Capt: 105 books

When it was first published in 1935, On the Border with Mackenzie, or Winning West Texas from the Comanches quickly became known as the most complete account of the Indian Wars on the Texas frontier during the 1870s, and remains one of the most exhaustive histories ever written by an actual participant...

Born in Brockton, Massachusetts in the mid 30's. Quit school in the 10th grade and joined the Air Force. After being released under honorable conditions, he bummed around for several years before deciding to take up flying under the G.1. Bill. He wanted to be an airline pilot. In 1959, still a student...

The early hours of falling night in the jungle, with its cool breeze laden with unknown sweet smell was intoxicating. It was a glorious moonlit night…I had a straight fall from several hundred feet. I squatted to hold the rock but there were loose stones; the reflection of the sun on the distant snow-covered...

Captain Robert Park Yunnie MC (1909-1961) was one of the original officers of “Popski’s Private Army” (officially No. 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA), a unit of British Special Forces set up on Cairo in October 1942 by Major Vladimir Peniakoff, MC (“Popski”). Capt. Yunnie was Popski’s second...

Includes over 15 illustrations including detailed map of the area of operations. The Chitral Expedition was a military expedition in 1895 sent by the British authorities to relieve the fort at Chitral which was under siege after a local coup. After the death of the old ruler power changed hands...

The Manifesto of Self-Defense is a self-help book written by Capt. Guy Stultz, who shares some measures on how to prevent burglary and a guide to protect yourself from rape, scams, fires, poisons, and other ideas as well as precautionary measures that will be most helpful to protect the citizenry....

You can find your balance and the keys to success and enlightenment by implementing a plan of mind, body and spirit. Through the mastery of virtues we are ultimately able to master ourselves.This book provides a powerful framework that will liberate you to all the possibilities and magic in the world. Dead...

Ten U.S. Marines are assigned to live, train, and go into battle with more than five hundred raw and undisciplined Iraqi soldiers. A member of this Adviser Support Team, Capt. Eric Navarro, recounts their tour in vivid and brutally honest detail. Their deployment comes at a particularly important time...

The Solar Magne by Capt. S. P. Meek.

How could a human body be found actually splinteredbroken into sharp fragments like shattered glass! Once again Dr. Bird probes deep into an amazing mystery.

During World War II, with Allied merchant and navy ships under the threat of German U-boats, the eastern seaboard was on high alert. The Cape Cod Canal, a vital waterway for commercial and military traffic, underwent a period of strict control, occupation, and defense. This pictorial history documents...

DANGEROUS LESSONS AND GUARDIAN ANGELS is an action packed true adventure book that spans thirty-five years of airline flying. Stories about transporting guns to Biafra, flying cargo up and down the Berlin corridor during the cold war, and flying sensitive missions, deep into Russia.Fasten your seatbelt...

The Redondo Beach Police Department dates to May 9, 1892, when Marshall S. Rogers was appointed as the city�s first marshal. One of the first city ordinances prohibited the discharge of firearms within city limits and provided the option for hiring of a deputy �if needed.� He was needed, of course,...

Could an unobtrusive, skinny, bookish teacher who loves classical music and poetry become a fighter pilot in one of the bloodiest theaters of war our country has known? Could this modest self-described dreamer become the pilot of a Corsair F4U, the fastest plane built—equipped with six menacing,...