If a Twilight Zone episode ever gave you nightmares, it was probably written by Charles Beaumont. Most of the 30 stories in this volume are selected and prefaced by America's top authors of fantasy and suspense, writers who knew and loved Beaumont--Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Roger Corman, Harlan Ellison, and others. Includes five never-before ...
Rather than a technical treatise based on equations, this study of the Hitler era in Germany from the standpoint of chaos-complexity theory is a narrative history based on a non-linear perspective. After defining basic chaos-complexity concepts and terms, like "sensitivity to initial conditions" and "fractals", the book explores the Third Reich as ...
An overview of the International Air Force (IAF) concept, which emerged in the early 20th century. After tracing the IAF's lineage, it surveys the proliferation of IPF and IAF proposals throughout the 20th century, from schemes offered by Roosevelt to the air power coalitions of the Balkans.
This short history offers a broad and selective survey of the phenomena known as "jointness" - the combined operations of land and naval forces - up to the 20th century, with special emphasis on land, sea and air forces since World War II.
In contemporary military parlance, "special operations" denotes unconventional, often covert, military actions usually performed by specially trained forces for strictly defined objectives. In this volume, Roger Beaumont provides the most comprehensive survey available of modern special operations literature. His wide-ranging introduction sets the ...
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