Download or read book A Sappers War written by Jimmy Thomson and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We make and we break. They were the forward scouts, the mine clearers, the bridge builders, and the tunnel rats. They were frequently not just on the front line, but right at the sharp end of the action. They were the legendary Aussie Sappers, the army engineers, who were literally everywhere in the fighting against the Vietcong. This special breed of soldier lived hard and played hard. They were there at the beginning of the war; they were also among the last to leave. And along the way, they fought with their mates in the infantry and in the tanks to bear the brunt of the Vietcong's revenge. To the rest of the world, Vietnam was a conflict of ideologies. On the ground it was a battle of wits and the sappers were at the forefront. This is their story.
Download or read book Sappers in the Wire written by Keith W. Nolan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the costly 1971 surprise attack on Firebase Mary Ann draws on declassified documents and interviews with more than fifty veterans of the 1st Battalion of the 46th Infantry. Reprint.
Download or read book A Sapper s War written by Jimmy Thomson and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We make and we break.' They were the forward scouts, the mine clearers, the bridge builders and the tunnel rats. They were frequently not just on the front line, but right at the sharp end of the action. They were the legendary Aussie sappers, the army engineers, who were literally everywhere in the fighting against the Vietcong. This special breed of soldier lived hard and played hard. They were there at the beginning of the war. They were also among the last to leave. And on the way, they fought alongside their mates in infantry and tanks and bore the brunt of the Vietcong's revenge. To the rest of the world, Vietnam was a conflict of ideologies. On the ground it was a battle of wits and the sappers were at the forefront. This is their story.
Download or read book Subterranean Sappers written by Iain McHenry and published by Uniform. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of a military tunnelling company published since the 1920's, Subterranean Sappers is a comprehensive survey of the 177 Tunnelling Company and the crucial role that they played during World War I. It details the entire history of the Company, from its formation on the Western Front in 1915 to the reasons for its eventual disbandment after the war. There is also a close study of the men of all ranks who made up the Company, including where they were from and what specific roles they played in tunnelling operations. Iain McHenry focuses heavily on the daily struggle the Company faced underground, due to the ever-present mine threat from the Germans, and details the tunnel systems and dugouts they constructed, with accompanying color plans. He also includes tense first-hand accounts of hand-to-hand altercations with German soldiers that occurred underground. Most important, Subterranean Sappers explains the vital role of tunneling companies in the greater scheme of the war and offers fascinating details on an understudied military tactic, which will be of interest to war historians and tourists alike.
Download or read book Sappers in the Wire written by Keith William Nolan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Battle for Saigon and The Magnificent Bastards comes this first full-scale account of one of the U.S. Army's darkest moments in Vietnam. Includes eight pages of photos.
Download or read book Sappers at War written by Anthony Armstrong Willis and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sappers War with Ninth Australian Division Engineers written by Ken Ward-Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sapper Dorothy written by Dorothy Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of an intrepid young woman on the Western Front It would not be quite accurate to portray Dorothy Lawrence as a bona fide soldier of the British Army. Dorothy was in fact a young woman with great aspirations to embark upon a career in journalism and she knew it would be a coup to give a female perspective of the activities of men on the front line-as it were-from within their own ranks. So she devised a scheme to bring her objectives about and its success was marked by a 10 day stint in the line at Albert in 1915 with the Royal Engineers during the opening stages of the battle of Loos. Dorothy certainly saw action-the trench she occupied lay less than 400 yards from the German front line. She was eventually discovered and the entire story of how she pulled off her subterfuge, her time in the trenches and what befell her thereafter is told in this delightful account. This is a notable account of the Great War from a woman's viewpoint. Available in soft back or hard cover with dust jacket.
Download or read book The Sappers War with Ninth Australian Division Engineers 1939 1945 written by K. Ward-Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Salute the Sappers The operations of the South African Engineer Corps in the North African and Italian theatres of war from the Battle of El Alamein to the end of World War II with a brief description of subsequent developments written by Neil D. Orpen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sappers War with Ninth Australian Division Engineers 1939 43 written by Ken Ward-Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sappers at War Illustrated by Raff Short Stories written by Anthony ARMSTRONG (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fourth Arm of Defense written by Salvatore R. Mercogliano and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2017 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the eighth in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. The publication focuses on the sealift and logistic operations during the war and includes a number of photographs as well as sidebars detailing specific people and ships involved in the logistic operations. This historical pictorial reference would be of interest to students, historians, members of the military, specifically the Navy, and military leaders, veterans, Vietnam War veterans, and the U.S. merchant marines.
Download or read book Underground Warfare written by Daphné Richemond-Barak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underground warfare, a tactic of yesteryear, has re-emerged as a global and rapidly diffusing threat. This book is the first of its kind to examine tunnel warfare in a systematic and comprehensive way, addressing the legal issues while keeping in mind operational and strategic challenges. Like many other aspects of contemporary warfare, the renewed use of the subterranean in armed conflict presents a challenge for democracies wishing to abide by the law. To Dr. Richemond-Barak, this challenge has not only been under-explored, it is also largely underestimated by the community of states, security experts, and public opinion. She analyzes traditional concepts of the laws of war as they relate to tunnels and underground operations, contemplating questions such as whether tunnels constitute legitimate targets, the assessment of proportionality in anti-tunnel operations, and the availability of advanced warning in this complex terrain. She also identifies issues that are unique to underground warfare, including those that arise when cross-border tunnels burrow under a state's own civilian infrastructure.
Download or read book The Third Round written by Sapper and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-05-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of Professor Goodman is recorded as a tragic accident. At the inquest, no mention is made of his discovery of a way of manufacturing flawless diamonds at negligible cost. Captain Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond’s suspicions are aroused and he untangles a sinister plot of greed and murder, which climaxes in a dramatic motorboat chase.
Download or read book Follow the Sapper written by Gerald Napier and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
