The Blue Berets
Author | : Michael Harbottle |
Publisher | : Harrisburg, P.: Stackpole Books, c1971, 1972 printing. |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Arbitration (International law) |
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Author | : Michael Harbottle |
Publisher | : Harrisburg, P.: Stackpole Books, c1971, 1972 printing. |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Arbitration (International law) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Steve Zaloga |
Publisher | : Presidio Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Inside the Blue Berets looks at the origins of the Russian shock troops. It provides an exciting description of the harrowing Russian airborne assaults of World War II and the combat uses of these troops in the Cold War years as they took on an important new role as "imperial storm troopers" - the infantry that enforced Soviet power, first in Hungary and later in Czechoslovakia. By then paratroopers had become a true elite, with the best and brightest of the Red Army competing for the prized blue beret. In the 1980s, the VDV became trapped in the quagmire of Afghanistan. Bloodied and weary after ten years of brutal fighting, the paratroopers returned home and were immediately ordered to don their flak jackets and control the civil turmoil resulting from perestroika. Inside the Blue Berets offers the first lucid description of the murky situation that surrounded the breakup of the USSR.
Author | : John Edward Gunby HADATH |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1941 |
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Author | : Jaup Zenuni |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Peacekeeping forces |
ISBN | : 9789992732618 |
Author | : Bobbie Ann Mason |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2012-07-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0812978870 |
Inspired by the wartime experiences of her father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason has crafted the haunting and profoundly moving story of an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his wrenching odyssey of discovery, decades later, as he uncovers the truth about those who helped him escape in 1944. At twenty-three, Marshall Stone was a confident, cocksure U.S. flyboy stationed in England, with several bombing raids in a B-17 under his belt. But when enemy fighters forced his plane to crash-land in a Belgian field during a mission to Germany, Marshall had to rely solely on the kindness of ordinary Belgian and French citizens to help him hide from and evade the Nazis. Decades later, restless and at the end of his career as an airline pilot, Marshall returns to the crash site and finds himself drawn back in time, unable to stop thinking about the people who risked their lives to save Allied pilots like him. Most of all, he is obsessed by the girl in the blue beret, a courageous young woman who protected and guided him in occupied Paris. Framed in spellbinding, luminous prose, Marshall’s search for her gradually unfolds, becoming a voyage of discovery that reveals truths about himself and the people he knew during the war. Deeply beautiful and impossible to put down, The Girl in the Blue Beret is an unforgettable story—intimate, affecting, exquisite—of memories, second chances, and one intrepid girl who risked it all for a stranger.
Author | : Katherine Harvey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Henry McDonald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : United Nations. Peace-Keeping Force in Cyprus |
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Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : L. Scott Lingamfelter |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2023-07-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0813197643 |
In 1948 the United Nations launched the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization following the conflict that erupted between Israel and its Arab neighbors, who profoundly opposed the creation of a Jewish state. UNTSO quickly found itself overseeing the ceasefire lines between combatant parties. In the ensuing decades, as countries along the eastern Mediterranean engaged in a series of escalating military conflicts, UNTSO was continually challenged in its peacekeeping mission, often having to alter its configuration. Matters came to a head in 1982, when Israel invaded Lebanon for a second time, calling into question the efficacy of UN peacekeeping operations and US support for them. In Yanks in Blue Berets: American UN Peacekeepers in the Middle East, retired US Army colonel and former UN military observer L. Scott Lingamfelter chronicles the role of the US military in UN Middle East peacekeeping operations. Framed by his personal experiences, the book examines the difficulties faced by UN forces wedged between warring sides with limited trust in their authority as well as the challenging dichotomy of a soldier trained for combat yet immersed in unarmed peacekeeping. Yanks in Blue Berets is a "boots on the ground" perspective of the building Arab-Israeli tensions and geopolitics preceding the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
Author | : Grant Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 1999 |
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