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Author: Susan R. Matthews
Publisher: Eos
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780380803156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA devout member of an orthodox faith tracks down her brother, who has run off to embrace a heresy faith. But when she gets to the enemy enclave, her life is ripped in two. A woman there shows signs of being the Prophesied One.
Author: Elle James
Publisher: Elle James
Published: 2019-04-23
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1626952299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen their father disappears into the Crazy Mountains, the McKinnon boys rally... Angus McKinnon, the oldest son leaves the elite Delta Forces, returns to Montana and takes up the reins on the family ranch. The last person he expects to run into is the beauty who broke his heart. Bree Lansing promised to wait for Angus but a violent confrontation with her stepfather left her no choice. She had to leave. Later she learned her stepfather had died in the same barn where their fight occurred. Bree is afraid that if she returns to Montana, she will be charged with his murder. When her mother is poisoned, Bree returns home to face her guilt and fear and find out who will kill to get her family out of the way. Though fate forces Bree to work with Angus to discover the source of the poison, she’s determined to keep the man she once loved at a distance. She can’t let him close when her secret could ruin her life and his. Struggling to keep Bree safe and find his father, Angus risks losing his heart again to the only woman he ever loved.
Author: Louise Spilsbury
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 143398654X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMade of snow, ice, and rocks, avalanches can start in a variety of ways, including by people. Readers will explore the causes and effects of different kinds of avalanches through fact-filled and accessible content. Real-life photographs will engage readers while reinforcing the science concepts behind examples of modern, devastating avalanches. Enhanced by interesting fact boxes and timelines of real avalanches, readers will be guided through safety and disaster relief so they’ll be able to act if caught out in the cold when the snow starts to fall.
Author: U.S. Army Mountain Warfare School
Publisher: Jeffrey Frank Jones
Published:
Total Pages: 563
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCONTENTS: Basic Military Mountaineer Course Student Handout - 2019 Advanced Military Mountaineer Course Summer Student Handout - MAY-SEP 2019 Advanced Military Mountaineer Course Winter Student Handout JAN-MAR 2019 Military Mountaineer Course Knot Guide (No Date) Infantry Small-Unit Mountain Operations - February 2011 Commander’s Welcome and Comments 1. Welcome to the Army Mountain Warfare School (AMWS). During this course, you will receive some of the finest training the US Army has to offer. Our instructors are ready to pass on knowledge gained from years of experience and multiple combat deployments.While you are here, our first concern is for your safety. For this reason, you must be totally focused and maintain situational awareness at all times. 2. Operating in the mountains presents two distinct yet related challenges; first is the severe affects that weather and the environment have on personnel and equipment and second thes evere impact the terrain has on unit mobility. How well you solve these tactical problems will directly affect your ability to take the fight to the enemy in level two and three terrain.The skills you learn here at AMWS are tools to help you and your unit solve these challenges. 3. In the mountains of Afghanistan we face an adaptive, clever enemy who uses the harsh environment to his advantage to operate against us. With specialized mountain warfare training and equipment we can use that same terrain to our advantage and seize the initiative away from the enemy. 4. Untrained and unprepared, the mountain environment can be your worst enemy. Properly trained and equipped, it can be your strongest ally. We will give you the training. The rest is up to you. “Training Mountain Warriors!”
Author: Thomas Childers
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0618773681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called "Good War." The Greatest Generation, we're told by Tom Brokaw and others, fought heroically, then returned to America happy, healthy and well-adjusted. They quickly and cheerfully went on with the business of rebuilding their lives. In this shocking and hauntingly beautiful book, historian Thomas Childers shatters that myth. He interweaves the intimate story of three families--including his own--with a decades' worth of research to paint an entirely new picture of the war's aftermath. Drawing on government documents, interviews, oral histories and diaries, he reveals that 10,000 veterans a month were being diagnosed with psycho-neurotic disorder (now known as PTSD). Alcoholism, homelessness, and unemployment were rampant, leading to a skyrocketing divorce rate. Many veterans bounced back, but their struggle has been lost in a wave of nostalgia that threatens to undermine a new generation of returning soldiers. Novelistic in its telling and impeccably researched, Childers's book is a stark reminder that the price of war is unimaginably high. The consequences are human, not just political, and the toll can stretch across generations.
Author: Chris McNab
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-05-28
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 1472838327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring World War II, the US Army and its allies faced a formidable challenge: the need to assault Hitler's 'Fortress Europe' from the sea. As a result, during 1941–45, the US Army had to add amphibious assault to its list of combat capabilities. Officers and troops from across the US Armed Forces had to develop the techniques and technologies to assault the coasts of Axis-occupied Europe, from logistics to beach assault and beachhead consolidation, and more. In order to win and hold a contested beachhead in the face of bitter enemy resistance, the amphibious-warfare specialists played a variety of essential battlefield roles; if the US troops could not establish a beachhead quickly, they risked being thrown back into the sea. For their part, the Germans had to devise a practical defensive doctrine that made the most of the limited resources and troops available and the terrain. The German infantry defenders immediately around the landing areas had to be able to call upon support from nearby artillery, mechanized troops, and armoured forces to have a chance of containing the enemy beachhead. This illustrated study analyses the specialist beach-landing troops involved in three key battles – the Allied amphibious landings at Salerno and Anzio in Italy, and Omaha Beach in Normandy – focusing upon the US Army's various types of beach-assault specialists and their German opponents, whose combat experience and effectiveness varied considerably. Each of the three featured battles is then examined in detail, exploring how the Germans made defensive preparations; how the US troops planned to overcome them; and the immediate actions undertaken by the US amphibious specialists and their German opponents both during and following the main assault landings.
Author: Mick Davis
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: 2024-08-13
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1977278019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRunning with the bulls in old Pamplona, Spain is not a sport for young ladies, but Manuela does it and life changes forever. The Queen's lover dies and Fernando, Manuela's lover is blamed. He, Fernando, flees and is assumed dead. A Spanish civil war forces Manuela's family to flee to colonial California, but along the way loved ones are lost. Manuela disguises herself and becomes her dead twin brother. Meanwhile, in Spain, a Cain and Abel event developed between identical brothers over the far away Manuela. Each brother follows her but in the end truth prevails. This saga, set in the mid 1800's in Spain and in and round the missions and churches of Carmel and Monterey California - The Soldiers Chapel - is rich in history, love lost and found and human, religious and civil tragedy.
