Capt: 105 books

This book is an in-depth look at our century and the world events that eventually led to 9/11/01. As the Fire Captain of Eng-34 on W. 38 Street I reported in to the staging area at West and Vesey street. We tunneled and searched for the missing for weeks. That day I lost 105 of my friends, in the...

Memoirs of British medical officer J. C. Dunn during World War I: “The first duty of a battalion medical officer in War is to discourage the evasion of duty...not seldom against one’s better feelings, sometimes to the temporary hurt of the individual, but justice to all other men as well as discipline...

The role of military chaplains has changed over the past decade as Western militaries have deployed to highly religious environments such as East Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq. U.S. military chaplains, who are by definition non-combatants, have been called upon by their war-fighting commanders to...

Think the Marine Corps is a war-fighting organization? Think again. A Marine Cobra helicopter pilot finds himself off the coast of Korea taking part in a political exercise known as Ssang Young. The goal is to conduct a Marine amphibious landing. However, Captain Groom soon learns amphibious assault...

“UNTIL the Treaty of Versailles the Polish nation was without a country. For more than a century the buffer-state of Central Europe had no representation on the map. Today when the area, population and resources must be recognized and her strategic position taken into account, Poland remains to...

Oh God!Help us to keep ourselves physically strong, mentally awake and morally straightSo that in doing our duties to thee and to the nation we may keep the honor of our country untarnished.Strengthen us to guard our nation against external aggression and internal disorder.Jai Hind

This unique reference presents 59 biographies of people who were key to the sea services being reasonably prepared to fight the Japanese Empire when the Second World War broke out, and whose advanced work proved crucial. These intelligence pioneers invented techniques, procedures, and equipment from...

“Only sixty candidates were to be selected from more than fifty thousand boys who had written the qualifying examination. One hundred and twenty candidates who got the highest marks in the examination would be called for interview in Bombay out of which sixty unfortunate boys would have to return home....

  Captain Bob Fore, retired, was born in Lakeland, Florida, on September 1, 1938. He graduated from Lakeland High School in June 1956. He attended Marion Military Institute, graduating with an associate’s degree in art and the rank of company commander. Upon graduation from Marion Military...

Do you know how the mythical bird Garuda became Vishnu’s Mount? What does a serpent coiled around a peacock signify? Which bird in the hands of Mohini represents carnal love? Have you ever wondered about the significance of the birds you see with gods and goddesses when you regularly prostrate and...

This collection of poems is based on the theme nature ,what it bears today at the hands of mankind. The great deterioration of human values in man in the present times has brought about greater deterioration in the conservation of natural resources, thereby negatively affecting the normal behaviour...

The author along with his wife and two young grandsons are stranded at his (almost bomb proof) hunting camp in Marion, Maine after a severe snow storm blocks the roads. Unknown to the fact that there has been a disaster and all are dead, the captain travels by snowshoes to investigate. Rather than...

Practical Human Factors for Pilots bridges the divide between human factors research and one of the key industries that this research is meant to benefit—civil aviation. Human factors are now recognized as being at the core of aviation safety and the training syllabus that flight crew trainees have...

Another episode in Dr. Bird's extraordinary duel with the scientific wizard Saranoff.