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This book was written by men and women who as participants in the Battle of Berlin gained a unique and poignant view of the last days and hours of the Second World War.Its authors include the late Marshal Konev, one of the war's outstanding generals, who also contributed the preface, the writer Vsevolod Vishnevsky, who was present at the surrender negotiations, the poet Vassily Subbotin, who took part in the assault on the Reichstag, and the j...

Undoubtedly the thing we love and cherish most about the little wild-wood singer is his song. But the songs, what of them! Why is the singer recorded in all the books, but never - or hardly ever - his song? Well, the question is a difficult one to answer without finding fault with some one, so it would be best to make this little volume furnish the response. The volume is literally a field-book filled with the musical sayings of American birds.

No experience etched itself more deeply into Air Force thinking than the air campaigns over North Vietnam. Two decades later in the deserts of Southwest Asia, American airmen were able to avoid the gradualism that cost so many lives and planes in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Readers should come away from this book with a sympathetic understanding of the men who bombed North Vietnam. Those airmen handled tough problems in ways that ultimately...

The general purpose of this handbook is to prepare scientists, engineers, and technicians of the U.S. Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command (DARCOM) for increasing use of the International Systems of Units (SI) or, as it is frequently referred to, the "metric system." The specific objectives are to give DARCOM personnel (1) the tools required to convert the units of physical quantities and equations to SI units, (2) the information n...

On 10 November 1775 the Second Continental Congress authorized the raising of two battalions of Marines. From this small beginning we have seen the United States Marine Corps grow into a powerful force for the nation's security. In this volume, through the actions and words of the participants, we read of a small Marine force which promptly challenged Great Britain's control on both land and sea. Our first amphibious raid landed in the Bahamas...

CONTENTSChildhood, 1811-1824School Days in Hartford, 1824-1832Cincinnati, 1832-1836Early Married Life, 1836-1840Poverty and Sickness, 1840-1850Removal to Brunswick, 1850-1852Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852First Trip to Europe, 1853Sunny Memories, 1853From over the Sea, 1853Home Again, 1853-1856Dred, 1856Old Scenes Revisited, 1856The Minister's Wooing, 1857-1859The Third Trip to Europe, 1859The Civil War, 1860-1865Florida, 1865-1869Oldtown Folks, 1869T...

In response to the demand from the engineers of the country, systems of plane coordinates for each of the various States were computed by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. After these were completed there was need of a manual of computations that would show clearly how the resulting grids could be used in actual calculation. Although two different systems were used in adapting the grids to the different States, yet the method of using the r...

On March 15, 1916, the 1st Aero Squadron arrived at Columbus, New Mexico, its train steaming into the crowded, chaotic town at 9:15 in the morning. Led by Capt. Benjamin D. Foulois, a lantern-jawed, bantam-weight former enlisted man, the squadron included eleven officers, eighty-two enlisted men, and one civilian technician. Under Foulois's direction, the men unloaded an automobile, six motorcycles, and twelve motor trucks, vehicles rare in 19...

As efforts continue to settle the Cambodia-Laos issue, Vietnam is again a focus of American attention. With the passage of time since the United States pulled out of Vietnam, American policymakers have begun approaching the major Indochinese issues from new perspectives, particularly new perspectives toward that general region. As is so often the case, history, by informing, may also help illuminate these issues. In this book, Ambassador Rober...

General Adams reflects on his experiences in the cold war, during which he served in both manned bombers and missile silos. He tells stories of famous and not-so-famous cold warriors, including some from the US Navy. Some stories are humorous, some stories are tragic. Having traveled extensively in Russia and some former Soviet Union states after retirement, General Adams tells us about his former adversaries, the Soviet cold warriors. In the ...

Students of the American Civil War, whose ranks are legion, have paid vigorous attention to the many facets of the Union blockade of the Southern Confederacy. Questions of its strategic and economic impact are frequently debated, as are the important problems of logistics and diplomacy. Relatively little attention, however, has been paid to the participants themselves. The men who served on the blockading ships of the U.S. Navy performed the m...

With the advent of increasingly more efficient light sources, interior lighting levels have continued to rise dramatically. However, in many cases these higher lighting levels caused more complaints than the previously lower lighting levels. This was because many of the lighting engineers who designed the newer lighting layouts ignored, or were ignorant of, many parameters that need to be considered other than illumination levels. A knowledgea...

The Smell of Kerosene tells the dramatic story of a NASA research pilot who logged over 11, 000 flight hours in more than 125 types of aircraft. Donald Mallick gives the reader fascinating first- hand descriptions of his early naval flight training, carrier operations, and his research flying career with NASA and its predecessor agency, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Mallick joined the NACA as a research pilot at the L...

The U. S. relationship with China and the global war on terrorism are the two most significant strategic challenges faced by the Bush administration. Both are vital and complex, the way the administration manages them will shape American security for many years. While there is a growing literature on both key strategic issues, little analysis has been done on the intersection of the two. In this monograph, Dr. Mohan Malik of the Asia-Pacific C...

These pages provide a selection of pictorial material that shows the evolution which hunting, shooting, falconry, and fishing underwent from the fifteenth century (just previous to the invention of printing) to the French Revolution, thus taking in the four centuries that are as vital to the history of venery as they are to that of art. Some old pictures of horsemanship, and the first pictorial descriptions of mountain climbing have been inclu...

The successes of the South Pacific Force, " wrote Admiral Halsey in 1944, "were not the achievements of separate services or individuals but the result of whole-hearted subordination of self-interest by all in order that one successful 'fighting team' could be created." The history of any South Pacific campaign must deal with this "fighting team, " with all United States and Allied services. The victory on Guadalcanal can be understood only by...

Along with problems and typical solutions the book gives brief theoretical information, which is particularly valuable for students working without the guidance of a teacher.Khristofor Artemyevich Arustamov, Professor at the Bauman Higher Technical School in Moscow, has been heading the chair of descriptive geometry and drawing for over forty years. He has written a number of manuals on solving problems in descriptive geometry.

CONTENTSIntroductionA New SituationThe National Defense Program Outline ReviewKey Issues Host Nation Support Theater Missile Defense Technology, Procurement, and Arms ExportsRecommendationsAppendix A: The Modality of the Security and Defense Capability of Japan: The Outlook for the 21st CenturyForewordThe World and the Asia-Pacific after the Cold War The End of the Cold War and Qualitative Changes in the Security Environment Multilateral Coope...

Originally published in 1918, journalist William Le Queux bases the book on the revelations of Feodor Rajevski - Rasputin's secretary and body servant - alleging plots of poison, murder and the real power behind the throne of Russia.

A history of the major and minor naval engagements of the Civil War on the Mississippi, the Red River, Mobile Bay and the Gulf, based on official records and eyewitness accounts. Originally published in 1883, so the author was able to ask direct questions of many of the participants.