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Author | : Tracie L. Hill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 833 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Thompson submachine gun |
ISBN | : 9780889354968 |
"Virtually every chapter and topic covered in Tracie Hill's critically acclaimed 1996 Collector Grade title Thompson: The American Legend has been expanded, and some new ones have been added in order to incorporate a vast amount of important new information augmenting every aspect of the history of the Auto Ordnance Corporation, the Thompson family, and the design and production of the hardware that bears the Thompson name. Much of this priceless new material, including personal memoirs, dimensioned blueprints and other rare memorabilia, has been bequeathed by key people who were intimately involved in the day to day operations of the company"--Publisher's description.
Author | : Tracie L. Hill |
Publisher | : Cobourg, Ont. : Collector Grade Publications |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Submachine guns |
ISBN | : 9780889352087 |
Author | : Marion K. Sanders |
Publisher | : Boston : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
An examination of the modern journalist's interests, relationships, and career, based on her private papers and interviews with friends and associates.
Author | : Neil Burckart |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2016-05-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1514493764 |
This story is about a young man who joins the army air corp. in 1942. He became a bomber pilot and flew thirty missions over enemy territory, was wounded twice, and received thirteen medals for his exemplary service. After the war, he moved his young family to Alaska to find work. He worked as a stevedore on the docks. In his off hours, he started commercial fishing and hunting. Eventually he became a guide. As the years passed, he became one of the very best guides in all of Alaska and has guided thousands of hunters over the years in some of the most inhospitable countries in the whole world. He is one of the charter members of the prestigious Safari Club International. Lieutenant Thompsons story goes beyond the imagination, from being attacked by angry bears to surviving more than one bush pilot accident. With more than twenty-five thousand hours of flying in the bush, he escaped a revolution in the Republic of Central Africa, where one of his planes was shot down and one of his pilots was killed. This is his story, where he performs numerous life-and-death rescues, including the Coast Guard. This book is one adventure after another. A must read for those who admire the war heroes and the adventures between man and beast and the great outdoors.
Author | : Bill Yenne |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0312383266 |
A military and cultural history of the infamous World War II firearm documents its notorious use by mobsters and NRA members as well as its ubiquitous presence in Hollywood films, charting its many names and role as a symbol of 20th-century culture.
Author | : Wayland D. Hand |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520313216 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.
Author | : Spencer C. Tucker |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 4371 |
Release | : 2012-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This almanac provides a comprehensive, chronological overview of all American military history, serving as the standard reference work of its type. Almanac of American Military History is yet another reference work from acclaimed historian Dr. Spencer C. Tucker and ABC-CLIO, offering an unprecedented resource for a wide range of students and researchers. A comprehensive, four-volume title, this almanac traces all of American military history from the European voyages of discovery through 2011, chronicling the pivotal moments that have shaped the United States into the country it is today. In addition to documenting key events, this title presents biographies of more than 250 key individuals and provides information on more than 250 historically significant technologies and weapons systems. A detailed glossary is included, as are discussions of ranks and military awards and decorations. Divided into conflict periods, each chapter includes a detailed chronology, reference-entry sidebars, statistical information, primary-source documents, and a bibliography.
Author | : William Warren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kenneth O. Bjork |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joshua Kurlantzick |
Publisher | : Wiley |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781681620275 |
How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war--and the steep price he paid for failing Jim Thompson landed in Thailand at the end of World War II, a former American society dilettante who became an Asian legend as a spy and silk magnate with access to Thai worlds outsiders never saw. As the Cold War reached Thailand, America had a choice: Should it, as Thompson believed, help other nations build democracies from their traditional cultures or, as his ex-OSS friend Willis Bird argued, remake the world through deception and self-serving alliances? In a story rich with insights and intrigue, this book explores a key Cold War episode that is still playing out today. Highlights a pivotal moment in Cold War history that set a course for American foreign policy that is still being followed today Explores the dynamics that put Thailand at the center of the Cold War and the fighting in neighboring Laos that escalated from sideshow to the largest covert operation America had ever engaged in Draws on personal recollections and includes atmospheric details that bring the people, events--and the Thailand of the time--to life Written by a journalist with extensive experience in Asian affairs who has spent years investigating every aspect of this story, including Thompson's tragic disappearance