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Military brats : legacies of childhood inside the fortress / by Wertsch, Mary Edwards.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Children of military personnel; Children of military personnel; Children of military personnel; Sociology, Military;
© c2006., Brightwell Publishing,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Great military battles / by Falls, Cyril,1888-1971;
Subjects: Battles.; Military history.;
© c1969., Spring Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Helicopters : an illustrated history of their impact / by McGowen, Stanley S.,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-305) and index.Early developments, 1900-1939 -- Historical background -- Limited successes -- Autogyros and gyroplanes -- The first successful helicopters in Europe -- Successes in the United States -- World War II, 1939-1945 -- Sikorsky XR-5 and XR-6 -- Frank Nicholas Piasecki -- From military to commercial helicopter -- Stanley Hiller, Jr. -- Charles Kaman -- Korea and the Cold War, 1946-1961 -- Bell helicopters -- Hiller helicopters -- Piasecki helicopter corporation -- The S-55 helicopter -- Westland helicopters -- Nicolai I. Kamov -- French Indochina -- Vietnam, the Middle East, and the face-off in Europe, 1961-1975 -- The United States in Vietnam -- NATO -- The Middle East -- Warsaw Pact -- Technological evolution, 1976-1990 -- NATO combat support helicopters -- Attack helicopters -- Combat service support helicopters -- Warsaw Pact -- Desert Shield/Storm and beyond, 1990-2003 -- Combat support : passenger helicopters -- Combat service support helicopters -- Attack helicopters -- Tilt rotor aircraft -- NOTAR -- Helicopter specifications.Helicopters: An Illustrated History of Their Impact covers the development of helicopters from a concept in Leonardo daVinci's mind to the first successful machines in the early 1900s to the latest tilt-rotor designs. Time and again, in a story of constant innovation, designers answered the concerns of military planners with more maneuverable, more capable rotorcraft. With expert analysis and specific details of every significant model ever used, Helicopters shows how these once denigrated machines became essential to a variety of missions (reconnaissance, transport, attack, support, evacuation, urban combat, quick strikes behind enemy lines, and more). In addition, the book looks at the impact of rotorcraft beyond the military, including their ever-widening role in emergency medical care, police work, traffic control, agriculture, news reporting, and more.
Subjects: Military helicopters.;
© ©2005., ABC-CLIO,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The US military / by Berlatsky, Noah,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198) and index."This title addresses controversies related to the US military including: Should the US military budget be reduced? In what conflicts should the United States intervene? What are US military personnel issues? How is the United States caring for its veterans?" -- from publisher's website.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A stillness at Appomattox / [electronic resource]. by Catton, Bruce.; Kramer, Michael.;
Narrator: Michael Kramer.Undoubtedly Bruce Catton's most brilliant book, A Stillness at Appomattox won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. Catton, our foremost Civil War historian, recounts the most spectacular conflicts between Grant and Lee and details the end of hope for the Confederacy. Utilizing various collections of unpublished letters written by soldiers, personal diaries of spouses and relatives, memoirs of soldiers and their families, and official war records, Catton follows Grant's campaigns from early 1864 to the end of the war, detailing many crucial battles along the way.Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 437687 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; History.; Military.;
© 2014., Tantor Audio,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=1940556 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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My promised land : [electronic resource] : The triumph and tragedy of Israel. by Shavit, Ari.; Boehmer, Paul.;
Narrator: Paul Boehmer.Ari Shavit’s riveting work, now updated with new material, draws on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family’s story, to create a narrative larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and of profound historical dimension. As he examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, Shavit asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can it survive?  Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. Shavit’s analysis of Israeli history provides a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today’s global political landscape. -- provided by Amazon.com.Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; History.; Military.;
© 2013., Random House Audio,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=986693 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Women in intelligence : [electronic resource] : The hidden history of two world wars. by Fry, Helen.; Dawson, Gemma.;
Narrator: Gemma Dawson.A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both world wars, far from being a small part of covert operations, women ran spy networks and escape lines, parachuted behind enemy lines, and interrogated prisoners. And, back in Bletchley and Whitehall, women's vital administrative work in MI offices kept the British war engine running. In this major, panoramic history, Helen Fry looks at the rich and varied work women undertook as civilians and in uniform. From spies in the Belgian network "La Dame Blanche," knitting coded messages into jumpers, to those who interpreted aerial images and even ran entire sections, Fry shows just how crucial women were in the intelligence mission. Filled with hitherto unknown stories, Women in Intelligence places new research on record for the first time and showcases the inspirational contributions of these remarkable women.Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; History.; Military.;
© 2024., Tantor Audio,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=10236435 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Living hell : [electronic resource] : The dark side of the Civil War. by Adams, Michael C.C.; Crawford, Mitch.;
Narrator: Mitch Crawford.Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. In Living Hell, Adams tries a different tack, clustering the voices of myriad actual participants on the firing line or in the hospital ward to create a virtual historical reenactment. Neither film nor reenactment can fully capture the hard truth of the four-year conflict. Living Hell presents a stark portrait of the human costs of the Civil War and gives listeners a more accurate appreciation of its lasting consequences. Adams examines the sharp contrast between the expectations of recruits versus the realities of communal living, the enormous problems of dirt and exposure, poor diet, malnutrition, and disease. He describes the slaughter produced by close-order combat, the difficulties of cleaning up the battlefields, and the resulting psychological damage survivors experienced. Drawing extensively on letters and memoirs of individual soldiers, Adams assembles vivid accounts of the distress Confederate and Union soldiers faced daily: sickness, exhaustion, hunger, devastating injuries, and makeshift hospitals where saws were often the medical instrument of choice.Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; History.; Military.;
© 2023., Tantor Audio,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=9975379 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Six days of war : [electronic resource] : June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East. by Oren, Michael B.; Vance, Simon.;
Narrator: Simon Vance.In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as "the Setback." Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen, and largely unwanted by both sides so transformed the world. The Yom Kippur War, the war in Lebanon, the Camp David accords, the controversy over Jerusalem and Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the intifada, and the rise of Palestinian terror are all part of the outcome of those six days of intense Arab-Israeli fighting in the summer of 1967. Writing with a novelist's command of narrative and a historian's grasp of fact and motive, Michael B. Oren spotlights all the participants -- Arab, Israeli, Soviet, and American -- that were involved in this earth-shaking clash. Drawing on thousands of top-secret documents and exclusive personal interviews, he recreates the regional and international context that, by the late 1960s, virtually assured an Arab-Israeli conflagration. A towering work of history and an enthralling human narrative, Six Days of War is the most important book on the Middle East conflict to appear in a generation.Text Difficulty 9 - Text Difficulty 12Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; History.; Military.;
© 2005., Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=97053 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Dead wake : [electronic resource] : The last crossing of the Lusitania. by Larson, Erik.; Brick, Scott.;
Narrator: Scott Brick."On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. He knew, moreover, that his ship-- the fastest then in service-- could outrun any threat. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces, both grand and achingly small-- hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more-- all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history"-- provided by publisher.Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 367958 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; History.; Military.;
© 2015., Random House Audio,
On-line resources: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=1771251 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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