The Devil's Griffins-A Visual History of Italy's Elite Plumed Warriors
Formed in 1859, the Bersaglieri "sharp shooters" served as the "Tip of the Spear" paying the price in blood during the Italian Wars of Unification, the colonial forays into Africa, the First World War, the Ethiopian War and the Second World War. Over 300 images chronicle the "Plumed Warriors" rise to equal status among the world's military elite.
Based on personal interviews, the narrative follows 15 selected former members of aircrew during their respective training and tours of duty with XV Squadron. The stories reveal their thoughts, concerns, hopes and fears as they struggle to complete a tour of duty, which consisted of flying night after night, over heavily defended enemy territory.
This is the first book on tracking in a combat situation that includes suggestions for integrating visual tracking operations into existing military doctrine in addition to the boots-on-the-ground detail necessary for soldiers who perform those operations.
Hitler's penal battalions were designed to change attitudes of prisoners towards national policy while instilling a sense of duty honour and purpose. These goals were to be achieved through harsh discipline and punishments, indoctrination programs and leave restrictions. Troops surviving their missions were eventually transferred to regular units.
A Congressional Medal of Honor Account Extraordinary Valor is the story of Special Forces Major John Duffy's Medal of Honor gallantry at Firebase Charlie, and the heroism of South Vietnamese paratrooper, Major Le Van M?, who fought by his side. It is the true story of their battle to defend Charlie Hill, a key to holding Vietnam's Central ......
In 1937 aged just 19, Edmund Murray left his family and a comfortable job in London, caught the boat train to France and signed up for the minimum of five years' service with the French Foreign Legion. Armed with little more than school-boy French and a desire for a life of adventure, Murray travelled through France and on to the Legion's ......
An Ethnographic Study of the Norwegian Naval Special Operations Commando
Making Warriors in a Global Era provides ethnographic data, analyses, and discussions to infuse new debates among both military personnel and academics about the rise of special operations forces and the ways they impact how armed conflicts are dealt with and how wars are fought.
