East Timor is the largest and longest overseas deployment of New Zealand troops since Malaya/Borneo. Using personal letters, extracts from diaries, interviews and many photographs, this text aims to explain why the New Zealand defence force personnel were sent to East Timor and what they did when they went there.
Vol. 1 The war years I Part 1: The Operations Division; December 1941 to June 1942 1. "All we need is ships!" 2. Bolero Part 2: From London to Gibraltar; June 1942 to November 1942 3. From sledgehammer to torch 4. Defining torch 5. Full blast for torch Vol. 2 The war years II Part 3: Lighting the Torch; November 1942 to December 1942 6. The landings and darlan 7. The race for tunis …
The conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1941-1945, was the greatest, most costly, and most brutal conflict on land in human history. It was arguably the single most decisive factor of the war and shaped the postwar world as we know it. In this magisterial work, Bellamy outlines the lead-up to the war, in which the fragile alliance between the …
Presents a pictorial look at the modern U.S. Navy and Marine Corps
LTG Boonsrang Niumpradit recounts his experiences as Force Commander of the United Nations Transitional Administrator in East Timor (UNTAET) from 19 July 2000 - 1 September 2001
A discussion and analysis of the roots of the Hukbalahap insurrection, the Philippine response, and U.S. involvement
In so doing, it presents a cluster of new findings and arguments, including a fresh interpretation of Khrushchev's motives for putting missiles in Cuba, new information on the mystery surrounding Senator Kenneth Keating's secret sources, and evidence indicating that JFK planned to carry out a military strike on Cuba at the start of the crisis. Contents : Approaching Camelot : John F. Kenned…