Big Guns In The Atlantic
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Big Guns In The Atlantic
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Author : Angus Konstam
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-08-19
Big Guns In The Atlantic written by Angus Konstam and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-19 with History categories.
At the outbreak of World War II the German Kriegsmarine still had a relatively small U-boat arm. To reach Britain's convoy routes in the North Atlantic, these boats had to pass around the top of the British Isles - a long and dangerous voyage to their "hunting grounds". Germany's larger surface warships were much better suited to this kind of long-range operation. So, during late 1939 the armoured cruiser Deutschland, and later the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were used as commerce raiders, to strike at Allied convoys in the North Atlantic. These sorties met with mixed results, but for Germany's naval high command they showed that this kind of operation had potential. Then, the fall of France, Denmark and Norway in early 1940 dramatically altered the strategic situation. The Atlantic was now far easier to reach, and to escape from. During 1940, further moderately successful sorties were made by the cruisers Admiral Scheer and Admiral Hipper. By the end of the year, with British mercantile losses mounting to surface raiders and U-Boats, plans were developed for a much larger raid, first using both cruisers, and then the two battlecruisers. The climax of this was Operation Berlin, the Kriegsmarine's largest and most wide-ranging North Atlantic sortie so far. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau remained at sea for two months, destroying 22 Allied merchant ships, and severely disrupting Britain's lifeline convoys. So, when the operation ended, the German commander, Admiral Lütjens was ordered to repeat his success - this time with the brand new battleship Bismarck. The rest, as they say, is history. These earlier Atlantic raids demonstrated that German surface ships could be highly effective commerce raiders. For those willing to see though, they also demonstrated just how risky this strategy could be. Covering a fascinating and detailed analysis of the Kriegsmarine's Atlantic raids between 1939 and 1941, this book will appeal to readers interested in World War II and in particular in Germany's naval operations.
Big Guns
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Author : Steve Israel
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-04-17
Big Guns written by Steve Israel and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-17 with Fiction categories.
From Steve Israel, the Congressman-turned-novelist who writes “in the full-tilt style of Carl Hiaasen” (The Washington Post), a comic tale of the mighty firearm industry, a small Long Island town, and Washington politics: “Congress should pass a law making Big Guns mandatory reading for themselves” (Nelson DeMille). When Chicago’s Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America’s cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of a huge arms company in Asabogue, Long Island, is worried. In response, he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a firearm. Events soon escalate. Asabogue’s Mayor Lois Leibowitz passes an ordinance to ban guns in the town—right in Otis Cogsworth’s backyard. Otis retaliates by orchestrating a recall election against Lois and Jack Steele, a rich town resident, runs against her. Even though the election is for the mayor of a small village on Long Island, Steele brings in the big guns of American politics to defeat Lois. Soon, thousands of pro-gun and anti-gun partisans descend on Asabogue, and the bucolic town becomes a tinderbox. Meanwhile, Washington politicians in both parties are caught between a mighty gun lobby and the absurdity of requiring that every American, with waivers for children under age four, carry a gun. What ensues is a discomfiting, hilarious indictment of the state of American politics. “New York congressman-turned-novelist Steve Israel delivers a second brilliant political satire” (Booklist, starred review). “An entertaining satire” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Big Guns is “a wonderfully irreverent satire about the fractured and fractious American political and lobbying system…a rollicking comedic trip” (Publishers Weekly).
Lethal Passage
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Author : Erik Larson
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1995-01-15
Lethal Passage written by Erik Larson and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-15 with Social Science categories.
This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. "Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done." --San Diego Union-Tribune "One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years." --Washington Post Book World It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another. In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as "the gun that made the eighties roar." The result is a book that can -- and should -- save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate.
Fortress Europe
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Author : Karl-Heinz Schmeelke
language : en
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
Release Date : 1997-01-07
Fortress Europe written by Karl-Heinz Schmeelke and has been published by Schiffer Pub Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-07 with Artillery, Coast categories.
This book covers the wide variety of large caliber artillery used by the German Wehrmacht along northern France during World War II. Also explained and diagramed are the massive emplacements, as well as ammunition and fire-control devices.
Gun Guys
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Author : Dan Baum
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2013-03-05
Gun Guys written by Dan Baum and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with Social Science categories.
Dan Baum is a gun fanatic. He is also Jewish Democrat who grew up in suburban New Jersey. In Gun Guys, he takes us on a guided tour of gun stores and gun shows, shooting ranges and festivals, contests and auctions, trying to figure out what draws so many of us to guns in the first place. Is it just part of being American? Introducing a wide cast of characters, Baum shows both sides of the gun culture in America, bringing an entire world vividly to life, and in doing so helping to find a middle ground in the gun debate, where actual conversation can take place.
More Guns Less Crime
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Author : John R Lott
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2000-06-15
More Guns Less Crime written by John R Lott and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-15 with Social Science categories.
Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it simply cause more citizens to harm each other? Directly challenging common perceptions about gun control, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever done on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws. This timely and provocative work comes to the startling conclusion: more guns mean less crime. In this paperback edition, Lott has expanded the research through 1996, incorporating new data available from states that passed right-to-carry and other gun laws since the book's publication as well as new city-level statistics. "Lott's pro-gun argument has to be examined on the merits, and its chief merit is lots of data. . . . If you still disagree with Lott, at least you will know what will be required to rebut a case that looks pretty near bulletproof."Peter Coy, Business Week "By providing strong empirical evidence that yet another liberal policy is a cause of the very evil it purports to cure, he has permanently changed the terms of debate on gun control. . . . Lott's book could hardly be more timely. . . . A model of the meticulous application of economics and statistics to law and policy."John O. McGinnis, National Review "His empirical analysis sets a standard that will be difficult to match. . . . This has got to be the most extensive empirical study of crime deterrence that has been done to date." Public Choice "For anyone with an open mind on either side of this subject this book will provide a thorough grounding. It is also likely to be the standard reference on the subject for years to come."Stan Liebowitz, Dallas Morning News "A compelling book with enough hard evidence that even politicians may have to stop and pay attention. More Guns, Less Crimeis an exhaustive analysis of the effect of gun possession on crime rates."James Bovard, Wall Street Journal "John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful, scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue."Milton Friedman
Big Gun Battles
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Author : Robert C Stern
language : en
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-30
Big Gun Battles written by Robert C Stern and has been published by Seaforth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-30 with History categories.
The outcome of much of the maritime warfare in the Second World War was decided by the torpedo or the aerial bomb, making relatively recent warship types, the submarine and aircraft carrier, the new arbiters naval conflict. Yet despite this, there was a surprising number of traditional ship-to-ship engagements involving the big guns of battleships and cruisers. This book recounts some of the most important, technically interesting, or obscure of these gunfire duels in a narrative that combines pacy storytelling with an in-depth understanding of the factors influencing victory or defeat.??Covering all theatres of the naval war from 1939 until the Japanese surrender, the incidents are selected to demonstrate the changing face of surface warfare under the influence of rapidly improving fire-control systems, radar and other sensors. By 1945 this allowed big ships to open fire at great ranges with a high probability of hitting with the first salvo. This success was the pinnacle of gunnery excellence, but also heralded the end of naval gunnery as a major factor in sea warfare _ facing such deadly accuracy, navies looked to longer-ranged, and smarter, ship-killing weapons like surface-skimming missiles and homing torpedoes.
Heavy Guns And Light
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Author : Hyland Clare Kirk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
Heavy Guns And Light written by Hyland Clare Kirk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with New York (State) categories.
Hitler S Atlantic Wall
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Author : Anthony Saunders
language : en
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Release Date : 2001
Hitler S Atlantic Wall written by Anthony Saunders and has been published by Sutton Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
This is the first English guide to the remains of the Atlantic Wall Hitler built to protect his newly conquered empire from sea invasions.
Air Service Boys In The Big Battle Or Silencing The Big Guns
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Author : Charles Amory Beach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-06
Air Service Boys In The Big Battle Or Silencing The Big Guns written by Charles Amory Beach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Charles Amory Beach was a house pseudonym used to publish a number of works for young boys at the beginning of the twentieth century. Works published using this name include: The Air Service Boys Flying for France (1918), The Air Service Boys over the Enemy's Lines (1918), The Air Service Boys in the Big Battle, or, Silencing the Big Guns (1919), The Air Service Boys over the Rhine (1919), The Air Service Boys Flying for Victory (1919) and The Air Service Boys over the Atlantic, or, The Longest Flight on Record (1920).