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One Hundred Victories

Author : Linda Robinson
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610391504

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One Hundred Victories is a portrait of how—after a decade of intensive combat operations—special operations forces have become the go-to force for US military endeavors worldwide. Linda Robinson follows the evolution of special ops in Afghanistan, their longest deployment since Vietnam. She has lived in mud-walled compounds in the mountains and deserts of insurgent-dominated regions, and uses those experiences to show the gritty reality of the challenges the SOF face and the constant danger in which they operate. She witnessed special operators befriending villagers to help them secure their homes, and fighting off insurgents in the most dangerous safe havens even as they navigated a constant series of conflicts, crises, and other “meteors” from conventional forces, the CIA, and the Pakistanis—not to mention weak links within their own ranks. They showed what a tiny band of warriors could do, and could not do, out on the wild frontiers of the next-generation wars. One Hundred Victories also includes the inside story of the dramatic November 2011 cross-border firefight with Pakistan, which sent the US commander into a fury and provoked an international crisis. It describes the murky world of armed factions operating along the world's longest disputed border, and the chaos and casualties that result when commanders with competing agendas cannot resolve their differences.

One Hundred Victories

Author : Linda Robinson
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610391504

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One Hundred Victories by Linda Robinson Pdf

One Hundred Victories is a portrait of how—after a decade of intensive combat operations—special operations forces have become the go-to force for US military endeavors worldwide. Linda Robinson follows the evolution of special ops in Afghanistan, their longest deployment since Vietnam. She has lived in mud-walled compounds in the mountains and deserts of insurgent-dominated regions, and uses those experiences to show the gritty reality of the challenges the SOF face and the constant danger in which they operate. She witnessed special operators befriending villagers to help them secure their homes, and fighting off insurgents in the most dangerous safe havens even as they navigated a constant series of conflicts, crises, and other “meteors” from conventional forces, the CIA, and the Pakistanis—not to mention weak links within their own ranks. They showed what a tiny band of warriors could do, and could not do, out on the wild frontiers of the next-generation wars. One Hundred Victories also includes the inside story of the dramatic November 2011 cross-border firefight with Pakistan, which sent the US commander into a fury and provoked an international crisis. It describes the murky world of armed factions operating along the world's longest disputed border, and the chaos and casualties that result when commanders with competing agendas cannot resolve their differences.

Small Victories

Author : Julia Turshen
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781452148762

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The acclaimed cookbook author reveals the secrets to great home cooking with this cookbook featuring kitchen tips and 400+ simple recipes and variations. Go-to recipe developer Julia Turshen is the co-author of best-selling cookbooks such as Gwyneth Paltrow’s It’s All Good, and Dana Cowin’s Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen, as well as the author of her own cookbooks Now & Again and Feed the Resistance. In Small Victories, she shares a treasure trove of kitchen tips and simple recipes you’ll return to again and again. Julia demystifies the process of home cooking through more than a hundred “small victories”—funny and inspiring lessons she has learned through a lifetime of cooking thousands of meals. This beautifully curated, deeply personal collection emphasizes bold-flavored, honest food for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. The volume is enhanced by more than 160 mouth-watering photographs from acclaimed photographers Gentl + Hyers to follow while cooking.

Small Victories

Author : Adrian Harte
Publisher : Jawbone Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 1911036378

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‘When I first heard about this Faith No More biography, I didn’t know what to think. But I have to give credit where it is due, it’s a quality piece. The man has done his research and it shows. It provided me with more than a few revelations … and I’m in the band.’ — Bill Gould, Faith No More Small Victories: The True Story of Faith No More is the definitive biography of one of the most intriguing bands of the late twentieth century. Written with the participation of the group’s key members, it tells how such a heterogeneous group formed, flourished, and fractured, and how Faith No More helped redefine rock, metal and alternative music. The book chronicles the creative and personal tensions that defined and fueled the band, forensically examines the band’s beginnings in San Francisco’s post-punk wasteland, and charts the factors behind the group’s ascent to MTV-era stardom. Small Victories strips away the mythology and misinformation behind their misanthropic masterpiece Angel Dust, explores the rationale behind the frequent hiring and firing of band members, and traces the unraveling of the band in the mid-1990s. It also examines the band’s breakup and hiatus, explores their unwelcome legacy as nu-metal godfathers, and gives a behind-the-scenes view of their rebirth. Based on meticulous research and hundreds of interviews with current and former band members and other key figures, Small Victories combines a fan’s passion with a reporter’s perspicacity.

Three Great English Victories: A 3-book Collection of Harlequin, 1356 and Azincourt

Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 1408 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008164461

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Three Great English Victories: A 3-book Collection of Harlequin, 1356 and Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell Pdf

On the eve of the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Azincourt comes three classic battle books of The Hundred Years War by the bestselling master of historical fiction, Bernard Cornwell, in one three-book collection for the first time.

SUN TZU LEADERSHIP ONE™

Author : James Sonhill DBA,Sun Tzu
Publisher : Sonhill Publishing LLC
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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SUN TZU LEADERSHIP ONE™ by James Sonhill DBA,Sun Tzu Pdf

Sun Tzu Leadership One™ explains why there is only one style of leadership in the world. This leadership style is called Quo which means urging or driving and often requires leaders to lead their followers to achieve a series of common goals and accomplish one core mission as well as create economic value and uphold one higher shared philosophy. Proven strategy principles and strategy formulas in this business leadership book show you how to be decisive and effective with how you lead your team and make your decisions and how to be adaptive and competitive with how you perform your work and take your actions so that you can compel to success. For more information on our business strategy books, business strategy planners, business strategy courses, and business strategy certification programs, visit our websites: www.JamesSonhill.com and www.SunTzuStore.com.

Every Little Win

Author : Todd Tilghman,Brooke Tilghman
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400229116

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Every Little Win by Todd Tilghman,Brooke Tilghman Pdf

What does a forty-two-year-old, small-town pastor do when he wins one of the most popular singing competitions in the world? Todd Tilghman and his wife, Brooke, share how decades of unrelenting challenges have taught them a joyful mindset of embracing not only winning The Voice but also "every little win" along the way. When Todd Tilghman, pastor and father of eight from Meridian, Mississippi, auditioned for The Voice,he counted it as a win simply to sing in front of an audience other than family and church members. Despite no music or vocal training, he not only made it through the blind audition--with all four celebrity judges vying to coach him--he also won the show's entire eighteenth season. Fans were drawn to Todd's tremendous joy on stage, giving them much-needed inspiration during the hard challenges of a global pandemic. In their first book, Todd and Brooke share how their focus on joy and celebrating every little win has helped them to overcome numerous challenges over their twenty-plus-year marriage. From adopting two children from South Korea to fighting for their newborn son's life to pastoring a small congregation through periods of adversity, Todd and Brooke share the lessons they've learned and the strategies that have moved them from fear to faith to ever-present joy.

Masters of Chaos

Author : Linda Robinson
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786738151

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Special Forces soldiers are daring, seasoned troops from America's heartland, selected in a tough competition and trained in an extraordinary range of skills. They know foreign languages and cultures and unconventional warfare better than any U.S. fighters, and while they prefer to stay out of the limelight, veteran war correspondent Linda Robinson gained access to their closed world. She traveled with them on the frontlines, interviewed them at length on their home bases, and studied their doctrine, methods and history. In Masters of Chaos she tells their story through a select group of senior sergeants and field-grade officers, a band of unforgettable characters like Rawhide, Killer, Michael T, and Alan -- led by the unflappable Lt. Col. Chris Conner and Col. Charlie Cleveland, a brilliant but self-effacing West Pointer who led the largest unconventional war campaign since Vietnam in northern Iraq. Robinson follows the Special Forces from their first post-Vietnam combat in Panama, El Salvador, Desert Storm, Somalia, and the Balkans to their recent trials and triumphs in Afghanistan and Iraq. She witnessed their secret sleuthing and unsung successes in southern Iraq, and recounts here for the first time the dramatic firefights of the western desert. Her blow-by-blow story of the attack on Ansar al-Islam's international terrorist training camp has never been told before. The most comprehensive account ever of the modern-day Special Forces in action, Masters of Chaos is filled with riveting, intimate detail in the words of a close-knit band of soldiers who have done it all.

A Century of Jayhawk Triumphs

Author : Blair Kerkhoff
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781461661764

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Basketball wasn't invented at Kansas but basketball tradition was. It's where James Naismith taught, Phog Allen coached, Wilt Chamberlain dominated, Danny Manning performed a miracle and Roy Williams wins like no other coach in the college game. It's been a century of national championships, All-Americans, Olympic heroes and remarkable games. A Century of Jayhawk Triumphs relives the top 100 victories in the program's storied history.

Eagle Down

Author : Jessica Donati
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541762572

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A Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of frontline U.S. special operations troops fighting to keep the Taliban and Islamic State from overthrowing the U.S.-backed government in the final years of the war in Afghanistan. A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “Powerful, important, and searing." —General David Petraeus, U.S. Army (ret.), former commander, U.S. Central Command, former CIA director In 2015, the White House claimed triumphantly that “the longest war in American history” was over. But for some, it was just the beginning of a new war, fought by Special Operations Forces, with limited resources, little governmental oversight, and contradictory orders. With big picture insight and on-the-ground grit, Jessica Donati shares the stories of the impossible choices these soldiers must make. After the fall of a major city to the Taliban that year, Hutch, a battle-worn Green Beret on his fifth combat tour was ordered on a secret mission to recapture it and inadvertently called in an airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital, killing dozens. Caleb stepped on a bomb during a mission in notorious Sangin. Andy was trapped with his team during a raid with a crashed Black Hawk and no air support. Through successive policy directives under the Obama and Trump administrations, America came to rely almost entirely on US Special Forces, and without a long-term plan, failed to stabilize Afghanistan, undermining US interests both at home and abroad. Eagle Down is a riveting account of the heroism, sacrifice, and tragedy experienced by those that fought America’s longest war.

To Win a War

Author : John Terraine
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445671468

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An expert narrative of 1918, when the breakthrough was finally made, and everything it took to achieve victory.

The Mission, The Men, and Me

Author : Pete Blaber
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101443194

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The Mission, The Men, and Me by Pete Blaber Pdf

“A book about the complexities of combat that's just as applicable for dealing with the complexities of business and our personal lives.”—Kevin Sharer, chairman and CEO, Amgen As a commander of Delta Force-the most elite counter—terrorist organization in the world—Pete Blaber took part in some of the most dangerous, controversial, and significant military and political events of our time. Now he takes his intimate knowledge of warfare—and the heart, mind, and spirit it takes to win—and moves his focus from the combat zone to civilian life. In this book, you will learn the same lessons he learned, while experiencing what the life of a Delta Force Operator is like—from the extreme physical and psychological training to the darkest of shadow ops all around the world. From each mission, Pete Blaber has taken a life lesson back with him. You will learn these enlightening lessons as you gain insights into never-before-revealed missions executed around the globe. And when the smoke clears, you will emerge wiser, more capable, and better prepared to succeed in life than you ever thought possible.

The Greatest Victory

Author : J. L. Granatstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0199009317

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The Greatest Victory by J. L. Granatstein Pdf

How did Canadians come to lead these mobile, well-coordinated, and hard-hitting attacks? The preparations were intense, according to Granatstein, ranging from individual training to massive corps-wide exercises; careful analysis of "lessons learned" studies; expansion of the role of signallers, gunners and engineers; and perfection of techniques like the "creeping barrage." The "fire and movement" philosophy emphasized by Sir Arthur Currie, Commander of the Canadian Corps, increased the use of tanks, machine guns, Stokes mortars, and phosphorus bombs, among other military hardware. Mobility was the key; Canadians used their two Motor Machine Brigades - with guns and mortars mounted on armoured cars and trucks - with great effect. Granatstein is an award-winning historian who has received six honorary degrees for his work on conflict and Canadian history.

Tarnished Victory

Author : William Marvel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547428062

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Tarnished Victory by William Marvel Pdf

A critical look at the the fourth year of Lincoln's administration and the conclusion of the author's four-volume re-examination of the Civil War.

Victory on the Walls

Author : Frieda Clark Hyman
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781883937966

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Victory on the Walls by Frieda Clark Hyman Pdf

Thirteen-year-old Bani, though born in Jerusalem, has lived from infancy with his uncle in beautiful Susa, the city of the Persian King Artaxerxes. Now, his Uncle Nehemiah wants to leave his position of high honor as Cupbearer to the King to return to Jerusalem, a city in ruins and beset by every kind of trouble! Nehemiah's request of the king, permission to return to help his own people, could so easily—in an empire riddled with political intrigue—be misconstrued as treasonous scheming. Bani himself is given an unexpected part to play, the outcome of which is to forever change his life. Seen through the eyes of Bani, this novel dramatizes a turning-point of history, in 445 BC, when—through confrontation and daring risks—Judaism was re-established in the Promised Land, and purified for her unfolding mission.