Red Assault

Author : Vladimir Kotelnikov
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781913118037

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Red Assault by Vladimir Kotelnikov Pdf

An aviation historian explores Russian airborne assault innovations in the decade before WWII using paratrooper memoirs and archival research. Through the 1930s, the USSR was pioneering new developments and technologies in airborne assault. The Red Army was conducting mass airborne assault exercises—dropping paratroopers, tanks, and guns from the skies—when no other nation on Earth even had airborne assault troops. In Red Assault, the Russian aviation historian Vladimir Kotelnikov explores these pioneering achievements. He describes the armament, equipment, and military hardware developed for airborne troops, as well as fantastical projects that reflect the unrestrained imagination of the Soviet military’s aviation designers. Kotelnikov offers a detailed account of the aircraft designed for airborne troops, while also describing troop drop exercises and real operations leading up to 1941. Kotelnikov’s research is drawn from government archives and museum collections, as well as the memoirs of pioneer military paratroopers in the USSR, some of which have never been published before.

Author : Charles Whiting
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0708816010

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Red Assault by Charles Whiting Pdf

Author : P. J. Finglass,Adrian Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107069732

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Stesichorus in Context by P. J. Finglass,Adrian Kelly Pdf

The first collection of essays, by leading scholars, on a major Greek poet whose works have only recently been recovered.

Author : David M. Glantz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066833818

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Red Storm Over the Balkans by David M. Glantz Pdf

The leading expert on Soviet military history resurrects a failed World War II campaign that the official Russian history seeks to erase from memory. Reconstructing the Red Army's first invasion of Romania in the spring of 1944, Glantz shows that despite the campaign's abysmal failure, it provided a clear indication of Stalin's strong interest in the Balkans and further damaged the German army's ability to stop the Soviet war machine in its drive toward Berlin.

Author : Suzanne Hindmarch,Michael Orsini,Marilou Gagnon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487510312

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Seeing Red by Suzanne Hindmarch,Michael Orsini,Marilou Gagnon Pdf

What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner? Seeing Red offers the first critical analysis of HIV/AIDS policy in Canada. Featuring the diverse experiences of people living with HIV, this collection highlights various perspectives from academics, activists, and community workers who look ahead to the new and complex challenges associated with HIV/AIDS and Canadian society. In addition to representing a diversity of voices and perspectives, Seeing Red reflects on historical responses to HIV/AIDS in Canada. Among the specific issues addressed are the over-representation of Indigenous peoples among those living with HIV, the criminalization of HIV, and barriers to health and support services, particularly as experienced by vulnerable and marginalized populations. The editors and contributors seek to show that Canada has been neither uniquely compassionate nor proactive when it comes to supporting those living with HIV/AIDS. Instead, this remains a critical area of public policy, one fraught with challenges as well as possibilities.

Author : James Scott Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015074076665

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The Big Red One by James Scott Wheeler Pdf

"No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great-Duty First!" For almost a century, from the Western Front of World War I to the deserts of Iraq, this motto has spurred the soldiers who wear the shoulder patch bearing the Big Red One. In this first comprehensive history of America's 1st Infantry Division, James Scott Wheeler chronicles its major combat engagements and peacetime duties during its legendary service to the nation. The oldest continuously serving division in the U.S. Army, the "Fighting First" has consistently played a crucial role in America's foreign wars. It was the first American division to see combat and achieve victory in World War I and set the standard for discipline, training, endurance, and tactical innovation. One of the few intact divisions between the wars, it was the first army unit to train for amphibious warfare. During World War II, the First Division spearheaded the invasions of North Africa and Sicily before leading the Normandy invasion at Omaha Beach and fighting on through the Hurtgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge, the Ruhr Pocket, and deep into Germany. By war's end, it had developed successful combined-arms, regimental combat teams and made advances in night operations. Wheeler describes the First Division's critical role in postwar Germany and as the only combat division in Europe during the early Cold War. After returning to the United States at Fort Riley, Kansas, the division fought valiantly in Vietnam for five trying years, successfully protecting Saigon from major infiltration along Highway 13 while pioneering "air-mobile" operations. It led the liberation of Kuwait in Desert Storm and kept an uneasy peace in Bosnia and Kosovo. Along the way, Wheeler illuminates the division's organizational evolution, its consistently remarkable commanders and leaders, and its equally remarkable soldiers. Meticulously detailed and engagingly written, The Big Red One nimbly combines historical narrative with astute analysis of the unit's successes and failures, so that its story reflects the larger chronicle of America's military experience over the past century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
ISBN : SRLF:D0001604818

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Armor by Anonim Pdf

The magazine of mobile warfare.

Author : Christopher Marmolejo
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781623178482

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Red Tarot by Christopher Marmolejo Pdf

Designed to be used with any deck, Red Tarot is a radical praxis and decolonized oracle that moves beyond self-help and divination to reclaim tarot for liberation, self-determination, and collective healing. For readers of Postcolonial Astrology and Tarot for Change Red Tarot speaks to anyone othered for their identity or ways of being or thinking—LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC folks in particular—presenting the tarot as a radical epistemology that shifts the authority of knowing into the hands of the people themselves. Author Christopher Marmolejo frames literacy as key to liberation, and explores an understanding of tarot as critical literacy. They show how the cards can be read to subvert the dynamics of white supremacist-capitalist-imperialist-patriarchy, weaving historical context and spiritual practice into a comprehensive overview of tarot. Situating tarot imagery within cosmologies outside the Hellenistic frame—Death as interpreted through the lens of Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta, the High Priestess through Aztec goddess Coyolxauhqui—Marmolejo’s Red Tarot is a profound act of native reclamation and liberation. Each card’s interpretation is further bolstered by the teachings of Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Paulo Freire, José Esteban Muñoz, and others, in an offering that integrates intersectional wisdom with the author’s divination practice—and reveals tarot as an essential language for liberation.

Author : Dmitri? Fedorovich Loza
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803229208

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Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks by Dmitri? Fedorovich Loza Pdf

Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitriy Loza has carefully crafted his World War II experiences with U.S.-provided Sherman tanks into a highly readable memoir. Between the fall of 1943 and August 1945, Loza fought in the Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. He commanded a tank battalion during much of this period and had three Shermans shot out from under him. Loza's unit participated in such well-known combat actions as the Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy Operation, the Jassy-Kishenev Operation, and the battles for Budapest, Vienna, and Prague. Following the German surrender, Loza's unit was sent to Mongolia, where it participated in the arduous trek across the Gobi Desert to attack the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria. This is the first available detailed examination of the Red Army's exploitation of U.S. war matiriel during World War II and one of the first genuine memoirs available from the Russian front. Loza also provides firsthand testimony on tactical command decisions, group objectives and how they were accomplished, and Soviet use of combat equipment and intelligence. Only after the collapse of the USSR and concomitant relaxing of prohibitions against publication of materials related to the Lend-Lease Program there could this account be made available Dmitriy Loza served as an instructor at the Frunze Academy after the war, retiring in 1967 with the rank of colonel. He resides in Moscow. James F. Gebhardt, now a defense contractor at Fort Leavenworth, is a Vietnam veteran. He is the author of Blood on the Shores: Soviet Naval Commandos in World War II.

Author : Charles Lanman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : NYPL:33433081822979

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The Red Book of Michigan by Charles Lanman Pdf

Author : Charles Snodgrass Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Medicine, Military
ISBN : HARVARD:HX6V7V

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Under the Red Crescent by Charles Snodgrass Ryan Pdf

'Under the Red Crescent' tells the adventures of an English surgeon with the Turkish Army at Plevna and Erzeroum, 1877-1878. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : David P. McMullan
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781457543883

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Behind the Curtain by David P. McMullan Pdf

Since September 11th, 2001, America has not experienced another major attack on U.S. soil. This is not by accident but due to the diligence of those assigned to protect us. Now there is another credible threat targeting the New York-New Jersey area and Jake Patrick, the Director of the New Jersey Special Task Force on Terrorism, might be the only person capable of preventing it. As the evidence begins to materialize, the scope of the planned attack appears enormous and the potential loss of life would be devastating. Teamed with the New York City Anti-Terror Unit, Jake’s in a race against time to discover the day, time and target of this attack before disaster strikes once again. This is the story of the days and hours leading up to this assault and the brave men and women whose job it is to prevent it from happening.

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : anboco
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736412828

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The Red True Story Book by Andrew Lang Pdf

The Red True Story Book needs no long Introduction. The Editor, in presenting The Blue True Story Book, apologised for offering tales so much less thrilling and romantic than the legends of the Fairies, but he added that even real facts were, sometimes, curious and interesting. Next year he promises something quite as true as History, and quite as entertaining as Fairies! For this book, Mr. Rider Haggard has kindly prepared a narrative of 'Wilson's Last Fight,' by aid of conversations with Mr. Burnham, the gallant American scout. But Mr. Haggard found, while writing his chapter, that Mr. Burnham had already told the story in an 'Interview' published by the Westminster Gazette. The courtesy of the proprietor of that journal, and of Mr. Burnham, has permitted Mr. Haggard to incorporate the already printed narrative with his own matter. 'The Life and Death of Joan the Maid' is by the Editor, who has used M. Quicherat's Procès (five volumes, published for the Historical Society of France), with M. Quicherat's other researches. He has also used M. Wallon's Biography, the works of Father Ayroles, S.J., the Jeanne d'Arc à Domremy of M. Siméon Luce, the works of M. Sepet, of Michelet, of Henri Martin, and, generally, all printed documents to which he has had access. Of unprinted contemporary matter perhaps none is known to exist, except the[viii] Venetian Correspondence, now being prepared for publication by Father Ayroles. 'How the Bass was held for King James' is by the Editor, mainly from Blackadder's Life.

Author : Lester Grau,Michael Gress
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612000206

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The Red Army's Do-It-Yourself, Nazi-Bashing Guerrilla Warfare Manual by Lester Grau,Michael Gress Pdf

The WWII Soviet guerilla training manual that became an essential text for freedom fighters across the globe—complete with illustrations. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union during World War II, the Red Army began recruiting local partisans to help mount a resistance. This edition of The Partisan’s Companion is the last and best Red Army manual used to train these men to fight Nazi invaders. Besides field craft, it covers partisan tactics, German counter-guerrilla tactics, demolitions, German and Soviet weapons, scouting, camouflage, anti-tank warfare, and antiaircraft defense for squad and platoon-level instruction. It contains the Soviet lessons of two bitter years of war and provides a good look at the tactics and training of a mature partisan force. While this handbook was a vital part of Soviet victory over the Nazis, its usefulness outlived the Second World War. It was later used to train guerrilla groups in the developing world during their wars of national liberation in the 1950s–70s. Even the fedayeen guerrillas who fought US and coalition forces in Iraq relied on this manual for training, tactics, and general approach to combat. A selection of the Military Book Club.

Author : W. Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UCAL:B4956504

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Red Victory by W. Bruce Lincoln Pdf

A chronicle of the Russian Civil War, from 1918 to 1921.