Inevitable Retribution

Inevitable Retribution PDF

Author: William Sites

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 1628579978

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After an asteroid impact, society is thrust into chaos where the strong survive, the weak succumb, and the meek get revenge. This is an epic tale in which characters such as a wilderness survival expert, a psychic, a biker, and a Latino with a machine gun-equipped Mini Cooper cross paths in their search for refuge from the fast becoming apocalyptic world. Survivors salvage what is left of their former lives and attempt to cling onto their humanity. A small band gathers in Wolf Valley, a paradise considered by some. But the Knights of New America have stumbled upon this Eden and threaten to commandeer the little haven. Set in the rural countryside of eastern Pennsylvania, Inevitable Retribution has twists you never see coming.

Retribution

Retribution PDF

Author: Prit Buttar

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-10-31

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1472835336

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From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar comes this paperback edition of his detailed and engrossing account of the World War II's Eastern Front as German forces were driven back following the Battle of Kursk. Making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers to bring this story to life, Retribution follows on from On A Knife's Edge, which described the encirclement and destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad and the offensives and counteroffensives that followed throughout the winter of 1942–43. Beginning towards the end of the Battle of Kursk, Retribution tells the story of the massive Soviet offensive that followed the end of Operation Zitadelle, which saw depleted and desperate German troops forced out of Western Ukraine. This title describes in detail the little-known series of near-constant battles that saw a weakened German army confronted by a tactically sophisticated force of over six million Soviet troops. As a result, the Wehrmacht was driven back to the Dnepr and German forces remaining in the Kuban Peninsula south of Rostov were forced back into the Crimea, a retreat which would become one of many in the months that followed.

Solon the Thinker

Solon the Thinker PDF

Author: John David Lewis

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1472521137

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In Solon the Thinker, John Lewis presents the hypothesis that Solon saw Athens as a self-governing, self-supporting system akin to the early Greek conceptions of the cosmos. Solon's polis functions not through divine intervention but by its own internal energy, which is founded on the intellectual health of its people, depends upon their acceptance of justice and moderation as orderly norms of life, and leads to the rejection of tyranny and slavery in favour of freedom. But Solon's naturalistic views are limited; in his own life each person is subject to the arbitrary foibles of moira, the inscrutable fate that governs human life, and that brings us to an unknowable but inevitable death. Solon represents both the new rational, scientific spirit that was sweeping the Aegean - and a return to the fatalism that permeated Greek intellectual life. This first paperback edition contains a new appendix of translations of the fragments of Solon by the author.

Soviet Naval Forces And Nuclear Warfare

Soviet Naval Forces And Nuclear Warfare PDF

Author: James J Tritten

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-26

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1000312615

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Based on formal content analysis of the writings of Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov and past Soviet ministers of defense and heads of the Politburo, James J. Tritten interprets what the Soviets say they will do in the event of nuclear war. He then constructs a hardware and exercise analysis of the strategic employment of the Soviet Navy in a nuclear war, offering three possible cases–the a bolt from the blue, with existing forces on patrol; full mobilization; and a plausible case of partial mobilization. In addition, Dr. Tritten examines, from a Soviet perspective, concepts of deterrence, the strategic goals and missions of the fleet, nuclear targeting policy, the Sea Lines of Communication (SLOC) disruption mission, and the potential for tactical nuclear warfare limited to the sea. The author concludes by assessing the implications of Soviet politico-military planning for Western defense strategy and arms control.