[PDF] Running Guns eBook

Author : Lora Lumpe
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 35,10 MB
Release : 2000-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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This volume is about the guns that fuel the huge toll of deaths in the world's most bloody conflicts at the turn of the century. Whether it is Africa, Sri Lanka or even Chechnya and Afghanistan, it is not heavy weaponry or hi-tech devices that kill the most people, but the flood of cheap, easy to get, small arms that has swept over so many countries in the 80s and 90s. Crime rates involving guns within countries have also soared, as South Africa and Kenya, for example, have experienced. Yet a lot of this cross-border arms trade is illegal. So much so that several governments, including the United States, Canada and Mexico, are now pressing for rapid negotiation of a new global treaty on illegal trafficking in small arms.

Author : Nicholas Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1472827074

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As part of an elite special operations unit at the fighting edge of the Global War on Terrorism, Nicholas Moore spent over a decade with the US Army's 75th Ranger Regiment on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. In this compelling biography, a detailed narrative of gruelling life on the ground combines with accounts of some of the most dramatic search and rescue operations of the period to tell the true story of life on the line in the War on Terror. Charting his rise from private to senior non-commissioned officer, this title follows Moore as he embarks on a series of dangerous deployments, engaging in brutal street combat and traversing inhospitable terrain in pursuit of Taliban fighters and Iraq's Most Wanted. Including revelatory first-hand accounts of high-profile special operations missions including the tense rescue of Private First Class Jessica Lynch and the search and rescue mission for US Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell, Moore recounts, in vivid detail, the realities of life on the front line.

Author : Chanty Jong
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1476682534

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Running Toward the Guns is an autobiographical story and an accounting of Chanty Jong's personal inner self-healing journey that led to a successfully unexpected discovery. Jong survived the Cambodian genocide during the Khmer Rouge regime of 1975-1979, witnessing the horrors of the killing fields, torture, starvation and much more. Her vivid narrative recounts the suffering under the Khmer Rouge, her perseverance to survive physically and emotionally and her perilous escape to America. Her memoir relives the traumatic memories of her experiences and traces her arduous personal transformation toward a life of inner peace through intensive meditation.

Author : Tony DeMeo
Publisher : Coaches Choice Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781585189250

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Coaching the Complete Triple Gun Offense (including the bonus DVD The Triple Gun Offense: Understanding the Basics), offers coaches at all competitive levels on both sides of the ball the perfect tools to better understand the key aspects of the triple gun offense. Topics include philosophy and organization, coaching the triple gun triple options, coaching the double options in the triple gun offense, the triple gun power attack, the triple gun draws and counter plays, installing the passing game, ripple gun screens and bubbles, the triple gun quick- passing game, the triple gun dropback-passing game, triple gun play-action passing, triple gun boot passes, and more. The companion 41-minute DVD, included with the book, brings Coach DeMeo's concepts to life. Contains nearly 200 diagrams and illustrations.

Author : Gerry Souter
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1627885420

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“Chronicles the misdeeds of many of America’s worst miscreants, with special emphasis on the tools of the outlaw trade.” —American Rifleman From colonial-era rifles carried on the “Owlhoot Trail” to John Dillinger’s Colt pistols, the history of the American outlaw is told in guns—weapons that became each man’s personal signature. Authors Gerry and Janet Souter peer into these criminals’ choices of derringers, revolvers, shotguns, rifles, machine guns, and curious hybrids, giving us a glimpse into the minds behind the trigger fingers. With over 200 illustrations, Guns of Outlaws gives a unique look at the lives and the hardware of the most infamous outlaws in American history, and of the law enforcement officers who hunted them. As settlers moved further west, away from authority and soft city life into the Great Plains, the push for survival through the endless prairies and jagged isolating mountain ranges bred ruthless men. Most outlaws were technology freaks who seized upon the latest weapon innovations developed in the industrious East to provide an edge in the life-and-death cosmos of the Wild West. By the late 1930s and early 1940s, outlaws on horseback had given way to marauding bank robbers. Using fast cars and faster guns, they became folk heroes of the Great Depression, even as the law was hard on their tails. “Historians Gerry and Janet Souter take the reader back to a time between 1840 and 1940 when . . . outlaws and man hunters lived bold and died hard . . . [The] book show[s] actual tools of the trade wielded during a violent century, bound up in a mix of hard truths and mythology.” —Ammoland.com