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Aircraft Markings of the Strategic Air Command, 1946-1953 - Rick Rodrigues

In the aftermath of World War II, the Continental Air Command was redesignated as the Strategic Air Command (SAC). This book comprehensively documents SAC tactical aircraft markings from the organisation's inception in 1946 to the end of the tail-marking era in April 1953. The SAC's history is described along with the evolution of its aircraft markings policy; basic definitions on aircraft markings terminology; and individual unit sections on SAC's bombardment, strategic reconnaissance and fighter..

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Crisis of Command in the Army of the Potomac - Sheridan's Search for an Effective General - Jay W. Simson

With the ascendancy of Ulysses S Grant in late 1863, the command tone of the United States Army underwent a dramatic change. Phillip Sheridan set about reorganizing the command to reflect Grant's new style. During the last six months of the war, he relieved three generals of their commands due to their inability to follow his orders precisely.

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McClellan and the Union High Command, 1861-1863 - Leadership Gaps That Cost a Timely Victory - Jeffrey W. Green

With Washington's proximity to the Confederate capital of Richmond, Union military operations in the first two years of the Civil War focused mainly on the Eastern Theater, where General McClellan commanded the Army of the Potomac. McClellan's \On to Richmond\ battle cry dominated strategic thinking in the high command. When he failed and was sacked by President Lincoln, a coterie of senior officers sought his return. This re-examination of the high command and McClellan's war in the East provides..

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Union General John A. McClernand and the Politics of Command - Christopher C. Meyers

John A. McClernand was a career politician, and those ambitions and qualities continued during his Civil War service. A member of the Illinois General Assembly and a U.S. Representative for 10 years, McClernard was connected to other prominent figures of the time such as Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. However, he is best known for his rivalry with Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and this biography balances McClernard's political career with his military leadership and his place in the Union command..

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The U.S. Navy at Normandy - Landing Craft Organization and Activities in the D-Day Invasion - Greg H. Williams

Describes the Allied naval command structure for Operation Neptune and offers a comprehensive look at integrated offshore operations - how they were organised, who the sailors were and what they experienced.

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Combat Operations of the Korean War - Ground, Air, Sea, Special and Covert - Paul M. Edwards

Offers information on the military operations carried out under United Nations command as part of the Korean War. This title provides an introductory history of the Korean War and a chronology of Korean War operations.

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The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914 - How Faulty Reconnaissance Exposed the Weakness of the Schlieffen Plan - Dennis Showalter

Examines the structural failures that frustrated the Germans in the war's crucial initial campaign, the invasion of Belgium. Too much routine in planning, command and execution led to groupthink, inflexibility and to an overconfident belief that nothing could go too terribly wrong.

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Stonewall Jackson and Religious Faith in Military Command - Kenneth E. Hall

The book begins with an introduction to the Confederate general, largely from the perspective of those who lived with and served under him. The author analyzes the extent to which Jackson's national zeal has elevated him to the status of a religious martyr, remembered today within an epic frame of sainthood and heroism.

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The Franz Josef Land Archipelago - E.B.Baldwin's Journal of the Wellman Polar Expedition, 1898-1899 - E.B. Baldwin

Franz Josef Land is a forbidding place, isolated by geography and history. Walter Wellman led the first American expedition to the archipelago as part of a polar expedition in 1898-1899. His second-in-command, Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, kept a journal documenting their trip.

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Fundamentals of Film Directing - David K. Irving

Provides an outline of ten fundamentals for aspiring film directors. The chapters are practical in nature: a successful director must first have a screenplay, including the development of craft, command, pace, luck, and \chutzpah\, which the author defines as \boldness coupled with extreme self-confidence.\

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The Indiana Jackass Regiment in the Civil War - A History of the 21st Infantry / 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment, with a Roster - Phillip E. Faller

Contains never before published information, including artillery firing tables, for an Indiana infantry regiment converted to heavy artillery. It concentrates upon these Hoosiers' three-and-a-half years of duty in the Trans-Mississippi Theater and Gulf states during the Civil War, often as a separate command.

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Hoplites at War - A Comprehensive Analysis of Heavy Infantry Combat in the Greek World, 750-100 bce - Paul M. Bardunias

It has been 2500 years since the Greek heavy infantry known as hoplites dominated the battlefield. Drawing on classical literature, archaeology and the latest data from physical, behavioral and medical science, this study of hoplite equipment, tactics and command seeks to separate modern myths from observable facts.

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Architect of Death at Auschwitz - A Biography of Rudolf Hoss - John W. Primomo

Rudolf Hoss has been called the greatest mass murderer in history. As the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz, he supervised the killing of more than 1.1 million people. This biography follows Hoss throughout his life, from his childhood through his Nazi command and eventual reckoning at Nuremberg.

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The United States Army Second Division Northwest of Chateau Thierry in World War I - John W. Thomason

In 1927, at the request of his superiors, John W Thomason set out to chronicle the history of the US Army 2nd Division. The project ran into trouble, however, when Thomason made unflattering discoveries regarding command decisions of both Army and Marine officers. This book contains Thomason's manuscript.

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Evelyn Brent - The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook - Lynn Kear

Evelyn Brent's life and career were going quite well in 1928. She was happily living with writer Dorothy Herzog following her divorce from producer Bernard Fineman, and the tiny brunette had wowed fans and critics in the silent films \\The Underworld\\ and \\The Last Command\\. This biography details Brent's story.

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Rehearsing for Doomsday - Memoir of a Nuclear Missile Crew Commander - Scott Cook

This frank, entertaining memoir describes the insular and secretive military subculture of men and women who lived with the sobering burden of potentially unleashing global devastation, and how an easy-going gym coach ended up in an organisation whose unofficial motto was \\To err is human; to forgive is not Strategic Air Command policy.\

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Lost in the Sun - The Comebacks and Comedowns of Major League Ballplayers - G. Richard McKelvey

Baseball players, have their ups and downs. Pitchers inexplicably lose their command of the strike zone, and batters think themselves into deep slumps. This book focuses on players whose determination in the face of injury or private demons landed them back in the big leagues and stars who never recovered from their dramatic, unexpected falls.

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The Making of a Spy - Memoir of a German Boy Soldier Turned American Army Intelligence Agent - Gerhardt B. Thamm

Leaving the chaos of postwar Germany for an uncertain future, 16-year-old Gerhardt Thamm arrived in America in 1948 with little more than his American birth certificate. With minimal command of English and little formal education, he enlisted in the Army and found himself assigned to operations where his German language abilities were put to use.

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The Kaiser's Last General - The East Africa Campaign and the Hunt for Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, 1914-1918 - R.G. Gladding

Promoted to major-general by the Kaiser in 1917, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck led the only undefeated German force to surrender to the Allies, well after the end of hostilities in Europe. This history follows what began as a campaign of conquest and devolved into a hunt for a single general and his small, loyal command.

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Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart at the Western Front, 1915 - Ed Klekowski

By 1915, the Western Front was a 450 mile line of trenches, barbed wire and concrete bunkers. Remarkably, the Allied command gave two American women, Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart, permission to visit the front and report on what they saw. Their travels are reconstructed from their own published accounts, Rinehart's day-by-day notes, and the writings of other journalists.

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Rear Admiral Larry Chambers, USN - First African American to Command an Aircraft Carrier - Ric Murphy

The first African-American aircraft carrier commander, Rear Admiral Lawrence Cleveland Chambers (1929- ) played a prominent role as captain of the USS Midway during the Vietnam War. During the evacuation of Saigon--known as Operation Frequent Wind--he famously ordered several UH-1 helicopters pushed overboard to make room for an escaping South Vietnamese Air Force major to land his Cessna. Chambers, who had only commanded Midway for a few weeks, gave the order believing (wrongly) that he would be..

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William B. Cushing in the Far East - A Civil War Naval Hero Abroad, 1865-1869 - Julian R. McQuiston

Fresh from success in sinking the Albermarle in the Civil War, the young Captain Cushing was assigned to command the gunboat USS Maumie in Hong Kong to aid the restoration of America's naval power in Asia. By linking such aims to British policy, and by courting Chinese and Japanese officials, he succeeded in re-establishing American naval and commercial power in the Far East.

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The Early Air War in the Pacific - Ten Months That Changed the Course of World War II - Ralph F. Wetterhahn

During the first 10 months of the war in the Pacific, Japan achieved air supremacy with its carrier and land-based forces. After major setbacks at Midway and at Guadalcanal, the empire's expansion stalled, in part due to flaws in aircraft design, strategy and command. This book offers a fresh analysis of the air war in the Pacific during the early phases of World War II.

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Francis Bacon - The Double-Edged Life of the Philosopher and Statesman - Robert P. Ellis

Around the time Shakespeare inaugurated the gilded age of English drama, the young Francis Bacon proposed to take \all knowledge to be my province\. He soon realized the difficulty of his task, but in the process of his study he posed two related questions which he understood better than any other man of his time: can human beings respect and obey nature, and can they also command nature?

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The Union Sixth Army Corps in the Chancellorsville Campaign - A Study of the Engagements of Second Fredericksburg, Salem Church and Banks's Ford, May

The winter of 1862-1863 found the Union Army of the Potomac in sad shape, after bloody battles, multiple defeats, lack of adequate provisions and high desertion rates. When Major General Joseph Hooker took command, he set about revamping conditions. Instructed by President Lincoln to make the destruction of General Lee''s Army of Northern Virginia the Union''s top priority, Hooker mounted the Chancellorsville Campaign. Lee''s aggressive battlefield manner coupled with Hooker''s failure to initiate..

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Aircraft Markings of the Strategic Air Command, 1946-1953 - Rick Rodrigues

Crisis of Command in the Army of the Potomac - Sheridan's Search for an Effective General - Jay W. Simson

McClellan and the Union High Command, 1861-1863 - Leadership Gaps That Cost a Timely Victory - Jeffrey W. Green

Union General John A. McClernand and the Politics of Command - Christopher C. Meyers

The U.S. Navy at Normandy - Landing Craft Organization and Activities in the D-Day Invasion - Greg H. Williams

Combat Operations of the Korean War - Ground, Air, Sea, Special and Covert - Paul M. Edwards

The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914 - How Faulty Reconnaissance Exposed the Weakness of the Schlieffen Plan - Dennis Showalter

Stonewall Jackson and Religious Faith in Military Command - Kenneth E. Hall

The Franz Josef Land Archipelago - E.B.Baldwin's Journal of the Wellman Polar Expedition, 1898-1899 - E.B. Baldwin

Fundamentals of Film Directing - David K. Irving

The Indiana Jackass Regiment in the Civil War - A History of the 21st Infantry / 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment, with a Roster - Phillip E. Faller

Hoplites at War - A Comprehensive Analysis of Heavy Infantry Combat in the Greek World, 750-100 bce - Paul M. Bardunias

Architect of Death at Auschwitz - A Biography of Rudolf Hoss - John W. Primomo

The United States Army Second Division Northwest of Chateau Thierry in World War I - John W. Thomason

Evelyn Brent - The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook - Lynn Kear

Rehearsing for Doomsday - Memoir of a Nuclear Missile Crew Commander - Scott Cook

Lost in the Sun - The Comebacks and Comedowns of Major League Ballplayers - G. Richard McKelvey

The Making of a Spy - Memoir of a German Boy Soldier Turned American Army Intelligence Agent - Gerhardt B. Thamm

The Kaiser's Last General - The East Africa Campaign and the Hunt for Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, 1914-1918 - R.G. Gladding

Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart at the Western Front, 1915 - Ed Klekowski

Rear Admiral Larry Chambers, USN - First African American to Command an Aircraft Carrier - Ric Murphy

William B. Cushing in the Far East - A Civil War Naval Hero Abroad, 1865-1869 - Julian R. McQuiston

The Early Air War in the Pacific - Ten Months That Changed the Course of World War II - Ralph F. Wetterhahn

Francis Bacon - The Double-Edged Life of the Philosopher and Statesman - Robert P. Ellis

The Union Sixth Army Corps in the Chancellorsville Campaign - A Study of the Engagements of Second Fredericksburg, Salem Church and Banks's Ford, May