Service Manuals

Bad Strategies: How Major Powers Fail in Counterinsurgency-James S. Corum PDF Download

It is the new way of war: Everywhere our military tries to make inroads, insurgents flout us--and seem to get the better of the strategists making policy and battle plans. In this book, an expert with...

The War I Always Wanted: the Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War-Brandon Friedman PDF Download

Growing up in the shadows of the giant B-52 Stratofortresses that thundered away from the nearby Barksdale Air Force Base, Brandon Friedman dreamed of becoming a warrior and defending his country. But...

The Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood: U.s. Marines in World War I-Dick Camp PDF Download

Facing massed German machine guns, the Marines made sweep after bloody sweep through Belleau Wood. Repeatedly accosted by the retreating French and urged to turn back, Captain Lloyd Williams of the 2n...

Uss Missouri at War-Carolyn Bonner PDF Download

On September 2, 1945, surrender ceremonies officially ending World War II were broadcast worldwide from the deck of the USS Missouri. The ceremony also marked the end of one of the most eventful years...

Flying the Sr-71 Blackbird: in the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission-Richard H. Graham PDF Download

For anyone who has ever wondered what its like to fly the SR-71 on a secret Mach 3 reconnaissance mission, this book has the answer. Flying the SR-71 Blackbird takes readers along on an operational mi...

Chicago Cubs Yesterday & Today-Steve Johnson PDF Download

Open this book and explore the life and times of one of the most storied franchises in all of professional sports, the Chicago Cubs. Pairing historical black-and-white images with contemporary photogr...

To D-Day and Back: Adventures with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment and Life as a World War II Pow: a Memoir-Bob Bearden PDF Download

In the predawn hours of D-Day, June 6, 1944, which would become immortalized as the Longest Day, Bob Bearden and his comrades in the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment jumped into the inky skies over N...

War Stories of the Tankers: American Armored Combat 1918 to Today PDF Download

These are the war stories few can tell, the harrowing firsthand accounts of armored combat, from the days of the centurys first tanks to the latest encounter on the streets of Baghdad. Here are the st...

More Than Courage: Sicily Naples-Foggia Anzio Rhineland Ardennes-Alsace Central Europe: the Combat History of the-Phil Nordyke PDF Download

Drawing on many oral and unpublished written accounts from veterans of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Phil Nordyke brings the history of the regiment to life, conveying with remarka...

The Bloody Triangle: the Defeat of Soviet Armor in the Ukraine June 1941-Victor Kamenir PDF Download

It was a tank battle exceeded in size and significance only by the famous defeat of Germany's Panzer force near Kursk in 1943. And yet, little is known about this weeklong clash of more than two thou...

The Pacific War-William B. Hopkins PDF Download

Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost, most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific, a conflict whose nature is only o...

Grand Prix Motorcycle Racers: the American Heroes-Norm Dewitt PDF Download

Until the 1970s, North America was considered a backwater with respect to world championship-level motorcycle road racing. European racers viewed American riders as being less talented and rode around...

Last Man Standing-Dick Camp PDF Download

One of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history, Operation Stalemate, as Peleliu was called, was overshadowed by the Normandy landings. It was also, in time, judged by most historians to have bee...

The Official Horse Breeds Standards Guide: Complete Guide to Standards of All North American Equine Breed Associations by Fran Lynghaug PDF Download

This is the only guidebook collecting the official North America breed associations' standards and conformations, making it a much-needed, handy, and comprehensive reference. Like the American Kennel...

Capturing the Stars: Astrophotography by the Masters-Robert Gendler PDF Download

To gaze at the stars is one thing; to capture that gaze in photographs is something else, a tantalizing scientific art that many attempt and few master. That rare mastery is on full display in this...

War Stories of the Infantry: Americans in Combat 1918 to Today-James D. Brown PDF Download

I love the infantry

War Stories of the Battle of the Bulge-James D. Brown PDF Download

The powerful German counteroffensive operation codenamed "Wacht am Rhein" (Watch on the Rhine) launched against the American First Army in the early morning hours of December 16, 1944, would result in...

Liberate and Leave: Fatal Flaws in the Early Strategy for Postwar Iraq-Don Eberly PDF Download

If you were to talk to those who experienced the Iraq War from the inside, the word you might hear most often is surreal." Don Eberly

Operation Phantom Fury: the Assault and Capture of Fallujah Iraq-Dick Camp PDF Download

The Second Battle for Fallujah, dubbed Operation Phantom Fury, took place over an almost two-month period, from November 7 to December 23, 2004. The Marine Corps’ biggest battle in Iraq to date, it wa...

All American All the Way: a Combat History of the 82nd Airborne Division in World War Ii: from Sicily to Normandy-Phil Nordyke PDF Download

The 82nd Airborne Division parachuted into history on 9 July 1943 when they led Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily. Less than a year from their formation in August 1942, the All Americans (the na...

The German Wars: a Concise History 1859-1945-Michael A. Palmer PDF Download

The German Wars: A Concise History, 1859-1945 outlines the history of European warfare from the Wars of German Unification to the end of the World War II. The title aside, the book is not be another h...

“Oh, yes,” a retired NVA officer matter-of-factly declared to former U.S. Marine Otto J. Lehrack. “In the Que Son Valley in 1967, we killed more Americans than at any time or place during the war.” Ro...

Noble Warrior: the Story of Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston Usmc (Ret.) Medal of Honor-Colin D. Heaton PDF Download

New addition to the "Commandant of the Marine Reading List, 2011" Major General James E. Livingston received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his role as an infantry company commander at Dai Do, V...

The Nuclear Express: a Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation-Danny B. Stillman PDF Download

This is a political history of nuclear weapons from the discovery of fission in 1938 to the nuclear train wreck that seems to loom in our future. It is an account of where those weapons came from, ho...