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Free Download Impossible Victory: How Iraq Defeated ISIS by Haider Al-Abadi
English | October 6, 2022 | ISBN: 1785907352 | 352 pages | EPUB | 2.52 Mb
By 2014, the world had grown weary of Iraq and its troubles. The Americans had all but gone and the media had switched its gaze towards Syria, but Iraq’s problems were far from over. That same year, ISIS put Iraq back on the map as they crossed the border from Syria and rampaged through the country, kidnapping, raping and killing, and enforcing their murderous interpretation of Sharia law. Saddam Hussein, the occupation, sectarian war, corruption and political instability had collectively laid the groundwork for further violence, and Iraqis were about to see the worst of it.

Free Download Allied Victory Over Japan 1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Achieves (Images of War) by Jon Diamond
English | December 30th, 2023 | ISBN: 1399042882 | 232 pages | True EPUB | 58.09 MB
"Jon Diamond is to be commended for his attention to detail, great use of maps and amazing photographs." – IPMS/USA

Free Download Miroslav Sedivy, "The Victory of Realism: The German Quest for International Security 1839-1853"
English | ISBN: 3506795406 | 2024 | 424 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The book investigates the quest for international security in mid-19th century Germany from a new and inspiring perspective. Under the influence of international events, Germans believed that they lived in dangerous times when relations between countries and nations were increasingly defined by the law of the strongest instead of written law. Regardless of their origin, political views, gender and social status they participated in debates about the future of Germany, Europe and the world and tried to determine how to better ensure external security, develop justice and achieve a more stable peace. This fundamental but hitherto historiographically neglected process became manifest in numerous phenomena analysed independently in the past such as the participation in the organised peace movement, the rise of German nationalism, the call for land and naval armaments, the aspiration to colonial expansion, the birth of Realpolitik and the concept of Mitteleuropa, and the deterioration in relations and wars with other nations. Although it did not last long, the process became significant for the negative consequences it had for the rest of the century. For today’s reader it presents a warning about how society is impacted and the stability of an international order is undermined by a declining confidence in international justice and the durability of peace.

Free Download Winston S. Churchill, "Onwards to Victory (Winston S. Churchill War Speeches)"
English | 2013 | ASIN: B07NMSJ3Q7 | EPUB | pages: 417 | 3.4 mb
In the fourth volume of the British prime minister’s legendary wartime speeches, the tides are turning and an Allied victory is within reach.

Free Download Daniel Pipes, "Israel Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated"
English | ASIN : B0D6G71ZFT | 2024 | 336 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict will come to an acceptable conclusion only with a Palestinian sense of defeat.

Free Download Kate Simkins, John Kelly, "The Price of Victory (Graphic Readers Level 4)"
English | 2007 | pages: 52 | ISBN: 1405318392 | PDF | 11,4 mb
Witness a tale of rivalry and sabotage at the Olympic Games. Watch the past come to life in this gripping comic-book tale. Travel back in time to the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece and meet Pylades and his brother Kinesias, a champion athlete. From falling statues to sinking boats, join the brothers on their dangerous adventure, as it becomes clear someone wants to murder Kinesias before he can compete. But can they stop the person behind this dastardly assassination Description before the Games begin?

Free Download Col. David Pergrin – Engineering the Victory: The Battle of the Bulge: A History
Schiffer Publishing | 1996 | ISBN: 0764301632 | English | 456 pages | PDF | 160.58 MB
The Battle Of the Bulge, in December 1944, was Hitler and the Wehrmacht’s last great battle of World War II in the West. After losing the war for the beaches and hedgerows of Normandy, and barely escaping with huge losses from the Falaise pocket, the German Army fell back to just West of the Rhine and the German border. Hitler and his Generals planned a massive counter stroke and marshaled the forces to make it work. Striking in surprise on December 16, 1944 in the weakly defended Ardennes, German thrusts moved quickly to put Allied forces on the defensive. The Battle of the Bulge was that ensuing great battle. In this book Colonel David Pergrin reaches out for the other stories of that battle. Assisted by the Army Engineer Association, he has gathered numerous battlefield stories, anecdotes, and experiences told by those who were there and who lived them. With his own battlefield experience providing an understanding of people in war, he has crafted an interesting book that tells those stories of engineers in battle. Many of the participants in that great battle have never been recognized for their exploits. The stories Dave Pergrin has collected in this book bring attention to engineer soldiers in combat and construction units who fought and died with their comrades of infantry, tankers, artillery, and the others – units that have not before been accorded their due. Weaving these stories and vignettes together into the framework of the overall battle, this book honors the many engineer soldiers, their companies and battalions, that contributed greatly to the allied to the allied defeat of the Germans.

Free Download Cribs for Victory: The Untold Story of Bletchley Park’s Secret Room By Neil Webster
2011 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 0955954185 | EPUB | 2 MB
Cribs For Victory is a posthumous account of the secret code-breaking process in Bletchley Park’s Fusion Room during World War II by Major Neil Webster, one of the key members of the team involved. The Fusion Room was the central unit where decrypted German messages obtained from Hut 6 were compared with the corresponding data extracted by the log readers from the daily radio traffic between enemy stations, thus enabling a complete wartime picture of the enemy order of battle to be constructed. Neil Webster’s liaison role between traffic analysis and cryptography meant he was centrally involved in the search for ‘cribs’ – short pieces of enciphered text where the meaning is either known or can be guessed, allowing the whole cipher to be broken. His book describes this intensive search in detail, the intellectual and technical challenge, the personal stories, the setbacks and the triumphs. Security clearance for publication of his first-hand account was only granted in 2010, more than 20 years after his death. Was it too close to the real truth about how Enigma was broken and the inner workings of British intelligence? Webster’s daughter, Joss Pearson, believes her father’s book was just too clear, both about the relationship between signals intelligence and cryptography, and about the habits of the German military mind that opened the door to understanding Enigma.

Free Download Wesley Olson – Bitter Victory: The Death of HMAS Sydney
Naval Institute Press | 2002 | ISBN: 1591140668 | English | 454 pages | PDF | 166.81 MB
On 11 November 1941, the cruiser HMAS Sydney sailed from the Australian port of Freemantle on a routine escort mission. Though scheduled to return on 20 November, it never arrived. Reports of a sea battle with a German cruiser whose survivors were rescued from rafts in the Sunda Straight added to the mystery that has continued to baffle government officials, historians, and the public for over fifty years. Author Wesley Owen re-opens the case in an attempt to answer the questions: Why did the Sydney sink? How did it disappear without a trace? And why were there no survivors? By examining every piece of available evidence and carefully reconstructing the event through eye-witness accounts, Olson has produced both a compelling narrative and the most persuasive explanation yet for the mystery and tragedy of the HMAS Sydney.

Free Download Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars by Vincent OHara, Leonard R Heinz
English | April 15, 2022 | ISBN: 1682477320 | 336 pages | EPUB | 21 Mb
Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars studies how the world’s navies incorporated new technologies into their ships, their practices, and their doctrine. It does this by examining six core technologies fundamental to twentieth-century naval warfare including new platforms (submarines and aircraft), new weapons (torpedoes and mines), and new tools (radar and radio). Each chapter considers the state of a subject technology when it was first used in war and what navies expected of it. It then looks at the way navies discovered and developed the technology’s best use, in many cases overcoming disappointed expectations. It considers how a new technology threatened its opponents, not to mention its users, and how those threats were managed. Innovating Victory shows that the use of technology is more than introducing and mastering a new weapon or system. Differences in national resources, force mixtures, priorities, perceptions, and missions forced nations to approach the problems presented by new technologies in different ways. Navies that specialized in specific technologies often held advantages over enemies in some areas but found themselves disadvantaged in others. Vincent P. O’Hara and Leonard R. Heinz present new perspectives and explore the process of technological introduction and innovation in a way that is relevant to today’s navies, which face challenges and questions even greater than those of 1904, 1914, and 1939.