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To mark Memorial Day in the US, Glen Dean is making all three of his e-books free for a few days. For full details, see this blog post.I wrote a review of In Search of Lethality: Green Ammo and the M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round in March and gave it four out of five stars. Given the very technical nature of the subject, creating such an easily-readable account is...
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A Damn Close-Run Thing: A Brief History of the Falklands Conflict
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Weapons & Equipment of the US Army
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Szent István: Hungary's Battleship
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The Bear Marches West: 12 Scenarios for 1980's NATO vs Warsaw Pact Wargames
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A Fleet in Being: The Austro-Hungarian Navy in WWI
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In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict, I'm reviewing A Damn Close Run Thing: A Brief History of the Falklands Conflict, by UK author and military historian Russell Phillips. Available for Amazon Kindle via Amazon.com and in ot...
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“I have lived now for over a century, yet I can still say with complete confidence that no one can claim to have plumbed the depths of human misery who has not shared the fore-ends of a submarine with a camel.”
― John Biggins, A Sailor of Austria: In Which, Without Really Intending to, Otto Prohaska Becomes Official War Hero No. 27 of the Habsburg Empire
― John Biggins, A Sailor of Austria: In Which, Without Really Intending to, Otto Prohaska Becomes Official War Hero No. 27 of the Habsburg Empire
“In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.”
― John Biggins, The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War
― John Biggins, The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War
“It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.”
― John Biggins, The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War
― John Biggins, The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War
“Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After
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