Biographies & Memoirs
epub, mobi | | 2004-06-29 | Author:Harold G. Moore;Joseph L. Galloway [Galloway, Harold G. Moore;Joseph L.]

Rescorla and his men had been watching the air show appreciatively. "We gathered for the last sweep. Suddenly a fighter-bomber plowed down from above. We buried our noses at the ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Sam Adams [Adams, Sam]

Regulars: 119,000 Service Troops: 37,500 Guerrillas: 80,000 Military Total: 236,500 Political Cadres: 80,000 In other words, the agency had gone along with MACV’s mimeographed bargain—and then some. The militia had ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Marcus Luttrell [Luttrell, Marcus]

7 An Avalanche of Gunfire Down the mountain, from every angle. Axe flanked left, trying to cut off the downward trail, firing nonstop. Mikey was blasting away...shouting,...“Marcus, no options now, ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:James R. Hansen [Hansen, James R.]

On the one hand to dwell in the very center of technological reality…yet to inhabit—if only in one’s dreams—that other world where death, metaphysics and the unanswerable questions of eternity ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Duncan Falconer [Falconer, Duncan]

8 Before going over the water we were given two days’ leave. I went home to Poole to see some squadron friends and also to do some judo. I was ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Eric Blehm [Blehm, Eric]

His absolute dedication ensured 100 percent accountability and maintenance of over 300K of parachutes and associated mission essential equipment [while he] served as lead instructor and established standard operating procedures ...
( Category: Men's Issues March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Al Worden [Worden, Al]

CHAPTER 8 LAUNCH You never forget launch day. Finally, your mission is about to begin. You are in a special zone, like an athlete walking out for an Olympic event. ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gray, Wesley R. [Gray, Wesley R.]

Insurgent Snipers Attack After three hours of dreamless sleep, I awoke to the sound of roaring generator engines and the sight of an Iraqi civilian snooping outside the building. Instinctively ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Luis Carlos Montalvan

CHAPTER 13 THANKSGIVING And I will put my father to the test, See if the old man knows me now, on sight, or fails to, after twenty years apart. —HOMER, ...
( Category: Afghan War March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-16 | Author:Laura Hillenbrand [Hillenbrand, Laura]

Twenty-five B-29 ON ONE OF THE LAST DAYS OF OCTOBER 1944, LOUIE pushed a wheelbarrow over the Omori bridge, through the village at the bridge’s end, and into Tokyo. With ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Julius Caesar [Caesar, Julius]

XLIX.—Caesar, when he perceived that his soldiers were fighting on unfavourable ground, and that the enemy's forces were increasing, being alarmed for the safety of his troops, sent orders to ...
( Category: Rome March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-18 | Author:Jordan, Paul [Jordan, Paul]

17. NIGHTMARE DAY ELEVEN Tuesday 3 June I can happily report that my fortress kept the rats out last night despite their visit at around 2.00 this morning. I didn’t ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Joshua Key

6 al-Habbaniyah NEAR THE BEGINNING OF AUGUST 2003, THE 43RD combat Engineer Company left Ramadi and moved about ten miles east to al-Habbaniyah. It was a small, dusty town of ...
( Category: Iraq March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-07-26 | Author:Ken Hechler [Hechler, Ken]

XIII. The Capture of Remagen Late in the forenoon of March 7, a gray, drizzly day, a little group of American soldiers on the Birresdorf road near the abandoned R.A.D. ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Justin Marozzi [Justin Marozzi]

If the Bibi Khanum Mosque was Temur’s most extravagant religious building in Samarkand, the mausolea of Shah-i-Zinda (the Living King) was his holiest. The site itself, which lay beyond the ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )