The Most Daring Raid Of The Samurai

Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448818729
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Most Daring Raid of the Samurai written by Stephen Turnbull and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the 1609 raid from Satsuma against Ryåukyåu, detailing the events leading up to the raid, the strategic plans over both land and sea, and the aftermath of the successful raid.

Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448818672
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Most Daring Raid of World War II written by Steven J. Zaloga and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the 1944 Allied raid to secure Pointe-du-Hoc during D-Day in World War II, including the army forces who executed the raid, the challenges of securing the area, and how the raid affected the outcome of the invasion at Normandy.

Author : Will Fowler
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448818710
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counterterrorism in West Africa written by Will Fowler and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a scene-by-scene account of the SAS (Special Air Service) and Operation Barras in Sierra Leone in 2000. Written by a military expert, the narrative offers a gripping description of the events that led up to the operation and the outcome. Fascinating photographs and illustrations provide a full experience of this daring and successful rescue mission.

Author : Simon Dunstan
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448818680
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entebbe written by Simon Dunstan and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Israeli Forces' operation at Entebbe was one of the most daring counter-terrorist assaults of all time. This book explores this important piece of history with lively narration and accessible illustrations and diagrams. Sidebars and maps round out the learning experience.

Author : Lynette Silver
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850523346
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heroes of Rimau written by Lynette Silver and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1991-10-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 11, 1944, the British submarine "Porpoise" slipped quietly from Fremantle Harbour, bound for Indonesia. It was carrying the 23 Australian and British members of Operation Rimau who, under the leadership of the remarkable Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan Lyon of the Gordon Highlanders, intended to repeat the successful Jaywick raid of 1943 by blowing up 60 ships in Japanese-occupied Singapore Harbour, 19 days later, the preliminary part of the operation successfully completed, the submarine commander bade farewell to the raiders at Pedjantan Island, promising to return to pick them up in 38 days' time. A handful of Chinese and Malays and the conquering Japanese were the only people ever to see the 23 men again. According to the scant official post-war record, the mission was an utter failure. All of the party were captured of killed - ten of them beheaded in Singapore only five weeks before the Japanese surrender in, it was claimed, a ceremonial execution. The fate of eleven of the others remains officially unknown. After a 31 year search, Major Tom Hall, with the assistance of writer Lynette Silver, has overturned the official version and uncovered the truth. Aided by thousands of Japanese and Allied documents and by the first-hand accounts of several Indonesians and Malays, sole witnesses to the events of 1944, they have established the fate of every member of the party and unravelled the story of "The Heroes of Rimau" - a story that has for 45 years been all but lost, distorted by hearsay and fantasy, by military cover-ups and conspiracy, by official bungling, ineptitude and apathy. This book not only chronicles a feat of extraordinary daring in the face of overwhelming odds - a gripping tale of inspired courage, self-sacrifice and eventual tragedy - it also exposes the appalling sequence of events which has, until now, resulted in the shameful suppression of the truth about one of the most amazing stories to emerge from World War II.

Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780962274
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Samurai Capture a King written by Stephen Turnbull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant but little-known operation, the Shimazu clan raid on the independent kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) in 1609 is one of the most extraordinary episodes in samurai history and the culmination of centuries of rivalry between the two powers. The defeat of the Shimazu at Sekigahara in 1600, and their need to win favour with the new Shogun, led them to hatch an audacious plot to attack the islands on the Shogun's behalf and bring back the king of Ryukyu as a hostage. Stephen Turnbull gives a blow-by-blow account of the operation, from the daring Shimazu amphibious landing, to their rapid advance overland, and the tactical feigned retreat that saw the Shimazu defeat the Okinawan army and kidnap their king in spectacular fashion. With a detailed background and specially commissioned artwork, the scene is set for a dramatic retelling of this fascinating raid.

Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Star Science Fiction Stories written by Frederik Pohl and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank W. Thackeray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598849026
Total Pages : 1908 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Events That Formed the Modern World [5 volumes] written by Frank W. Thackeray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 1908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive five-volume set contains readable essays that describe and interpret the most important global events since the European Renaissance, some accompanied by related document excerpts and primary source materials. What were the effects of the Age of Exploration on today's ethnic groups and social structure? How did the development of moveable type pave the way for Facebook and Twitter? Why is the Reformation so critical for understanding today's religious controversies? This set will help readers answer these questions by exploring the most significant historical events of the modern world. This five-volume set covers times from the Renaissance to the present. Each volume focuses on a specific historic period and examines 12 events within those time frames that changed the world. Each entry provides an introduction that lays out factual material in a chronological manner, an in-depth essay interpreting the event's significance, and an annotated bibliography of the most important current works on the topic. Select entries are followed by primary sources pertaining to the event under consideration, such as diary entries. Targeted to both general readers as well as entry-level university students, this book also directly supports high school and undergraduate curricula, allowing students to identify and contextualize events in order to think critically about their causes, aftermath, and legacy.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Author : H.W. Crocker III
Publisher : Crown Forum
ISBN 13 : 0307352269
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Tread on Me written by H.W. Crocker III and published by Crown Forum. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Did America win its independence because British generals were too busy canoodling with their mistresses? • Should America have annexed Mexico—all of it—and Cuba too? • Did 1776 justify Southern secession in the nineteenth century? • Should Patton have been promoted over Eisenhower? • Did the U.S. military win—and Congress lose—the Vietnam War? • Was it right to depose Saddam Hussein—and is it wrong to worry about a possible Iraqi civil war? The answer to these questions is a resounding yes, says author H. W. Crocker III in this stirring and contrarian new book. In Don’t Tread on Me, Crocker unfolds four hundred years of American military history, revealing how Americans were born Indian fighters whose military prowess carved out first a continental and then a global empire—a Pax Americana that has been a benefit to the world. From the seventeenth century on, he argues, Americans have shown a jealous regard for their freedom—and have backed it up with an unheralded skill in small-unit combat operations, a tradition that includes Rogers’ Rangers, Merrill’s Marauders, and today’s Special Forces. He shows that Americans were born to the foam too, with a mastery of naval gunnery and tactics that allowed America’s Navy, even in its infancy, to defeat French and British warships and expand American commerce on the seas. Most of all, Crocker highlights the courage of the dogface infantry, the fighting leathernecks, and the daring sailors and airmen who have turned the tide of battle again and again. In Don’t Tread on Me, still forests are suddenly pierced by the Rebel Yell and a surge of grey. Teddy Roosevelt’s spectacles flash in the sunlight as he leads his Rough Riders charging up San Juan Hill. American doughboys rip into close-quarters combat against the Germans. Marines drive the Japanese out of their island fortresses using flamethrowers, grenades, and guts. GIs slug their way into Hitler’s Germany. The long twilight struggle against communism is fought in the snows of Korea and the steaming jungles of Vietnam. And today, U.S. Navy SEALs and U.S. Army Rangers battle Islamist terrorists in the bleak mountains of Afghanistan, just as their forebears fought Barbary pirates two hundred years ago. Fast-paced and riveting, Don’t Tread on Me is a bold look at the history of America at war. Also available as an eBook