Gordon L : 212 books
by Gordon L. Rottman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The RPG-series of weapons is the most widely used family of lightweight antitank weapons in the world today. RPGs have been used not only against their intended targets, but against personnel, fortifications, buildings, soft-skin vehicles, watercraft, and aircraft. Lightweight, relatively compact,...
Prayer, Meditation, and Spiritual Trial
Luther's Account of Life in the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Quite often, theology and spirituality are separated, pursued without reference to the other—a classic example of the disjunction between head and heart. But in Luther we find a profound theologian exhibiting a profound spirituality, one that still speaks to us today. Luther sets out three rules...
by Gordon L. Fain
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Gordon Fain’s Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Neurons, Second Edition is intended for anyone who seeks to understand nerve cell function: undergraduate and graduate students in neuroscience, students of bioengineering and cognitive science, and practicing neuroscientists who want to deepen their knowledge of recent discoveries.
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Perfectionism
A Relational Approach to Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Grounded in decades of influential research, this book thoroughly examines perfectionism: how it develops, its underlying mechanisms and psychological costs, and how to target it effectively in psychotherapy. The authors describe how perfectionistic tendencies--rooted in early relational and developmental...
Peleliu 1944
The forgotten corner of hell
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Equalling Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa in scale and ferocity, the battle for Peleliu has long been regarded as the Pacific War's "forgotten battle†?, and perhaps one that should never have been fought. A massive carrier-based attack some weeks before the invasion destroyed all aircraft and...
by Gordon L. Rottman
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
In 1964 Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, activated a joint unconventional task force known as the Studies and Observation Group-MACV-SOG. As a cover its mission was to conduct analysis of lessons learned in combat by all branches of service. SOG's real mission was to conduct covert strategic...
Hell in the Pacific
The Battle for Iwo Jima
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
The battle of Iwo Jima saw one hundred thousand men fighting over a tiny volcanic island of just 8 square miles. The island was of major strategic importance to the US Air Force. However, it was also of supreme importance to the 20,000 Japanese troops who were deeply entrenched in the island when...
Carlson’s Marine Raiders
Makin Island 1942
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
On August 17–18, 1942, 211 men of the US Marine Corps' 2nd Raider Battalion conducted a daring amphibious raid on the Japanese-occupied Makin Island in the South Pacific. This ambitious but flawed operation was intended to divert Japanese reinforcements bound for Guadalcanal, over 1,000 miles to...
US Marine vs Japanese Infantryman
Guadalcanal 1942–43
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
The brutal fighting between US Marines and Japanese infantry on the island of Guadalcanal in many ways came to typify the island-hopping war in the Pacific. This book not only explores the differing tactics and equipment used by the two combatants but also shows how the challenges of fighting in inhospitable...
US Special Warfare Units in the Pacific Theater 1941–45
Scouts, Raiders, Rangers and Reconnaissance Units
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The bitter fighting in the Pacific Theater required new forms of warfare, and the gathering of detailed intelligence information on the remote and varied islands and their determined defenders. As a result, new scout, raider and reconnaissance units were formed – the pioneers of today's special...
The Los Banos Prison Camp Raid
The Philippines 1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
On the southwest shore of Laguna de Bay in the Philippines stood the Los Banos Internment Camp. Held within were 2,147 starving POWs, surrounded by thousands of Japanese troops. As the desperate battle for Manila raged, only 130 Paratroopers could be spared for the rescue operation. Supported by Alamo...
Okinawa 1945
The last battle
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark days of humiliating defeat were far behind the...
Japanese Army in World War II
The South Pacific and New Guinea, 1942–43
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
The 1941 Japanese Pacific onslaught saw the defeat of Allied forces on all fronts, with the Philippines, Netherlands East Indies, and Commonwealth possessions falling under their control. During 1942-43, the Japanese consolidated their gains and redeployed forces in an attempt to break the Southern...