Visitors to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. describe their feelings about the war and why they came to the memorial

Facing the wall: Americans at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Spencer, Duncan

Collier Books

Visitors to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. describe their feelings about the war and why they came to the memorial

Facing the Wall: Americans at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

History

Wolf, Lloyd

Americas

Pressure from consultants, insurers, trainers or those supporting National & International Standards seem to create the feeling that somehow you haven't done enough to ensure people are safe yet. Of course, they have vested interest in trying to sell you solutions that you may not necessarily need. Then there is the challenge many enlightened boards are wrestling with; how do you move beyond mere legal compliance without making things too complicated and costly or by inadvertently going too far? In many disciplines, getting the basics right can be very powerful in achieving great performance and health & safety is no different. This book is packed with ideas that will help any organisation to "get the basics right". It is the direct experience of the authors that these ideas are applicable to all industries, all operational circumstances and in many different countries. It contains simple and powerful messages that can transform performance and help to create a positive organisational health & safety culture. It is a "how to" handbook that has evolved from real-world experience.&#12288; Being risk-led and evidence-driven delivers business benefit and keeps people safe.

Risk-Led Safety: Evidence-Driven Management, Second Edition

Business & Money

Jerman, Chris

Economics

CRC-Press

Love Gone Wrong

Signet

Risk-Led Safety: Evidence-driven Management

The International Institute of Risk and Safety Management

World War II, which occurred precisely at the juncture between air transport capability and the invention of the helicopter, saw history’s first and only mass use of paratroopers dropped into battle from the sky, perhaps the most courageous combat task seen in modern warfare. And "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin was by all accounts America’s best paratrooper leader. His first combat jump was in Sicily, where as a battalion commander he found his men scattered all over the landscape in one of airborne’s greatest fiascos. Yet his stand with a few stalwarts at Biazza Ridge is credited with saving the U.S. invasion front. In Normandy, as assistant division commander of the 82nd Airborne, he won the eternal affection of his men for continuing to lead in combat, M-1 slung over his shoulder, even as his paratroopers were similarly scattered and faced German fire on all sides. His cool leadership served to coalesce the paratrooper bridgehead behind enemy lines until infantry from the beaches could finally reach them. During Operation Market Garden, now as commander of the 82nd, Gavin wrote a new chapter in paratrooper heroism, seizing all his objectives despite a serious spinal injury on landing. With hardly a respite after the grueling campaign in Holland, Gavin and his men were called upon for perhaps their most dangerous task—stemming the German onslaught during the Battle of the Bulge. Though most historical kudos have gone to the 101st Airborne in that battle, for their gallant stand at Bastogne, it was the 82nd’s stand at St. Vith—where the Germans truly wanted to break through—that equally foiled Hitler’s last offensive attempt in the west. After the war Gavin continued to earn as much respect from policymakers as he had from his men, providing commentary on our Cold War stance, the war in Vietnam, and as Kennedy’s ambassador to France. He was not an unflawed individual, as this comprehensive biography reveals, but an exceptional one in every sense, especially during his days of combat leadership during history’s greatest war.

Paratrooper: The Life of General James M. Gavin

Biographies & Memoirs

Booth, T. Michael

Historical

Casemate

Adventures of Dinky the Cat

Children's Books

Animals

Duncan Spencer

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