Himalayan Blunder : The Angry Truth About India's Most Crushing Military Disaster

The Indian military setback against the Chinese attack in 1962 called for an honest critique. Quite a few books written by Army officers have tried to tell their version of the untold story. Quite a few books written by Army officers have tried to tell their version of the untold story. Dalvi's account of the Sino-Indian War is by far the most remarkable and authentic. He was presenting the theatre of war throughout, commanding a brigade and was held captive by the Chinese for seven months. In discussing the day-to-day events from 8 September to 20 October 1962, the author graphically tells the truth which only a participant could experience and know. The background of the war is drawn from his first-hand information as a high-ranking military commander.

Historic Fort York, 1793-1993

Fearing an American invasion of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe had Fort York built in 1793 as an emergency defensive measure. That act became the first step in the founding of modern Toronto. Twenty years later, the Fort was the scene of the bloody Battle of York in which the famous American explorer, Zebulon Pike, died leading US forces against the Fort's outnumbered Canadian, British and Aboriginal defenders. The Americans won this battle and torched the province's public buildings during a six-day occupation. A year later, British forces retaliated by capturing Washington and burning its government buildings, including the White House. Rebuilt in time to drive off another American attack in 1814, Fort York was maintained through the 1880s to guard against internal unrest and potential American annexation. Even after its defences became obsolete, Fort York continued to serve as barracks and training grounds for the Toronto garrison until the 1930s, when it reopened as a historic site museum. In this book, Carl Benn explores the dramatic roles Fort York played in the frontier war of the 1790s, the birth of Toronto, the War of 1812, the Rebellion of 1837 and the defence of Canada during the American Civil War, and describes how Toronto's most important heritage site came to be preserved as a tangible link to Canada's turbulent military past.

Iron Arm : The Mechanization of Mussolini's Army, 1920-1940

A detailed study of Italy's long-ignored tank force
Explores the intersection of technology, war, and society in Mussolini's Italy
Second only to Germany in number of tank divisions, first to create an armored corps

Though overshadowed by Germany's more famous Afrika Korps, Italian tanks formed a large part of the Axis armored force that the Allies confronted - and ultimately defeated - in North Africa in the early years of World War II. Those tanks were the product of two decades of debate and development as the Italian military struggled to produce a modern, mechanized army in the aftermath of World War I. For a time, Italy stood near the front of the world's tank forces - but once war came, Mussolini's iron arm failed as an effective military force. This is the story of its rise and fall.

Author the late John Joseph Timothy Sweet studied under Sir Basil Liddell Hart and earned a doctorate from Kansas State University. A native of California, Sweet was killed on active duty with the U.S. Army.

Lethal Mists : An Introduction to the Natural and Military Sciences of Chemical, Biological Warfare and Terrorism

Lethal Mists is a nontechnical narrative of chemical, biological warfare and terrorism (CBWT) for the general, non-scientist, non-military background reader. It examines the scientific and military basis and considerations behind the use of chemical and biological agents to injure and kill people. It explains in the simplest terms possible the various agent types, their use, effects on people, how they injure or kill, and the means of detection, treatment, antidotes and decontamination. Where technical terms are introduced, they are clearly and simply defined. The tactical considerations for the use of CBWT agents also are explained as they apply to terrorist use against civilian populations. Lethal Mists also views the nature of the threat to civilians, self-defense and warning techniques, and measures one may take to protect family and self if living near a chemical plant. This book is designed to explain to the nontechnical reader just what CBWT is, threats and how you may be alerted to such an act in progress. It is not a cookbook for the production of these highly lethal and indiscriminate agents. It is for education and where possible, self-defense and awareness. After all, the greatest weapons used by the terrorist are ignorance and fear.

This comprehensive study, based on archival material from across Europe, examines the military and political career of Ion Antonescu, one of the most controversial figures in contemporary Romanian history. He rose quickly to become chief of operations for the Romanian Army in 1917 and was considered one of the most dynamic element of the Romanian command. He is credited with the authorship of Romania's most important military operations including the defense of Moldova in 1917 and the 1918 campaign for Transylvania, leading to its union with Romania. Antonescu earned a similarly impressive reputation as a military reformer, a champion of the Little Entente, and a staunch advocate of a pro-French and pro-British foreign policy orientation during the inter-war period. In a striking paradox, after becoming head of the Romanian state in September 1940, Antonescu became Germany's most important military ally against the Soviet Union during World War II. He was later condemned for Fascism although he crushed Romania's native Fascist movement, the Iron Guard, in 1941. And he continues to be vilified as an anti-Semitic mass murderer even though the survival rate of the Jewish population under his control during the war was greater, with the exception of Finland, than that of any other Axis ally, protectorate or occupied area.