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Get the Summary of Adam Gamal and Kelly Kennedy's The Unit in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Unit" by Adam Gamal and Kelly Kennedy is a gripping account of Gamal's journey from a vegetable vendor in Alexandria, Egypt, to a key member of the US military's most secretive unit. The narrative follows Gamal's life, starting with his childhood in a culturally rich Alexandria, his family's emphasis on education and...
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#1 The Baltic Project was never carried out, but many of the ships for it were built, including three light cruisers named Furious, Courageous, and Glorious. Their names were reversed commas.
#2 The ships had eighteen 4-inch BLIX guns in six Mark I triple mountings, twelve on each broadside, two 3-inch high-angle guns, four 3-pounder Hotchkiss saluting guns, five Maxim...
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#1 The year 1915 was disastrous for the Allies and the entire world. By the mistakes of this year, the opportunity was lost to confine the fire within limits that were not uncontrollable.
#2 The Battle of the Marne was a complete deadlock between the great combatants in the West by land and by sea. The German fleet remained sheltered in its fortified harbours, and the...
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Book Preview: #1 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected president in 1961. He was young and optimistic, and he projected that he was ready to chart a new course for his country and the world. He wanted to pass the torch of moral leadership to Frost, who wrote a poem specifically for the inauguration.
#2 Kennedy's vision was to create a new America, based on liberty, that would be brought...
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#1 The 2,500 survivors of Battle Group Lammerding were ordered to move to France and form part of the Das Reich division. They were leaving behind their few remaining tanks, vehicles, and guns, as well as the memory of thousands of their dead in frozen graves.
#2 The 2nd SS Das Reich Armored Division was not a shadow of its former self when it arrived in Bordeaux from...
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#1 The end of the Second World War in Europe in 1945 brought about a dilemma for the Allies. They wanted to punish the German nation, but they didn't want to make the Nazis seem like martyrs.
#2 The Allied powers decided that Germany needed to renounce its past, and to do that, they needed to help in its rebuilding. However, they did not send in Einsatzgruppen death...
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#1 In 2010, two small SUV's and a four-door pickup truck headed down a dirt road in the mountains of southern Afghanistan. They had set out soon after midnight, traveling cross-country to reach Highway 1, which would lead them to Kandahar and north to Kabul.
#2 The video was being watched at Hurlburt Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle by a dedicated team of young...
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#1 The choice of William Westmoreland as commander of American forces in Vietnam was a fateful one. He was chosen from a slate of four candidates presented to President Lyndon B. Johnson. The others were General Harold K. Johnson, who instead became Army Chief of Staff, General Creighton Abrams, who was assigned as Vice Chief of Staff to Johnson, and General Bruce Palmer,...
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#1 The raid on St Nazaire was a success, and the fire in the Forge de l'Ouest continued to burn fiercely. The guns ceased fire, the searchlights were switched off, and an uneasy quiet fell over the town and the estuary. Neither French nor Germans knew that this was mainly due to humanitarian reasons.
#2 On the night of the 28th, some residents of the moonlit Boulevard...
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#1 The British officer class was reluctant to believe that the good life was about to end. They had always been able to depend on the British to defend them, and they underestimated the Japanese military threat.
#2 The Wrens were in specially built wooden quarters, two sharing a cabin, and each with the luxury of an ensuite bathroom. They had locally employed servants....
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#1 The three-part system that Marine units are organized on is focused downward and decentralized. The regiment, commanded by Kennedy, had three battalions. The 3/5 battalion, commanded by Morris, had three rifle companies. Each company had three rifle platoons.
#2 On the second day, a squad of thirteen Marines set off from Inkerman to scout to the northwest. When they...
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#1 The Soviet nuclear ballistic missile submarine K-129 left Petropavlovsk, on Russia's remote, frigid Kamchatka peninsula, with a crew of ninety-eight after dark on February 24, 1968, for a routine but unexpected patrol. The captain and second-in-command were both experienced officers.
#2 The crew of the K-129 was split into two groups for the duration of the break....
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#1 The American public is largely unaware of the fact that President Donald Trump has sole nuclear authority. Many believe that he must get congressional approval, while in fact he is not required to do so. The Founders tried to constrain presidential power, but they could not have anticipated the discovery of the nuclear bomb.
#2 There are many control systems in place...
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#1 The Clash between China and Japan did not begin in 1937. It had been brewing for decades. The story of the first half of China's twentieth century is the story of its love-hate relationship with its smaller island neighbor.
#2 The Chinese influence was at its peak during this period. The dynasty was established by ethnic Manchus who rode into the Chinese heartland...
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#1 In 1913, it was Belgium where the force fields of European integration most overlapped. The medieval Flemish city of Ghent hosted the Exposition Universelle et Internationale, as had Brussels a few years before.
#2 The age of empire, and Belgium's role in it, can be seen in the 1913 World's Fair in Ghent, which was hosted by a Belgian king. The gold and white exhibition...
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#1 The Second World War was the first war in which air power played a major role. The generation of Army airmen who came of age in the 1930s were enthralled by the theories of the Italian and American generals, Giulio Douhet and Billy Mitchell, who saw air power as the decisive force in wars of the future.
#2 The history of the A-bomb is the history of the generals...
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#1 I had always been interested in the military, and World War II was starting to heat up. I was poring over books about the Civil War at my Great-aunt Myra's in Kennedy, New York. When England and France declared war on Germany in September 1939, I thought we would soon become involved.
#2 I was only fifteen when I enlisted in the Army in 1940, and I was homesick. I...
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#1 Simo Häyhä was a Finnish farmer who fought in the Winter War. He was known as the Snow Hunter, as he enjoyed snow skiing, hunting, and shooting. He died on April 1, 2002 in the Kymi Institute for Disabled War Veterans, in the town of Hamina.
#2 Simo Häyhä, a member of the Rautjärvi Civil Guard, was a top-notch marksman who won several prizes in Civil Guard regional...
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#1 I was raised by a Navy brat and had been around the military long enough to know that some of the soldiers were not the sharpest knives in the drawer. I was not officially in the military yet, but I had raised my right hand and taken the oath of allegiance.
#2 At Fort Polk, the army processed us quickly. We were given haircuts, uniforms, and immunizations. The whole...
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#1 The weekend of 12 - 14 June 1914 was a busy one at Konopischt, the hunting lodge and favorite home of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Here, he could indulge his passion for field sports and escape the stultifying conventions of the Habsburg court in Vienna.
#2 The Concert of Europe was an order that was established in 1815 to prevent major war on the continent for...
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