Author: James Elphinstone ROBERTSONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A Catechism adapted to the latest edition of the Field Exercise and Evolutions of Infantry: comprising company drill, battalion drill, ... together with twenty field-days, and explanatory remarks thereon, etc
Author: James Elphinstone ROBERTSONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Standing Fast
Author: Timothy A. WrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781780394244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A catechism adapted to the latest edition of the field exercise and evolutions of infantry
Author: James Elphinstone RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A Catechism Adapted to the Latest Edition of the Field Exercise and Evolutions of Infantry ...
Author: James Elphinston Robertson (Lieutenant-Colonel.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut
Author: William CothrenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bethlehem (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Arthur Young's Travels in France
Author: Arthur YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Black Hearts
Author: Jim FrederickPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307450988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
“Riveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can transform into monsters.”—New York Times Book Review This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment—a unit known as “the Black Heart Brigade.” Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq’s so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the country’s most dangerous location at its most dangerous time. Hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb attacks, suffering from a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring a chronic breakdown in leadership, members of one Black Heart platoon—1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion—descended, over their year-long tour of duty, into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse, and brutality. Four 1st Platoon soldiers would perpetrate one of the most heinous war crimes U.S. forces have committed during the Iraq War—the rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-blooded execution of her and her family. Three other 1st Platoon soldiers would be overrun at a remote outpost—one killed immediately and two taken from the scene, their mutilated corpses found days later booby-trapped with explosives. Black Hearts is an unflinching account of the epic, tragic deployment of 1st Platoon. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with Black Heart soldiers and first-hand reporting from the Triangle of Death, Black Hearts is a timeless story about men in combat and the fragility of character in the savage crucible of warfare. But it is also a timely warning of new dangers emerging in the way American soldiers are led on the battlefields of the twenty-first century.
Farragut, and Our Naval Commanders
Author: Joel Tyler HeadleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A Thesaurus of English Word Roots
Author: Horace Gerald DannerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442233265
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1007
Book Description
Horace G. Danner’s A Thesaurus of English Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used word roots of the English language. As Timothy B. Noone notes in his foreword: “Dr. Danner’s book allows you not only to build up your passive English vocabulary, resulting in word recognition knowledge, but also gives you the rudiments for developing your active English vocabulary, making it possible to infer the meaning of words with which you are not yet acquainted. Your knowledge can now expand and will do so exponentially as your awareness of the roots in English words and your corresponding ability to decode unfamiliar words grows apace. This is the beginning of a fine mental linguistic library: so enjoy!” In A Thesaurus of English Word Roots, all word roots are listed alphabetically, along with the Greek or Latin words from which they derive, together with the roots’ original meanings. If the current meaning of an individual root differs from the original meaning, that is listed in a separate column. In the examples column, the words which contain the root are then listed, starting with their prefixes, for example, dysacousia, hyperacousia. These root-starting terms then are followed by terms where the root falls behind the word, e.g., acouesthesia and acoumeter. These words are followed by words where the root falls in the middle or the end, as in such terms as bradyacusia and odynacusis.. In this manner, A Thesaurus of English Word Roots places the word in as many word families as there are elements in the word. This work will interest linguists and philologists and anyone interested in the etymological aspects of English language.
Germany and the Next War
Author: Friedrich von BernhardiPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The content of this book is both unpleasant and fascinating at the same time. The views put forward by the author in the period just before the outbreak of WW1 are abhorrent to most people now but Bernhardi had not lived through a world war. Nonetheless, he sees war as 'A biological necessity' for a country's advancement.