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"Most people think of snipers as shooters perched in urban hides, dealing out death unseen from a considerable distance. But this description barely scratches the surface. [The author explains that] special operations snipers are men with stacked skill sets who have the ability to turn the tide of battles, even when they aren't pulling the trigger ... These are the most experienced warriors on the battlefield, oftentimes the units' best assaulters...
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Victory Rests with the Lord is a validation of Proverbs 21:31, The Horse is made ready for the day of battle, but victory rests with the Lord.
The commander of one of the most successful infantry companies during the Vietnam War makes a strong case that the war was winnable if God would have provided our leaders the wisdom and creativity to employ the correct tactics.
Victory Rests with the Lord explains why the most powerful military in the world...
6) Tittsworth
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Jack as he is know to his friends, is a retired military officer and a decorated combat veteran. He's had tours in the 82nd Airborne, 509th Airborne, 8th Division, 4th Division, 51st RCAT in Vietnam, and as an instructor at West Point. Following his military career he spent time as an executive in corporate America then going on to established and run several small businesses in the United States and Europe. Jack has had the good fortune to work with...
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The Greatest Stories Never Told: Snipers is an unforgettable collection of heart-stopping stories of well-known contemporary American snipers but focuses primarily upon other practitioners of the silent art who few contemporary readers in this genre have encountered before. They begin in south central France, at the dawn of the Thirteenth Century, and end in our present era of modern warfare. They include stories from the Civil War, the Great War,...
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Cannon to the left of them; cannon to the right of them… The legend of an extraordinary defeat brought vividly to life
The cavalry charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War remains one of the most iconic disasters in British military history. Here bestseller John Harris casts a fresh view on the subject, rejecting conventional wisdom.
The calamity was, he argues, brought about by something much more complex than the usually suspected cause:...
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"Forging Peace" offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the British military intervention in Sierra Leone from 2000 to 2002, a crucial period that significantly impacted the trajectory of the country's civil war and its journey towards peace. The book meticulously examines the intervention without the use of interviews, instead relying on an extensive review of available documentation, military records, governmental archives, and media reports.The...
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In the summer of 1914 Scotland prepared for war.
Steel and Tartan charts the adventures of the 4th Battalion, Queens Own Cameron Highlanders – from their training in Bedford with the Highland Division through to five major engagements in France, including the Battle of Neuve Chapelle and the Battle of Loos, to eventual break-up in March 1916 at the hands of the British Army administrators. Of the 1,500 men who fought with the Battalion, over 250...
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Este trabajo se afinca en esa indeterminada no man's land entre lo historiográfico y lo sociológico. Con precisión de experto taxonomista; ha desarrollado sus más de cuarenta años de su carrera investigadora en el Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias (INIA), desgrana con precisión y minuciosidad, en un estilo directo y sin concesiones a la retórica, las experiencias personales y profesionales de esa élite de la milicia que representaban...
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No matter the war, no matter the army, no matter the nationality, common threads run through the experiences of men at war. Soldiers highlights these shared experiences across 150 years of warfare, from the Napoleonic Wars through World War II and everything in between, such as the Mexican and Crimean Wars, the American Civil War, the U.S. Indian Wars and Britain's imperial bush wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the Boer War, the First World War, and more....
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Get the Summary of Adam Gamal and Kelly Kennedy's The Unit in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Unit" by Adam Gamal and Kelly Kennedy is a gripping account of Gamal's journey from a vegetable vendor in Alexandria, Egypt, to a key member of the US military's most secretive unit. The narrative follows Gamal's life, starting with his childhood in a culturally rich Alexandria, his family's emphasis on education and...
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Badly disfigured Lady Isobel Dalceann has fought fiercely to defend her keep, with little thought for her safety. Why, then, has she let a stranger within her walls? While he threatens danger, his battered body marked by war mirrors her own scars and tempts her to put her faith in him.
Marc de Courtenay is a mercenary and a loner, although he is drawn to damaged-;beautiful-;Isobel. But in taking him into her highly defended, buttressed walls, she...
15) His One Woman
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Civil war in a nation...;and in a family!
Jack Dilhorne was in Washington, D.C., on business just as war was being declared between the North and South. It was not the best of times to meet someone as intriguing as Marietta Hope.
Marietta's reputation preceded her: Jack expected her to be an embittered old maid. He was delightfully surprised to find her a bright, witty and goodlooking woman. But as Jack and Marietta grew closer their love came under...
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Stella di Imbrogliado has always made the most of bad situations – but when her life takes a major detour and her loved-ones betray her, she reroutes her journey altogether. With nothing left to lose, she departs her old life by enlisting in the U.S. Air Force.In this bizarre new world where orders are shouted, showers are a social event, and sweat is the ultimate beauty aid, she taps her unimagined strength and begins to see that her worst day...
17) Camp Valor
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Fourteen-year-old Wyatt avoids a prison sentence by agreeing to spend three months in a secret government training camp for teenage agents, but when enemies try to root out Camp Valor's secrets, Wyatt and his friends have to put their training into practice to protect their country.
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From a World War I veteran: A novel of the years-long, brutal battle at Ypres, Belgium, and what it did to the city and the men who fought there.
In 1915, a platoon of inexperienced British soldiers arrives in Flanders, excited and anxious for what is to come. But they soon find themselves at Ypres, where the battle-weary Allied troops have dug in and slaughter surrounds them. Soldiers, from privates to senior officers of the wider battalion, frozen...
19) SEAL in a Storm
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There is a storm brewing…in his heart…Her name is Rayne.As a former SEAL commander, Dex Carson had participated in more than his share of rescues. When called upon to lead a multi-agency team into the Virgin Islands National Park jungle to rescue high value targets, he knew he was headed for trouble. Ten teenage girls-whose parents were members of Congress-and their chaperones, needed saving from kidnappers. He cringed. The thought of entitled...
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Formed by an elite cadre of government officials, the five member Black OPS team goes where the law can't - to seek retribution for acts of terror directed against Americans anywhere in the world.BLACK OPS - BOOK 3: AMERICANS TAKEN HOSTAGE IN GREECE! The Black OPS team's priority is to rescue a hostaged group of archaeological students, including the niece of the Secretary of State. Blood has already been spilled, and the students face an ever-receding...
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