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Praise for Mike Guardia:¿¿meticulously researched, with facts verified by exhaustive sleuthing¿a fine work of investigative history.¿¿Military Writers Society of AmericaThe fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942, illuminating the white flags of surrender against the night time sky. Woefully outnumbered, outgunned, and ill-equipped, battered remnants of the American-Philippine army surrendered to the forces of the Rising Sun. Ye...

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Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, the newest land warfare system in the United States Army and Marine Corps, the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle has undeniably proved its value. Designed to meet the challenges of operating in a counterinsurgency environment, the MRAP has taken survivability to a new level. MRAPs are currently manufactured by three companies: BAE Systems, Navistar International Military Group, and Force Protectio...

With his parting words ¿I shall return, ¿ General MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain, Russell Volckmann, refused to surrender. He disappeared into the jungles of north Luzon and raised a Filipino army of over 22, 000 men. For the next three years he led a guerrilla war killing over 50, 000 Japanese enemy soldiers. At the same time he established radio contact with MacArthur¿s HQ in Austr...

In the opening days of Nazi Germany's Blitzkrieg campaigns, few aircraft could invoke as much terror as the Junkers Ju 87. Nicknamed the "Stuka" (an abbreviation of Sturzkampfflugzeug - the German term for "dive-bomber"), the Ju 87 was perhaps the most feared tactical bomber of the ETO. With its fixed landing gear and inverted gull wings, the Stuka was easily one of the most recognizable aircraft of the Blitzkrieg era. Although a sturdy and re...

In the mid-1960s, the Soviet Union unveiled the BMP-1, the first true infantry fighting vehicle. The BMP marked a significant departure from the traditional "armored personnel carrier", sporting a lower silhouette and a higher-caliber armament than rival APCs. This book examines the first time these Cold War icons clashed in the First Gulf War.

Examines the design, development and operational history of the Soviet Union's Cold War SPAAGs: the ZSU-37, ZSU-57-2, the infamous ZSU-23-4, and the 9K22 Tunguska. This study explores the history of the SPAAGs with revealing photographs, technical illustrations and detailed analysis.

As a new generation of main battle tanks came on line during the 1980s, neither the US nor USSR had the chance to pit them in combat. But once the Cold War between the superpowers waned, Iraq's Saddam Hussein provided that chance with his invasion of Kuwait. Finally the new US M1A1 tank would see how it fared against the vaunted Soviet-built T-72.

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With his parting words ¿I shall return, ¿ General MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain, Russell Volckmann, refused to surrender. He disappeared into the jungles of north Luzon and raised a Filipino army of over 22, 000 men. For the next three years he led a guerrilla war killing over 50, 000 Japanese enemy soldiers. At the same time he established radio contact with MacArthur¿s HQ in Austr...