Tag: Force

Free Download Mission 85: The U.S. Eighth Air Force’s Battle over Holland, August 19, 1943 By Ivo De Jong
2013 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 081171201X | EPUB | 4 MB
Minute-by-minute chronicle of the U.S. Eighth Air Force’s bombing mission against German airfields in HollandMission came just days after the famous Schweinfurt-Regensburg raidThe Americans expected an easy mission, but it proved to be anything butLoaded with firsthand accounts from pilots and crews of bombers and fighters

Free Download Paul Keenan, "By Force of Arms: Armed Etnic Groups in Burma"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 9382652213 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.6 mb
Burma has been racked by extensive ethnic conflict. As numerous groups sought to secure their individual ethnic rights, successive Burmese governments sought to destroy them through numerous counter-insurgency measures, negotiated ceasefires, and by integrating them into Burma Army controlled Border Guard Forces or militias. ‘By Force of Arms’ provides background information on the numerous armed ethnic groups that have emerged in the country since independence. It highlights the various reasons for conflict and argues that while military force has been successfully used in preserving ethnic rights, as the country moves forward, new methods have to be explored. It states that for genuine peace to be attained, armed ethnic groups need to reassess their methodologies and motivations and both the Government and Non-State Armed Actors need to hold substantive political dialogue before there can be genuine peace.

Free Download Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan
English | May 14, 2024 | ISBN: 1639730648 | 352 pages | PDF | 38 Mb
"Excellent."-Wall Street Journal

Free Download Charles More, "The Road to Dunkirk: The British Expeditionary Force and the Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal, 1940"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1848327331 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 3.3 mb
This is an important reassessment of a critical period in the British Expeditionary Force’s fight against the German armies invading France in 1940. On 25 May Lord Gort, the British commander, took the decision to move 5th Division north in order to plug a growing gap in his Army’s eastern defenses. Over the next three days the division fought a little-known engagement, the Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal, to hold the Germans at bay while the rest of the BEF retreated towards Dunkirk.

Free Download The Force: The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII’s Mission Impossible, UK Edition by Saul David
English | August 15th, 2024 | ISBN: 9780008701093 | 368 pages | True EPUB | 2.82 MB
December 1943. A German fort sits impregnable atop a mountain. Standing between the Allied forces and their path to Rome is a steep climb up a 200-foot cliff, in the snow, in the middle of the night.

Free Download The Air Force Way of War: U.S. Tactics and Training after Vietnam (Aviation and Air Power) by Brian D. Laslie
English | June 23, 2015 | ISBN: 0813160596 | 260 pages | EPUB | 1.34 Mb
On December 18, 1972, more than one hundred U.S. B-52 bombers flew over North Vietnam to initiate Operation Linebacker II. During the next eleven days, sixteen of these planes were shot down and another four suffered heavy damage. These losses soon proved so devastating that Strategic Air Command was ordered to halt the bombing. The U.S. Air Force’s poor performance in this and other operations during Vietnam was partly due to the fact that they had trained their pilots according to methods devised during World War II and the Korean War, when strategic bombers attacking targets were expected to take heavy losses. Warfare had changed by the 1960s, but the USAF had not adapted. Between 1972 and 1991, however, the Air Force dramatically changed its doctrines and began to overhaul the way it trained pilots through the introduction of a groundbreaking new training program called "Red Flag."

Free Download Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory by Evan Mawdsley
English | May 14th, 2024 | ISBN: 0300255454 | 368 pages | True EPUB | 25.02 MB
The gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force-and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy

Free Download John Frayn Turner, "Periscope Patrol: The Saga of the Malta Force Submarines"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1844157245 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 3.6 mb
The Malta Force submarines had the vital task of interrupting German and Italian convoys crossing the Mediterranean to resupply Rommel and his Army in North Africa. The outcome of the Desert War depended on this.

Free Download Operation Allied Force 1999: NATO’s airpower victory in Kosovo (Air Campaign) by Brian D. Laslie
English | June 20th, 2024 | ISBN: 1472860306 | 96 pages | True EPUB | 20.11 MB
A focused, illustrated history and analysis of perhaps the most complete air power victory in modern times, NATO’s war against Serbian forces over Kosovo.

Free Download Colonel Lewis M. Boone, "Dieppe 1942: Reconnaissance In Force With Strategic Overtones"
English | 2014 | ASIN: B06XGR2JMT | EPUB | pages: 19 | 0.2 mb
In the early hours of August 19, 1942 an amphibious force of approximately 6000 troops, primarily Canadians of the 2nd Infantry Division, approached the coast of France. Their destination was the small port of Dieppe and their mission was to foster German fear of an attack in the West and compel them to strengthen their Channel defenses at the expense of other operational areas. Their secondary purpose was to learn as much as possible about new techniques and equipment and gain experience and knowledge necessary for a future great amphibious assault. By early afternoon, 807 Canadians lay dead in and around Dieppe. Another 100 would die of wounds, and in captivity, and about 1900 more would sit out the rest of the war in POW camps. The intent of this paper is not to refight the battle in detail, but to examine the strategic implications of the raid in terms of future operations by the Allies. This paper will also inform the reader on the utility of the mission given the tragic loss of life that day. Historians still debate whether Dieppe was a "needless slaughter" or a precursor for success at Normandy on 6 June 1944.