Название: Time in the Wilderness: The Formative Years of John “Black Jack” Pershing in the American West
Автор: Tim McNeese
Издательство: Potomac Books
ISBN: 1640124063
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 442
Размер: 9,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Most Americans familiar with General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing know him as the commander of American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the latter days of World War I. But Pershing was in his late fifties by then. Pershing’s military career began in 1886, with his graduation from West Point and his first assignments in the American West as a horsebound cavalry officer during the final days of Apache resistance in the Southwest, where Arizona and New Mexico still represented a frontier of blue-clad soldiers, Native Americans, cowboys, rustlers, and miners.

Название: Curiosities of the Civil War: Strange Stories, Infamous Characters and Bizarre Events
Автор: Webb Garrison
Издательство: Thomas Nelson
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 560
Размер: 2,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Civil War buffs, be warned: Webb Garrison’s Curiosities of the Civil War may catch you off guard. Packed with obscurities and bizarre anecdotes, it spills over with specifics you’ve likely never heard. Debated, reenacted, and analyzed, the Civil War has been the subject of countless books, films, and scholarly research—many of them quite repetitious.

Название: Why We Fought: Inspiring Stories of Resisting Hitler and Defending Freedom
Автор: Jerry Borrowman
Издательство: Shadow Mountain
ISBN: 1629729345
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 208
Размер: 2,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The struggle to combat the Nazis during World War II encompassed front lines far beyond conventional battlefields. In a panoramic and compelling account, author Jerry Borrowman shares seven largely untold stories of people who undertook extraordinary efforts to defeat the Third Reich at enormous personal risk.

Название: The Soldiers' Peace: Demobilizing the British Army 1919
Автор: Michael Senior
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526703041
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 224
Размер: 5,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Armistice in 1918 presented the British government with an enormous challenge "“ how could the British army that had been built up on an unprecedented scale during the war be cut back to a peacetime size and how could millions of soldiers be returned to civilian life?In November 1918, the last month of the war, the British army numbered 3.75 million.

Название: The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam
Автор: George Black
Издательство: Knopf
ISBN: 0593534107
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 496
Размер: 38,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The moving story of how a small group of people—including two Vietnam veterans—forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the ongoing horrors—agent orange and unexploded munitions—inflicted on the Vietnamese.

Название: The Vulcan Story
Автор: Peter R. March
Издательство: Sutton Publishing
ISBN: 0750943998
Год издания: 2006
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 136
Формат: PDF
Размер: 78,5 MB

The RAF's huge delta-wing Vulcan jet nuclear bomber is an enduring image of the Cold War era. One of the cornerstones of Britain's nuclear deterrent, in later years it was adapted for conventional bombing and saw active service in the Falklands War. Avro Vulcan XH558 was the first Vulcan B2 to enter service with the RAF in July 1960, and the last to fly (with the RAF Vulcan Display Flight in 1992).

Название: Herky: The Memoirs of a Checkertail Ace (Schiffer Military/Aviation History)
Издательство: Schiffer Publishing
Год: 1996
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 200
Размер: 238 Mb
Язык: English

Herky: The Memoirs of a Checkertail Ace

Название: Fighting Machines: Autonomous Weapons and Human Dignity
Автор: Dan Saxon
Издательство: University of Pennsylvania Press
Год: 2022
Страниц: 261
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub, mobi
Размер: 10.1 MB

Lethal autonomous weapons are weapon systems that can select and destroy targets without intervention by a human operator. Fighting Machines explores the relationship between lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS), the concept of human dignity, and international law. Much of this analysis speaks to three fundamental and related problems: When a LAWS takes a human life, is that killing a violation of human dignity? Can states and non-state actors use LAWS in accordance with international law? And are there certain responsibilities of human decision-making during wartime that we should not delegate to machines? Today, in the twenty-first century, this trend continues and at a faster pace. The U.S. Department of Defense treats the virtual and anonymous environment of cyberspace as a new domain of warfare, subject to offensive and defensive military operations. By congressional mandate, today at least one-third of essential U.S. military aircraft and ground vehicles deployed should be unmanned and “military robots”—controlled by computer software code that we call “artificial intelligence”—may outnumber manned weapons systems by 2030. The F-35, the latest-generation jet fighter plane, “almost certainly will be the last manned strike fighter aircraft the U.S. Department of the Navy will ever buy or fly.” The increasing computerization and impersonalization of the modern battlespace relegates many soldiers and commanders to mere adjuncts to the software.

Название: Waterloo after the Glory: Hospital Sketches and Reports on the Wounded after the Battle (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №32)
Издательство: Helion & Company
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 316
Размер: 11 Mb

Waterloo after the Glory: Hospital Sketches and Reports on the Wounded after the Battle

Название: Waterloo after the Glory: Hospital Sketches and Reports on the Wounded after the Battle (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №32)
Издательство: Helion & Company
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 316
Размер: 11 Mb

Waterloo after the Glory: Hospital Sketches and Reports on the Wounded after the Battle