An Unexpected Break In The Weather

Author : Kendall D. Gott
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782894445

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Breaking The Mold: Tanks In The Cities [Illustrated Edition] by Kendall D. Gott Pdf

Illustrated with 30 maps. Few lessons are as prevalent in military history as is the adage that tanks don’t perform well in cities. The notion of deliberately committing tanks to urban combat is anathema to most. In Breaking the Mold: Tanks in the Cities, Mr. Ken Gott disproves that notion with a timely series of five case studies from World War II to the present war in Iraq. This is not a parochial or triumphant study. These cases demonstrate that tanks must do more than merely “arrive” on the battlefield to be successful in urban combat. From Aachen in 1944 to Fallujah in 2004, the absolute need for specialized training and the use of combined arms at the lowest tactical levels are two of the most salient lessons that emerge from this study. When properly employed, well-trained and well-supported units led by tanks are decisive in urban combat. The reverse is also true. Chechen rebels taught the Russian army and the world a brutal lesson in Grozny about what happens when armored units are poorly led, poorly trained, and cavalierly employed in a city. The case studies in this monograph are high-intensity battles in conflicts ranging from limited interventions to major combat operations. It would be wrong to use them to argue for the use of tanks in every urban situation. As the intensity of the operation decreases, the second and third order effects of using tanks in cities can begin to outweigh their utility. The damage to infrastructure caused by their sheer weight and size is just one example of what can make tanks unsuitable for every mission. Even during peace operations, however, the ability to employ tanks and other heavy armored vehicles quickly can be crucial. A study on the utility of tanks in peace operations is warranted, and planned.- Timothy R. Reese Colonel, Armor

Author : John Fuller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781935704140

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Thor's Legions by John Fuller Pdf

This book provides insight into the air force weather history from 1937 to 1987. Author John F. Fuller recounts the history of the Air Weather Service from World War II to the Vietnam conflict, introducing its courageous family of forecasters who provided vital weather support for the nation's armed forces and made notable contributions to the field of meteorology. It approaches controversial events leading up to the D-Day, Hiroshima and Nagasaki forecasts. “I'd rate the book a"gem" as a reference book, especially for weather historians.” (H. Michael Mogil, NWA, June 6, 1944)

Author : Ray Carole
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781838593933

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The Clinic by Ray Carole Pdf

Would you support an illegal programme to destroy terrorism from within? Three years ago, Harry Decker ran a covert spy cell in Baghdad for the British SAS. A mental breakdown cost Decker his career and almost his sanity. All the other members of Decker’s cell are dead; victims of suicides, random accidents and multiple murders. In a bid to rebuild his shattered mind, Harry undertakes a record-breaking crossing of Antarctica. However, as he fights for his life on the lethal glaciers, his brain concocts a vast conspiracy theory that might just be true… When Decker broadcasts his wild theory online, it’s intercepted by a group of men who will go to the ends of the earth to silence him. On the brink of madness can Harry Decker save his sanity and his life, while being hunted by former colleagues who will not hesitate to put a bullet in his head. Decker hunted people on the kill list, now he’s number one on it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210300351

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Weather, Crops, and Markets by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert E. Hirsch
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504079174

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Hammer of God by Robert E. Hirsch Pdf

A majestic novel of assassination, espionage, and forbidden love in the time of the Crusades. Ordained as a Black Monk, Tristan de Saint-Germain is inducted into medieval Europe’s most secretive organization, the Benedictine Underground, where he’s tasked with carrying out secret orders, embassies, and assassinations on behalf of the Gregorian papacy. But Tristan holds a secret. He has become hopelessly drawn to a beautiful young Romani girl, Mala, whom he met by chance as a boy. Indeed, despite his vows, his rigid monastic indoctrination, and his labors on behalf of the Benedictine Underground, Tristan cannot and will not refute his growing and unbridled passion for Mala. Their clandestine relationship, however, will weave a twisted trail that can only lead to heartbreak, betrayal, and tragedy as Tristan’s stature continues to rise within the Church while it fights schism from within and the sudden threat of Islam arising from Spain, Africa, and the Middle East. This riveting story of politics, religion, family bonds, loyalty, honor, and a man whose heart is torn between doctrine and true love brings to life the cataclysmic, murderous rampage of hatred and intolerance that bared its ugly fangs at the end of the eleventh century and whose venom lingers within us to this very day.

Author : Deborah Schnitzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0888013450

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An Unexpected Break in the Weather by Deborah Schnitzer Pdf

"A Rose" is a bridal shop like no other. When Milly and Gertrude, the shop's owners, decide it's time to close the business, they throw the most outrageous wedding ever for their favourite customer, where everyone, even the men, don taffeta.

Author : Allied
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 1668 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8186062262

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Chembers 21 Century Dictionary by Allied Pdf

Author : Johannes Ungelenk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110560978

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Literature and Weather by Johannes Ungelenk Pdf

"Literature and Weather. Shakespeare – Goethe – Zola" is dedicated to the relation between literature and weather, i.e. a cultural practice and an everyday phenomenon that has played very different epistemic roles in the history of the world. The study undertakes an archaeology of literature’s affinity to the weather which tells the story of literature’s weathery self-reflection and its creative reinventions as a medium in different epistemic and social circumstances.The book undertakes extensive close readings of three exemplary literary texts: Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Goethe’s The Sufferings of Young Werther and Zola’s The Rougon-Macquarts. These readings provide the basis for reconstructing three distinct formations, negotiating the relationship between literature and weather in the 17th, the 18th and the 19th centuries.The study is a pioneering contribution to the recent debates of literature’s indebtedness to the environment. It initiates a rewriting of literary history that is weather-sensitive; the question of literature’s agency, its power to affect, cannot be raised without understanding the way the weather works in a certain cultural formation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Marine meteorology
ISBN : MSU:31293201280280

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Mariners Weather Log by Anonim Pdf

November issue includes abridged index to yearly volume.

Author : Vernon C. Sorenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : MINN:30000004498519

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Airborne Communications Systems Operator (AFSC 11650) by Vernon C. Sorenson Pdf

Author : Kendall D. Gott
Publisher : Department of the Army
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
ISBN : WISC:89091737486

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Breaking the Mold by Kendall D. Gott Pdf

Contains five case studies from World War II to the present war in Iraq analyzing the utility of tanks and heavy armored forces in urban combat. "Breaking the Mold "provides an up-to-date analysis of the utility of tanks and heavy armored forces in urban combat. The case studies in this monograph are high-intensity battles in conflicts ranging from limited interventions to major combat operations. As the intensity of the operation decreases, the second and third order effects of using tanks in cities can begin to outweigh their utility. The damage to infrastructure caused by their sheer weight and size is just one example of what can make tanks unsuitable for every mission. Even during peace operations, however, the ability to employ tanks and other heavy armored vehicles quickly can be crucial. These cases demonstrate that tanks must do more than merely "arrive" on the battlefield to be successful in urban combat. From Aachen in 1944 to Fallujah in 2004, the absolute need for specialized training and the use of combined arms at the lowest tactical levels are two of the most salient lessons that emerge from this study. When properly employed, well-trained and well-supported units led by tanks are decisive in urban combat. The reverse is also true.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1476 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English language
ISBN : 818606236X

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Chamber Concise Dictionary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Larry J. Hughes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811773911

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Rings of Fire by Larry J. Hughes Pdf

“An epic story, filled with an unfolding array of evocatively described landscapes and sharply drawn, unforgettable people.” —Dayton Duncan, writer and producer for Ken Burns documentary films and author of fourteen books on American history and national parks Edwin Land had barely settled into his seat on the plane when the flash went off. An idea for an innovative WWII technology that might help eradicate the fascist cancer devouring the free world. It was Polaroid’s Optical Ring Sight, which magically projected a bullseye of brilliantly colored rings onto the sky—like rings of fire—to aim American antiaircraft guns that previously “couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn.” Rings of Fire is the compelling story of American ingenuity, determination, and grit—told through the personal stories of the amazing people who transformed insight into gunsight. From scientists to ordinary Americans to drifters and ex-cons characterized as “the underbelly of America,” they crossed cultural barriers to tackle a shared crisis: California “desert rat” artist, John Hilton, whose mining claim supplied the calcite crystals desperately needed for the device, assisted by Gen. George S. Patton. Miners Steve Modesto and John Owens, a Cahuilla Indian ranch hand and a white meat-cutter from Kansas, whose friendship led to an astonishing discovery. Moonshiner Al Hansen, whose calcite prospecting in Montana started with a lucky strike but cascaded into a wild-west vigilante showdown. “Crystal Crackin’ Mama” Irene Frederick, whose calcite-crystal processing skills silenced male skeptics and helped rescue the Polaroid project from disaster. Edwin Stanton, whose hubris led to a fat FBI dossier and tragedy while prospecting in Mexico. Cecil Kegans, a rough Oklahoman with a huge smile, starting his Marine career by fetching groceries for calcite miners and ending it in a bloody pool on Saipan. And miner Harry Sikkenga, whose fist fight with a shift boss packed him off to the army artillery, just in time to invade Germany and encounter the horror of Dachau. Teamed together, they overcame enormous personal obstacles to produce ring sights for Navy ships, aircraft, and Army bazookas. And afterwards, their product went from aiming the guns of war to the cameras of peacetime—for television and on the helmets of skydiving videographers. And then, all the way to the moon, aiming NASA’s space cameras, culminating with perhaps the most influential photograph of all time, Earthrise. Larry Hughes unfolds this gripping, never-told story with accessible explanations of the science and the art behind the project, but always lets the colorful characters drive a warm and vivid adventure.

Author : Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521865098

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Arctic Climate Impact Assessment - Scientific Report by Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Pdf

The Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on earth. Over the next 100 years, climate change is expected to accelerate, contributing to major physical, ecological, social, and economic changes, many of which have already begun. Changes in arctic climate will also affect the rest of the world through increased global warming and rising sea levels. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment was prepared by an international team of over 300 scientists, experts, and knowledgeable members of indigenous communities. The report has been thoroughly researched, is fully referenced, and provides the first comprehensive evaluation of arctic climate change, changes in ultraviolet radiation and their impacts for the region and for the world. It is illustrated in full color throughout. The results provided the scientific foundations for the ACIA synthesis report - Impacts of a Warming Arctic - published by Cambridge University Press in 2004.

Author : Lucy Letcher,Susan Letcher
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780811735308

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The Barefoot Sisters Southbound by Lucy Letcher,Susan Letcher Pdf

"At the ages of 25 and 21, Lucy and Susan Letcher set out to thru-hike the entire 2,175 miles of the Appalachian Trail--barefoot. Quickly earning themselves the moniker of the Barefoot Sisters, the two begin their journey at Mount Katahdin and spend eight months making their way to Springer Mountain in Georgia. As they hike, they write about their adventures through the 100-mile Wilderness, the rocky terrain of Pennsylvania, and snowfall in the great Smoky Mountains. It's as close as one can get to hiking the Appalachian Trail without strapping on a pack"--Back cover.