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Free Download Ride the thunder: a Vietnam War story of honor and triumph By Botkin, Richard;Vietnam
2009 | 652 Pages | ISBN: 193507105X | EPUB | 5 MB
In Ride the Thunder: A Vietnam War Story of Honor and Triumph, Richard Botkin breaks new ground in telling the heroic story of a few American and Vietnamese Marines who fought brilliantly and turned the tide of the Vietnam War.Botkin recounts the exploits of the U.S. Marines and their Vietnamese allies largely responsible for thwarting the Communist invasion of South Vietnam-known as the Easter Offensive of 1972. These are the men who rode the thunder and almost saved a nation.The book is brimming with new information about these old battles, including: How Colonel G.H. Turley found himself suddenly serving as chief advisor to the Third ARVN Division and how his command decisions helped defeat the Easter Offensive; how the incredible American effort to destroy the Dong Ha Bridge halted the Communist advance; how South Vietnamese Marines were winning on the battlefield and then suffered terribly after the war during the re-education process.Richard Botkin’s book provides…

Free Download Philip Kaplan, "Rolling Thunder: A Century of Tank Warfare"
English | 2014 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 1781592438 | EPUB | 20,7 mb
The tank is such a characteristic feature of modern warfare that its difficult to imagine a time when its presence wasn’t felt on the battlefield in some form or another. This volume, from eminent historian and author Philip Kaplan, traces the history of the vehicle from its developmental early days on the battlefields of the Great War, to modern-day uses and innovations in response to the growing demands of twenty-first century warfare.

Free Download 1809: Thunder on the Danube – Napoleon’s Defeat of the Habsburgs, Vol. 2: The Fall of Vienna and the Battle of Aspern By John H. Gill
2009 | 512 Pages | ISBN: 184832510X | EPUB | 10 MB
In the second volume of this epic work, John H. Gill traces Napoleon’s progress as he sought to complete his victory over the Habsburgs. The war had erupted on April 10th with Austria’s invasion of Germany and Italy. After just two weeks, Napoleon had battered the Habsburg Archduke Charles in a series of bruising defeats. This volume begins with a Napoleon astride the Danube at Regensburg. He faced a critical strategic choice – whether to pursue the injured Austrian main army into Bohemia or march directly for Vienna, the seat of Habsburg power.After electing to target Vienna, his troops defeated the Austrians in the brutal Battle of Ebelsberg, allowing him to enter the city on May 13th. But meanwhile, on the far side of the Danube, he suffered a dramatic loss at the grueling, two-day Battle of Aspern. While his Danube forces recovered from this setback, the Emperor cleared trouble from his strategic flanks.Gill describes in vivid detail the hopeful Habsburg invasion of Italy, led by the 27-year-old Archduke Johann, and the fierce French counter-offensive under Napoleon’s stepson, Eugene de Beauharnais (also aged 27). In a series of encounters across Italy, de Beauharnais rebounded from initial defeat to advance triumphantly into Austrian territory, shattering and scattering Johann’s army. In the wake of Aspern, while the Austrians vacillated, Napoleon gathered every man, horse and gun around Vienna, setting the stage for the gigantic spectacle of the Battle of Wagram, the final chapter in the story of the 1809 war.

Free Download The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0062956671 | 288 Pages | EPUB | 3.4 MB
An extraordinary new novel from Jasmine Warga, Newbery Honor-winning author of Other Words for Home, about loss and healing-and how friendship can be magical.

Free Download The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder: And Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns
by Stew Magnuson
English | 2020 | ASIN: B086YDZMG2 | 511 Pages | ePUB | 1.43 MB

Free Download Don Harward, "Distant Thunder: Helicopter Pilot’s Letters from War in Iraq and Afghanistan"
English | 2012 | pages: 214 | ISBN: 1908117281 | PDF | 76,4 mb
Distant Thunder details the engrossing experiences of a helicopter pilot’s tales of war told through letters that come straight from the heart. Often the author labored well into the night after a mission still wearing the dusty flight suit which bore witness to the events he penned.