Tag: Corps

July 21, 2023

Washington’s Marines – The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution, 1775-1777 [Audiobook]

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Free Download Washington’s Marines: The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution, 1775-1777 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB71FG34 | 2023 | 12 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 362 MB
Author: Major General Jason Q. Bohm
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
The fighting prowess of United States Marines is second to none, but few know of the Corps’ humble beginnings and what it achieved during the early years of the American Revolution. That oversight is fully rectified by Jason Bohm’s eye-opening Washington’s Marines: The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution, 1775-1777. The story begins with the oppressive days that drove America into a conflict for which it was ill-prepared, when thirteen independent colonies commenced a war against the world’s most powerful military with nothing more than local militias, privateers, and other ad hoc units.

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July 12, 2023

The Archaeology of the Royal Flying Corps Trench Art, Souvenirs and Lucky Mascots

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Free Download The Archaeology of the Royal Flying Corps: Trench Art, Souvenirs and Lucky Mascots by Melanie Winterton
English | October 7, 2022 | ISBN: 1399097261 | 176 pages | PDF (Converted) | 10 Mb
Archaeology provides a fascinating insight into the lives of the aviators of the First World War. Their descriptions of the sensation of flying in the open cockpits of the primitive warplanes of the day, and the artifacts that have survived from these first years of aerial combat, give us a powerful sense of what their wartime service was like and chart the beginning of our modern understanding of aviation. But the subject hasn’t been explored in any depth before, which is why Melanie Winterton’s pioneering book is so timely. Hers is the first study of the trench art, souvenirs and lucky mascots associated with the Royal Flying Corps which, in an original way, tell us so much about the experience of flying on the Western Front a century ago.

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April 3, 2023

United States Marine Corps in Vietnam (Images of War)

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Free Download United States Marine Corps in Vietnam (Images of War) by Michael Green
English | May 27, 2020 | ISBN: 1526751232 | 160 pages | MOBI | 57 Mb
With the American-supported South Vietnamese government verging on collapse in early 1965, American President Lyndon Johnson decided to commit American conventional ground forces in the form of a United States Marine Corps (USMC) brigade of approximately 3,000 men on March 8, 1965. So began a massive and costly 10-year commitment. At its height in 1968, the USMC had 86,000 men in South Vietnam. Almost 500,000 Marines would eventually rotate in out of South Vietnam during their typical one-year tours of duty. In the end, the fighting during such well-known battles at Con Tien, Chu Lai, Hue, Khe Sanh and Dong Ha and thousands of now forgotten smaller-scale engagements would cost the USMC 13,070 killed in action and 88,630 wounded, more casualties than they suffered during the Second World War. In this book, well-known military historian Michael Green using hundreds of dramatic images tells the dramatic and gallant story of the Marines’ contribution to an unwinnable war; the battles, their equipment, from rifles to helicopters and jets, and the strategy adopted by the Corps.

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March 31, 2023

Between Inca Walls A Peace Corps Memoir

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Free Download Evelyn Kohl LaTorre, "Between Inca Walls: A Peace Corps Memoir"
English | ISBN: 1631527177 | 2020 | 328 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
At twenty-one, Evelyn is naïve about life and love. Raised in a small Montana town, she moves at age sixteen with her devout Catholic family to California. There, she is drawn to Latino culture when she works among the migrant workers. During the summer of her junior year in college, Evelyn travels to a small Mexican town to help set up a school and a library―an experience that whets her appetite for a life full of both purpose and adventure.

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