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A Vision So Noble: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and America's War on Terror
ISBN: 9781451589818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. John Boyd was arguably the greatest American military theorist since the sea power strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan at the turn of the 20th Century. Best known for his formulation of the OODA Loop as a model for competitive decision making, Colonel Boyd was also an original thinker in developing tactics for air-to-air combat, designing warplanes, and the fluid, mobile warfare known to the Germans as blitzkrieg and to modern armies as "maneuver warfare." As much as anyone, John Boyd was the architect of the two great campaigns against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, both the 1991 liberation of Kuwait and...
John Boyd was arguably the greatest American military theorist since the sea power strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan at the turn of the 20th Century. Bes...
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50,22 zł |
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ISBN: 9781476779454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,58 zł |
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The High Country Illuminator: A Tale of Light and Darkness and the Ski Bums of Avalon
ISBN: 9781481854764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The High Country Illuminator created Avalon by climbing to the fourth tower of old Number One lift and crying: 'Lest there be light '"
Thus begins the madcap adventure of a ski-bum winter toward the end of the 1960s. HCI is otherwise known as George Togalok, a Native American from the Salt River Canyon country. Around him assemble cunning Silver Fox, brainy Duke University, the Outt-keepers, Max, Max's Buddy, some fluffy birds, and other young slackers who want nothing more from life than the chance to ski the fluffy white powder of the Colorado Rockies. "The writing is adept," marveled... "The High Country Illuminator created Avalon by climbing to the fourth tower of old Number One lift and crying: 'Lest there be light '"
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50,22 zł |
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The Country Northward: A Hiker's Journal, On the Trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire
ISBN: 9781452830926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Larger than the state of Rhode Island and laced by a thousand miles of trails, the White Mountains have long been a hiker's paradise. Here is a first-person account of the world that begins where the pavement ends. Fishermen, backpackers, trail-bikers ... goofers, peak baggers, and through hikers ... you'll find them all in the White Mountains, and you'll meet them all in the pages of this compelling book.The year is 1975, when it was still possible to find space in a lean-to shelter, when the Old Man of the Mountains still showed his splendid profile over Franconia Notch, and when hikers...
Larger than the state of Rhode Island and laced by a thousand miles of trails, the White Mountains have long been a hiker's paradise. Here is a first-...
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59,40 zł |
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Poland's Daughter: How I Met Basia, Hitchhiked to Italy, and Learned About Love, War, and Exile
ISBN: 9781494729899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Second World War -- the worst thing that ever happened. It began in September 1939, with Hitler's Wehrmacht invading Poland from the west, while Stalin's Red Army stormed in from the east. Among their victims was a five-year-old named Basia Deszberg. The Russians shot her father and brother in the Katyn Forest, then loaded Basia, her sister, and her mother into a cattle car for a horrific three-week journey to the steppes of Kazakhstan, there to survive as best they could. Over the next eight years, they would escape through Persia, Lebanon, and Egypt to find safe haven in England. By...
The Second World War -- the worst thing that ever happened. It began in September 1939, with Hitler's Wehrmacht invading Poland from the west, while S...
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68,57 zł |
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Looking Back From Ninety: The Depression, the War, and the Good Life That Followed
ISBN: 9781732230026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,57 zł |
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When I Am Going: Growing Up in Ireland and Coming to America, 1901-1927
ISBN: 9781478104315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Annie Crowley was one of eleven children born in the farmhouse at Kilnahone, outside the village of Ballygarvan in the County Cork. There were nearly twenty-four years between the oldest and youngest of the Crowley boys and girls, Their father died a few weeks after young Billy was born, and Jack the eldest emigrated to Australia not long after. Annie was six years old at the time, and a pupil at Ballygarvan National School, where the English language and English history were drilled into Irish children.
Then came the First World War, and Mary Crowley went off to become a nurse in... Annie Crowley was one of eleven children born in the farmhouse at Kilnahone, outside the village of Ballygarvan in the County Cork. There were nearly ...
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45,63 zł |
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Remains: A Story of the Flying Tigers, Who Won Immortality Defending Burma and China from Japanese Invasion
ISBN: 9781492779506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When young Eddie Gillespie discovers a World War II airplane in the jungle, with a grinning skeleton at the controls, he sets a story in motion. Two American fighter pilots in the Chinese Air Force, with their English and Burmese girlfriends, and a Japanese suicide pilot whose name happens to mean "tree of the sun"--they clash at Rangoon, while the British empire falls about their ears. Here is a story of the Flying Tigers, immortalized by their exploits in Southeast Asia in the opening months of the Pacific War, as told by a man uniquely qualified to write about those stirring times....
When young Eddie Gillespie discovers a World War II airplane in the jungle, with a grinning skeleton at the controls, he sets a story in motion. Two A...
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59,40 zł |
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Incident at Muc Wa: A Story of the Vietnam War
ISBN: 9781478178187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the story that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancaster movie, "Go Tell the Spartans." The year is 1964--early days in South Vietnam--and the U.S. Army Raiders have garrisoned a town that the French abandoned ten years before. The Viet Cong attack, and the Americans reinforce. They're not about to repeat the mistakes of the French
'Sad, bawdy, and compelling, ' wrote the "Detroit Free Press." Prophetic, too, of how the larger war would end.
This is the story that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancaster movie, "Go Tell the Spartans." The year is 1964--early days in South Vietnam--and the U.S...
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59,40 zł |
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Cowboy: The Interpreter Who Became a Soldier, a Warlord, and One More Casualty of Our War in Vietnam
ISBN: 9781732230002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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50,22 zł |
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The Warden: A Novel
ISBN: 9781250815675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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87,32 zł |
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The Lady and the Tigers: The story of the remarkable woman who served with the Flying Tigers in Burma and China, 1941-1942
ISBN: 9781456415327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Olga Greenlaw kept the War Diary of the American Volunteer Group--the Flying Tigers--while those gallant mercenaries defended Burma and China from Japanese aggression during the opening months of the Pacific War. Returning to the United States in 1942, she wrote 'The Lady and the Tigers', which war correspondent Leland Stowe hailed as "an authoritative, gutsy and true to life story of the AVG." Out of print for more than half a century, her book has now been brought up to date by Daniel Ford, author of 'Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers'. What's more, Ford explains...
Olga Greenlaw kept the War Diary of the American Volunteer Group--the Flying Tigers--while those gallant mercenaries defended Burma and China from Jap...
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59,40 zł |
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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
ISBN: 9780692734735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. During World War II, in the skies over Rangoon, Burma, a handful of American pilots met and bloodied the "Imperial Wild Eagles" of Japan and in turn won immortality as the Flying Tigers. One of America's most famous combat forces, the Tigers were recruited to defend beleaguered China for $600 a month and a bounty of $500 for each Japanese plane they shot down-fantastic money in an era when a Manhattan hotel room cost three dollars a night.
To bring his prize-winning history of the American Volunteer Group up to date, Daniel Ford has twice rewritten his original text, drawing on the most... During World War II, in the skies over Rangoon, Burma, a handful of American pilots met and bloodied the "Imperial Wild Eagles" of Japan and in turn w...
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73,15 zł |
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The Warden
ISBN: 9781250815651 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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122,26 zł |
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Body Broker: A Jack Dixon Novelvolume 1
ISBN: 9781939650993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,30 zł |
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Tales of the Flying Tigers: Five Books about the American Volunteer Group, Mercenary Heroes of Burma and China
ISBN: 9781530249930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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59,40 zł |
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The Only War We've Got: Early Days in South Vietnam
ISBN: 9781479194728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It's the summer of 1964. The bush hat, not the steel helmet, is the favored headgear of the sixteen thousand American advisors in South Vietnam. They love their work, and they're very good at it. How can they possibly fail? Covering their war are a handful of foreign reporters, including novelist Daniel Ford. Armed with a camera and a notebook, he wanders the country on foot and by military transport--helicopter, jeep, landing craft, junk, armored personnel carrier, and an Air Force flare ship--from the Mekong Delta to the Central Highlands. Once or twice a week, or whenever he is reunited...
It's the summer of 1964. The bush hat, not the steel helmet, is the favored headgear of the sixteen thousand American advisors in South Vietnam. They ...
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59,40 zł |
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Necrobane
ISBN: 9781250815682 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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126,63 zł |
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Cheap Heat: Volume 2
ISBN: 9781733777711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,30 zł |
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Crusade, 3: Book Three of the Paladin Trilogy
ISBN: 9781939650757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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87,14 zł |
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