Dirk Anthony Ballendorf and Merrill L Bartlett (1)
Edited by James C Bradford (1)
Homer H Hickam Jr (1)
(-) Jack Stuster (1)
(-) John Grider Miller (1)
Joseph R Owen (1)
Lawrence Suid (1)
Mary Pat Kelly (1)
(-) Roger C Dunham (1)
Suzanne J Stark (1)
(-) Theodore L Gatchel (1)
William Laird Clowes (2)
William M Leary and Leonard A LeShack (1)
Bold Endeavors
Lessons from Polar and Space Exploration
By Jack Stuster
Bold Endeavors: Lessons from Polar and Space Exploration presents the results of 15 years of research for NASA and the Department of Defense concerning the factors that contribute to adjustment and sustained human performance under conditions of isolation and confinement. The research involved the study of previous space operations and conditions on Earth, such as submarines, Antarctic stations, polar expeditions ...
Spy Sub
A Top Secret Mission to the Bottom of the Pacific
By Roger C. Dunham
Spy Sub is the acclaimed story of the secret mission by the USS Viperfish to find a lost Soviet submarine armed with nuclear missiles in the great depths of the Pacific Ocean. This mission is still classified by the U.S. Department of Defense, nearly 50 years after the event. Moving silently beneath the Soviet ships searching on the surface, the ...
At the Water's Edge
Defending Against the Modern Amphibious Assault
By Theodore L. Gatchel
Conventional military wisdom holds that the amphibious assault against a defended beach is the most difficult of all military operations--yet modern amphibious landings have been almost universally successful. This apparent contradiction is fully explored in this first look at 20th-century amphibious warfare from the perspective of the defender.
The author, Col. Theodore L. Gatchel, USMC (Ret.), examines amphibious operations from ...
The Bridge at Dong Ha
By John Grider Miller
This is the true story of the legendary Vietnam War hero John Ripley, who braved intense enemy fire to destroy a strategic bridge and stall a major North Vietnamese invasion into the South in April 1972. Told by a fellow Marine, the account lays bare Ripley's innermost thoughts as he rigged 500 pounds of explosives by hand-walking the beams beneath ...