the Easter Rising, each generation of Irish republicans has mounted their own paramilitary campaign to bring about an independent united Ireland, from the War of Independence, to The Troubles, and right up to the modern-day dissident republican violence. By bringing together a range of researchers, from across a variety of academic disciplines, this edited volume analyses the one hundred years of Irish republican violence from 1916 to 2016. The assembled authors assess the evolution of paramilitary violence through a variety of themes, including the IRA from 1919-21, the case of ‘the Disappeared’, the relationship between counterterrorism killings and Provisional IRA bombings, and the analysis of modern-day violent dissident republican statements. Bringing the volume to a close are two long-form interviews with two key actors within the Troubles, Danny Morrison and Billy Hutchinson. In these...

Call Center Continuity Planning

Call Center Continuity Planning

Auteure: Jim Rowan

Nombre de pages: 442

A disruption in your call center operation can conceivably cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars. And multiple disruptions can cost in the millions. Call Center Continuity Planning shows you how to plan for - and avoid - service interruptions through disasters large and small. This book will show you how to deal with everything from power outag

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