Iconic and Inspiring Space Race Inventions That Shaped History
On July 20, 1969, Americans had their eyes and ears glued to their TVs and radios. NASA's successful moon landing left the nation in awe. This moment inspired inventors and engineers across the nation. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing, we share with you 20 patents that were inspired by the space race and how they reshaped ......
One hundred and sixty minutes. That is all the time rescuers would have before the largest ship in the world slipped beneath the icy Atlantic. There was amazing heroism and astounding incompetence against the backdrop of the most advanced ship in history sinking by inches with luminaries from all over the world. It is a story of a network of ......
'Operation Neptune' was the codename for the naval component of the invasion of France. The complete invasion codename was 'Overlord', and 'Neptune' was therefore phase one. This book was written one year after the invasion by an officer who was closely involved, provides the detail behind the conception, planning and execution of 'Neptune'.
The Case of the 1956 Student Movement in Timisoara
This book investigates an important episode in opposition to the Communist regime in Romania. Using fresh evidence gathered through archival research and oral history, the author examines the student protests in the city of Timisoara that broke out in 1956 following the Hungarian uprising of the same year.
This book covers in detail Air Observation Post light aircraft operations carried out by the Ninth US Army in Europe during World War II, as recorded in the daily Journal or war diary maintained by the Artillery Air Officer at that Headquarters. Associated administrative matters are also covered.
Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, this title offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself.
Generals like Heinz Guderian have received most of the credit for devising and executing the German blitzkrieg, but without the field commanders who led armored corps, divisions, and regiments, the lightning offensive that overtook France in 1940 could not have triumphed.
A Canadian in the German 7th Panzer Division, 1944-45
Six months before World War II erupted in 1939, young Bruno Friesen was sent to Germany by his father, a German-speaking Mennonite who came to Canada from Ukraine and believed the Third Reich offered a better life than Canada. Friesen was drafted into the Wehrmacht three years later and ended up in the 7th Panzer Division.
The German 3rd Panzer Division and Barbarossa's Failure at the Gates of
This is Operation Barbarossa as experienced by the soldiers of the 3rd Panzer Division and reported on the German homefront. After smashing its way deep into Soviet territory during the summer of 1941, the tanks of the division encountered difficulties as they got closer to Moscow, eventually being halted not far from the Soviet capital.
