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  • Behind the Lines: A Critical Survey of Special Operations in World War II

    by Michael F Dilley ...
    The array of new technologies that came on the scene in the early 20th century resulted in widely varied new forms of military special operations once civilization embarked on its greatest war. Suddenly, fighting men could be delivered by parachute, submarine, glider, jeeps, and fast amphibious craft deep into enemy territory to perform special tasks; yet others would continue to perform missions ... Read more

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  • Rangers, Scouts, and Raiders

    Origin, Organization, and Operations of Selected Special Operations Forces

    by Michael F. Dilley ...
    "Well-written and meticulously researched, the book is an excellent example of truth being more interesting than fiction. It is easy to read with photos, charts and maps that help the reader keep pace with the action." — ARMY MagazineThroughout history there has always been a need, in military forces, for special units. In the past, these units have usually been ad hoc formations that were ... Read more

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  • From the Pleistocene to the Holocene

    Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America

    by C. Britt Bousman, Bradley J. Vierra, James M Adovasio, Charlotte Beck, Michael Bever, John Carpenter, Kurt W. Carr, James C. Chatters, Michael J. Dilley0, Boyce Driskell1, Richard T. Fitzgerald2, Steven Hackenberger3, Margaret A. Jodry4, George T. Jones5, Marvin Kay6, Mary Lou Larson7, Scott C. Meeks8, Eric Oksanen9, Anna M. Prentiss0, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal1, Guadalupe Sanchez2, M. Steven Shackley3, Sarah C. Sherwood4, Jayne-Leigh Thomas5 ...
    Series Book 17 - Texas A&M University Anthropology Series
    The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies represents the first major cultural shift that took place solely in the Americas. This event ... Read more

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  • Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism

    Theories in Tension

    by Logan Paul Gage, Bruce L. Gordon, Shawn E. Klein, Michael J. White, Jay W. Richards, John West, Benjamin Wiker, Timothy Sandefur, Peter Augustine Lawler, Roger Masters, Angus J. L. Menuge, Richard Weikart ...
    Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism canvasses an array of thinkers from the past to the present as it examines fundamental political, philosophical, ethical, economic, anthropological, and scientific aspects of the ferment between Darwinian biology and classical liberalism. Early chapters focus on classical thinkers like John Locke and Adam Smith, while later chapters provide analyses of ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • June 6, 1944

    The Voices of D-Day

    by Gerald Astor ...
    In ships and planes, they crossed the English Channel.On the other side Hitler’s army waited.And the longest day was about to begin....In the spring of 1944, 120,000 Allied soldiers crossed the English Channel in the most ambitious invasion force ever assembled. Rangers, paratroopers, infantry, and armored personnel, these soldiers--some who had just cut their teeth in Africa and Sicily and some ... Read more

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  • The Battle of the Bridges

    The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Operation Market Garden

    by Frank van Lunteren ...
    "On these pages, the human story comes to life, sometimes tragic, sometimes amusing, but always poignant and compelling" (John C. McManus, author of Fire and Fortitude).Operation Market Garden has been recorded as a complete Allied failure in World War II, an overreach that resulted in an entire airborne division being destroyed at its apex. However, within that operation were episodes of heroism ... Read more

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  • Blocking Kampfgruppe Peiper

    The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the Battle of the Bulge

    by Frank van Lunteren ...
    The account of these elite paratroopers' encounter with the Germans is " a story of raw courage in the face of seemingly impossible odds . . . a great read" ( World War II).In December 1944, an enormous German army group crashed through the thin American line in the Ardennes forest. Caught by surprise, the Allies were initially only able to throw two divisions of paratroopers to buttress the ... Read more

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  • War Stories of D-Day

    Operation Overlord: June 6, 1944

    by Michael Green, James D. Brown ...
    D-Day, June 6, 1944: it was the biggest amphibious operation in history. German Field Marshal Rommel, declared, "the enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield," the Allied Forces undertook a massive invasion of the German-occupied coast of Normandy, France. First, there was the aerial onslaught by British and American airborne divisions, then the landing of the American, ... Read more

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  • On Hallowed Ground

    The Last Battle for Pork Chop Hill

    by Bill McWilliams ...
    "Brilliantly reveals the extraordinary courage of those who fought the final, bitter, bloody, costly days of the Korean War" (Gen. Jack I. Gregory, USAF Ret.).By the summer of 1953, the Korean War had long since reached a stalemate. As peace negotiations dragged on, units of the US 7th Infantry Division rebuilt the defenses of Hill 255, one of numerous outposts in front of the Main Line of ... Read more

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  • Pacific Time on Target

    Memoirs of a Marine Artillery Officer, 1943-1945

    by Donner, Jack McCall ...
    The gritty combat memoir of a Marine Corps artilleryman and forward observerAs a married man and Stanford graduate student nearing thirty, Christopher Donner would likely have qualified for an exemption from the draft. Like most of his generation, however, he responded promptly to the call to arms after Pearl Harbor. His wartime experiences in the Pacific Theater were seared into his consciousness ... Read more

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  • Spearhead of the Fifth Army

    The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Italy, from the Winter Line to Anzio

    by Frank van Lunteren ...
    "An excellent read for anyone interested in men at war, as well as for students of the airborne operations, the Italian Campaign, and the war in Europe" ( The NYMAS Review).Upon the completion of the Sicily and Salerno Campaigns in 1943, the paratroopers of Col. Reuben Tucker's 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment were among the first Allied troops to enter Naples—a ghost town at first sight. The ... Read more

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  • Four Stars of Valor

    The Combat History of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World War II

    by Phil Nordyke ...
    Hailing from the big cities and small towns of America, these young men came together to serve their country and the greater good. They were the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division (the All Americans). Phil Nordyke, their official historian, draws on interviews with surviving veterans and oral history recordings as well as official archives and unpublished written ... Read more

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