Resultados para "3" en Ejército y guerra

Step into the pivotal years of America’s fight for freedom with Profiles of Valor: Vol. 3, a virtue-driven collection of biographical sketches from the War of Independence.

The attacks of September 11, 2001, prompted the creation of a robust and deadly special operations force—Task Force Dagger. Alan C. Mack, Callsign Razor 03, led a team of MH-47E helicopters and armed MH-60s. Their two-fold mission–Personnel Recovery (PR) and Unconventional Warfare (UW) involved flying in terrain and weather previously not thought possible. If that wasn’t enough, they pushed the flight envelope of their specially modified Chinooks to the limit and beyond.

In his own captivating words, General Ulysses S. Grant describes the Wilderness Campaign, the almost anti-climactic surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. His depiction of the most crucial and hardest-fought battles of the Civil War, the near-disasters, and the bloody triumphs reveals a highly intelligent, profound, thinking man. Grant wrote his memoirs as he lay dying of cancer and completed the manuscript only a week before his death.

Tome 3 : Polotsk - La beresina - Leipzig - Waterloo. On a laissé Marbot en Portugal, combattant à Torrès Védras, à Fuentes de Ońoro ; dans ce tome, on va le retrouver franchissant le Niémen avec la Grande Armée... "J'engage le colonel Marbot à continuer à écrire pour la défense et la gloire des Armées françaises et en confondre les calomniateurs", écrivait Napoléon dans son testament.

Царствование Александра III не сопровождалось ни кровопролитными войнами, ни разорительными радикальными реформами. Оно принесло России экономическую стабильность, упрочение международного престижа, рост ее народонаселения и духовное самоуглубление. Не мало потрудился император и для улучшения военного дела: русская армия была значительно увеличена и вооружена новым оружием; на западной границе было построено несколько крепостей. Военный флот при нем стал одним из сильнейших в Европе.

Der dritte Teil meiner Trilogie "Sonne im Staub – Labyrinth der Fronten" begleitet den Verlauf nach meiner Rückkehr aus Afghanistan. Die Konsequenzen meiner Entscheidungen der Vergangenheit werden mir ungeschönt vor Augen geführt. Der Zug meines Lebens fährt nun auf Gleisen, für die ich nie ein Ticket wollte und doch wird er mich an ein Ziel bringen. Denn egal wohin unsere Reise geht, dort wo wir ankommen, sind wir nicht allein! Nun im letzten Teil, kann ich meine Erlebnisse so schildern, wie sie mir auch in meinen Alb- und Tagträumen begegnen.

On the night of March 24, 1944, Bram Vanderstok was number 18 of 76 men who crawled beyond the barbed wire fence of Stalag Luft III in Zagan, Poland. His memoir sets down his wartime adventures before being incarcerated in Stalag Luft III and then, in extraordinary detail, describes various escape attempts which culminated with the famous March breakout.

The reign of Richard III, the last Yorkist king and the final monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty, marked a turning point in British history. But despite his lasting legacy, Richard only ruled as king for the final two years of his life. While much attention has been given to his short reign, Michael Hicks explores the whole of Richard's fascinating life and traces the unfolding of his character and career from his early years as the son of a duke to his violent death at the battle of Bosworth.

Between dusk and dawn on the night of March 24-25, 1944, a small army of Allied soldiers crawled through tunnels in Germany in a covert operation the likes of which the Third Reich had never seen. The prison break from Stalag Luft III in Eastern Germany was the largest of its kind in the Second World War. Seventy-nine Allied soldiers and airmen made it outside the wire - but only three made it outside Nazi Germany. Fifty were executed by the Gestapo.

著者は、「テロや紛争のない世界」の実現をビジョンとして掲げ、ソマリアやイエメンといった熾烈な紛争地の最前線において、テロ組織からの投降兵や逮捕者を脱過激化し、社会復帰へ導くという活動を続けている。

Un crocevia di episodi fantastici, avventurosi, alcuni assurdi. L'America Latina racchiude universi molto diversi tra loro che hanno in comune la magia di racconti unici. In "Altramerica", Filippo Femia racconterà queste storie di vita attraverso la voce dei protagonisti. Persone comuni che a volte hanno incrociato la Storia con la S maiuscola. Ogni episodio un Paese, per un viaggio che dal muro al confine Stati Uniti-Messico arriva fino alla Tierra del Fuego.

Real stories told by real people, in their own words. Hundred veterans, men and women, caught up in an all-too-real war. From the Delta to the DMZ, come walk in their boots. If you were there, you understand. If you weren't, buy this audiobook and you will, because they’re like Doritos. Try a few, and you won't be able to stop. The Vietnam War dominated my generation and affected so many lives in so many different ways. Some of us were drafted.

Matteo Caccia ci racconta la storia di Karim Franceschi, nato nel 1989 a Casablanca e cresciuto a Senigallia, che nel 2014 parte per Kobane con un progetto umanitario, poi decide di restare in Siria e unirsi alla lotta armata contro l'Isis. Nel 2016 fonda una brigata internazionale che avrà un ruolo importantissimo nella caduta di Raqqa, capitale dello Stato Islamico. Nel corso delle 10 puntate sarà la voce di Karim stesso a raccontare la sua storia: le ragioni delle sue scelte, i sentimenti, le paure e le speranze in 2 anni di lotta accanto agli uomini e alle donne di Kobane.

My Cold War Life Story, is a memoir of a young man growing up in America in the 1960s and 1970s, then serving in the Unted States Air Force from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. His life story chronicles competing ideologies that spanned over three decades during the worldwide spread of Marxist-Leninism, socialism, and communism, that emanated from the Soviet Union. It is a personal time capsule of silent battles in Europe, Asia, and Central America until the end of the Cold War in 1991, and the follow-on retirements of that era's military aircraft through the mid-1990s.

An army medic who went beyond the call of duty amid a frenzy of treacherous bloodletting in Ladakh’s Galwan while his fellow soldiers fought the Chinese to death; the crew of an Indian Navy destroyer that put everything on the line to rescue hundreds from Cyclone Tauktae in the Arabian Sea; an...

Welcome to the world of America’s elite shadow operatives. The missions you’ve never heard of. The battles that never officially happened. And the warriors who don’t exist...on paper.

In 1966, a Marine sergeant screams, “Get the F*#k off my quarterdeck!” at a young man and changes his life forever. Before those words, Randy was a lost Midwestern boy who wandered through high school and college with no clear direction in his life. But he had an out-of-reach fantasy to become a Navy pilot. Through a chance encounter with a naval aviator recruiter, he finds the path to fulfill his dream. But it doesn’t happen overnight. The boy from the Detroit suburbs must first make his way through Primary, Basic, Aircraft Carrier Landing, and Advanced Multi-Engine Training.

When the cruel hand of betrayal inevitably comes knocking, we must leave the ones who’ve wronged us behind and continue on toward a better future. We have no choice but to leave the past in the past and keep moving forward, no matter how difficult the road may be. Sometimes, if we’re lucky, we may bump into someone along the way who will walk the rest of the road with us. This is my journey down “No Man’s Road.”

You are with the author when he ejects from his burning Navy jet onto a karst ridge near Hanoi. What follows in this meticulously researched memoir is an account of one of the most implausible and heroic rescues of the air-war - and the aftermath. The events immediately following his rescue carry the author to a secret base in Laos and then to a makeshift hospital in Saigon. The larger story, however, is of the author’s complex relationship with Vietnam. It begins in Saigon, where he completes high school and comes to love the Vietnamese people.

America's first intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was forged in the fires of WWII. OSS agents carried out daring and covert operations across the world, yet their critical contributions and brave work have remained shrouded in secrecy—until now. Discover the stunning true story of Steven Bizic and the men of SPIKE team as they descend into darkness, landing amidst the turmoil of a nation torn apart by civil war and years of Nazi occupation.