37 Ergebnisse für: officers
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Elias Cornelius Boudinot: A Life on the Cherokee Border - James W. Parins - Google Books
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Elias Cornelius Boudinot provides the first full account of a man who was intimately and prominently involved in the life of the Cherokee Nation in the second half of the nineteenth century and was highly influential in the opening of the former Indian…
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"We Are Now the True Spaniards": Sovereignty, Revolution, Independence, and ... - Jaime E. Rodriguez O. - Google Books
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This book is a radical reinterpretation of the process that led to Mexican independence in 1821—one that emphasizes Mexico's continuity with Spanish political culture. During its final decades under Spanish rule, New Spain was the most populous, richest,…
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1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow - Adam Zamoyski - Google Books
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Adam Zamoyski’s bestselling account of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history. In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and…
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Police Operations: Theory and Practice - Kären M. Hess, Christine H. Orthmann, Henry Lim Cho - Google Books
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This trusted book provides a focused, practical introduction to the key principles and practices guiding the operations of modern police departments. While maintaining its proven instructional approach and strong focus on community- and problem-oriented…
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Parachuting into Poland, 1944: Memoir of a Secret Mission with Jozef Retinger - Marek Celt, Jan Chciuk-Celt - Google Books
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This firsthand account, never before published in English, details a secret World War II mission in 1944 called Operation Salamander, in which Tadeusz Chciuk (writing as Marek Celt) parachuted into German-occupied Poland with the enigmatic political…
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Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology - A. Bowdoin Van Riper - Google Books
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Beginning with World War II, missiles transformed the art of war. For the first time, cities of warring nations were vulnerable to sudden, unannounced, long-distance attacks. At the same time, rockets made possible one of the great triumphs of the modern…
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Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten - James S Ketchum M D, James S. Ketchum - Google Books
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Chemical warfare watchers, from scientists to policy advocates, often wonder what went on at the Army Chemical Center during the 1960s. It was a decade in which thousands of Army enlisted men served as volunteers for the secret testing of chemical agents.…
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Student Companion to James Fenimore Cooper - Craig White - Google Books
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The Student Companion to James Fenimore Cooper At the dawn of America's continental empire, James Fenimore Cooper in the early 1800s became the new nation's first major novelist, inaugurating a great period in American literature and bequeathing a number…
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Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten - James S Ketchum M D, James S. Ketchum - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=gugwlufvShoC
Chemical warfare watchers, from scientists to policy advocates, often wonder what went on at the Army Chemical Center during the 1960s. It was a decade in which thousands of Army enlisted men served as volunteers for the secret testing of chemical agents.…
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Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation During the Second World War - Davide Rodogno - Google Books
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This 2006 book is a controversial reappraisal of the Italian occupation of the Mediterranean during the Second World War, which Davide Rodogno examines within the framework of fascist imperial ambitions. He focuses on the European territories annexed and…