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First published in 1986: This book is to help medical, pharmacy, and advanced students in science to understand the growing importance of continuously advancing biochemical concepts in human disease.

First published in 1986: This book is to help medical, pharmacy, and advanced students in science to understand the growing importance of continuously advancing biochemical concepts in human disease.

At the outbreak of World War II, the U.S. had no units specializing in winter and mountain warfare, lagging behind its allies and, more ominously, its enemies.

Using previously unpublished diaries, letters, and photographs-plus the writings of war correspondent John T. McCutcheon-Feuer offers a vivid account of America's war in the Philippine Islands during the early part of the 20th century. This story highlights the experiences of the American soldiers, sailors, and marines who participated in the major battles. Not only did they fight a determined enemy, they also battled the weather, the jungle, ...

The story of the US Navy's contribution to the Allied victory in World War I, this text recounts the tale of the US Merchant Marine, the Naval Air Service and the captains of industry who helped make victory possible.

By piecing together diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and rare privately printed memoirs, the author has created a story which tells how America's ragtag navy-composed mainly of converted yachts, steamers and tugboats-was able to fight and win against the more powerful Spanish gunboats. The naval battles fought in places like Santiago, Cardenas, Cienfuegos, Manzanillo, Port Nipe, Guantanamo, San Juan, Guanica, and Ponce come alive in this book. Th...

An account of the Santiago land campaign of the Spanish-American War, as conducted by General William R. Shafter's Fifth Army Corps. The narrative is based on information gathered from diaries, memoirs and regimental and company histories of the men who participated in the campaign.

This little-known story of Australia's M/Z Unit commandos, and the part they played in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, is a fascinating account of daring, clandestine operations conducted by the Allies deep into enemy-held territory. M Unit personnel were secretly landed to set up coastwatching posts and radio stations to report on Japanese shipping movements and bombing flights heading to raid Allied positions. Members of the Z Uni...

The story of the "Old Army" as revealed through the eyes of Colonel Jacob Kreps, this book portrays life in action with the US Infantry on the Western frontier, in the Spanish-American War, and in the Philippine Insurrection. Kreps served with the 22nd Infantry Regiment for more than 30 years.

In the jungle islands of the southwest Pacific, Australia's elite M/Z commando teams conducted daring rescue, sabotage, and intelligence missions during World War II.

The Allied coast watching network in the Solomons was one of the most successful intelligence operations of World War II.

This story of the Solomon Island coast watchers, primarily Jack Read and Paul Mason, recounts one of the most successful intelligence operations of World War II. Few realized that when the first waves of U.S. Marines landed on the bitterly contested beaches of Guadalcanal, coast watchers on Bougainville, New Georgia, and other islands were sending warning signals of impending Japanese air raids almost two hours before enemy aircraft formation ...

Relates the personal experiences of men who fought with the 10th Mountain Division in both Alaska and Italy during World War II.