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Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing 2010 | 370 Pages | ISBN: 1602397252 | PDF | 29 MB Dear Reader: We work for the Soldier. To make the Army Strong… we make Soldiers Strong. Our mission, in its broadest terms, is to equip and sustain the world’s most capable, powerful, and respected Army. Our top priority is to provide Warfighters with the decisive edge. This handbook describes how we are accomplishing our mission. ... Ebook description

The Teaching Company | 2004 | ISBN: 1565859014 | 18 Hours 24 Minutes | mp3 + PDF | 253 MB 6 lectures on 18 Audio CDs, 3 course Guidebooks The history of the Romans and the "barbarians" they encountered as their mighty legions advanced the frontiers of Classical civilization has in large part been written as a story of warfare and conquest. But to tell the story on only that level leaves many questions unanswered, not only about the Romans but about the barbarians, as well. ... Ebook description

Publisher: Frank Cass 1997 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0714643149 , 0714646535 | PDF | 31 MB This is the first-ever concerted effort to use Russian archival and previously classified secondary sources to document the experience of the Red Army in the conflict with Finland. Van Dyke examines the diplomatic, organisational and social aspects of Soviet's 'strategic culture' by first exploring the Leninist interpretation of violence in international relations, and how this legacy influenced Stalin in his use of diplomacy and threat of force to enhance the Soviet Union's 'forward defence' and to address the Baltic Problem in 1939. ... Ebook description

Publisher: Princeton University Press | ISBN: 0691135894 | edition 2009 | PDF | 496 pages | 3,7 mb The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, including those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun, the Turks and Tibetans, and Genghis Khan and the Mongols. ... Ebook description

Thames & Hudson | 1994 | ISBN: 0500050740 | 224 pages | PDF (scan) | 120 MB Who was the first king on ancient Egypt and who was the last? Which Egyptian queens ruled in their own right? What do we really know about the 170 or more pharaohs whose names have come down to us? Chronicle of the Pharaohs is the first book to depict chronologically and in narrative form all the rulers and dynasties of Egypt. ... Ebook description

Brill | 2009-02-28 | ISBN: 9004172513 | 176 pages | PDF | 7,6 MB In urban life streets are elemental, but urban history seldom places them at centre stage. It tends to view them as mere backdrops for events or social relations, or to study them as material constructions, the fruit of urban planning, but largely vacant of inhabitants. Examining people and streets in tandem, the writers here strive towards more integrated urban history. ... Ebook description

Publisher: Praeger Security International 2006 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0275971155 | PDF | 2 MB The Battle of the Bulge was the “last hurrah” for the German Army on the Western Front. The purpose of this book is to describe this battle from the German point of view. The greatest military disaster the United States suffered in the European Theater of Operations in World War II took place in the Ardennes Offensive, when most of the U. ... Ebook description