Richard Estep

The Handy Armed Forces Answer Book

Your Guide to the Whats and Whys of the U.S. Military

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A thorough review of the history and achievement of the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, Space Force, and Special Forces from 1776 to the present day"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Visible Ink Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 182mm x 235mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9781578597437
• ISBN-10: 1578597439
• Artikelnr.: 62186796

Autorenporträt

Richard Estep, author and researcher, has written twenty books, including Serial Killers: The Minds, Methods, and Mayhem of History's Most Notorious Murderers. He has also written for the Journal of Emergency Medical Services. He makes his home in Colorado, a few miles north of Denver, where he serves as a paramedic and lives with his wife and a menagerie of adopted animals.

Inhaltsangabe

Photo Sources
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. U.S. Armed Forces Basics
2. Army ... The Revolutionary War … West Point … The U.S. Civil War … World
War I … World War II … The War in Korea … Vietnam … Desert Storm
3. Navy ... The Revolutionary War … The Quasi-War … Barbary War … The Naval
Academy … The Civil War … Turn of the Twentieth Century … World War I …
World War II … Vietnam … Naval Aircraft … Submarines … The Future of the
Navy
4. Marines ... Marine Basics … Establishment of the Marine Corps …War of
1812 … The Mexican-American, Civil, and Spanish-American Wars … World War I
… World War II … Korea … Vietnam … Lebanon … Grenada … Desert Shield and
Desert Storm
5. Coast Guard ... Origins of the Coast Guard … World War I … World War II
and Korea … The Greatest Rescue of All Time … Vietnam … The Coast Guard in
the Twenty-first Century
6. Air Force ... Early History … U.S. Army Air Corps and World War II … The
Air Force after World War II … The Cold War … The Age of Jet Planes … Korea
… Vietnam … The Air Force after Vietnam … Air Force One … Drones and Other
Modern Aircraft
6. Space Force ... Early Space Defenses … Establishment of the Space Force
… NORAD
7. Special Operations Forces ... The Rangers … Marine Raiders … Marine
Force Recon … Army Special Forces … Delta Force … Navy SEALS … Night
Stalkers
8. The Future
Further Reading
Index