Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Luis Carlos Montalvan & Bret Witter

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: Breeds March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Kim Philby

VIII. THE VOLKOV CASE I now come to the Volkov case, which I propose to describe in some detail, both because of its intrinsic interest and because it nearly put ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:William T. Sherman

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, April 24, 1864. Lieutenant-General GRANT, commanding Armies of the United States, Culpepper, Virginia. GENERAL: I now have, at the hands of Colonel ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-06 | Author:Andrew Roberts

When the two sides resumed their meeting at 3 p.m., the Combined Chiefs of Staff had before them a draft note setting out tentative agreements. A deal had been brokered ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-18 | Author:Michael Anthony

“HEY. If you want to hear the story, pay attention.” I hear Denti say, taking me out of my daze. “Oh shit, Anthony, you never listen — the point is ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-16 | Author:Hugh Mills

After that action, it took several days for the troop to get back to normal. We had wounds to lick. The ARPs needed replacements. I needed four new ships in ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-03 | Author:Jack McLean

At half past midnight on Wednesday morning, January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched the Tet Offensive at Nha Trang. Nearly seventy thousand North Vietnamese troops participated in this broad ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-12-01 | Author:Jon Krakauer

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE In the predawn hours of March 23, 2003, as Jessica Lynch’s convoy rolled across the Euphrates River and entered An Nasiriyah, Pat Tillman was asleep on his cot ...
( Category: Afghan War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Marlantes, Karl [Marlantes, Karl]

7 LOYALTY Warriors have always had to deal with loyalty. Concepts of loyalty change, however, and warriors have to cope with that as well. Through much of history loyalty pretty ...
( Category: Strategy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Patrick Hennessey

The daily Baghdad SITREP cheerfully reported one morning that some 1,855 bodies have been delivered to the city morgues in July—a nice record high, up 300 on last month. The ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Mark Ryan

On New Year’s Day, Emmy Valentin called into Sneum’s flat. She pulled out a napkin containing some crude sketches and explained that she had persuaded her Abwehr officer, after several ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:David Cloud; Greg Jaffe

CHAPTER NINE All Glory Is Fleeting Al Faw Palace, Camp Victory July 1, 2004 Okay, who’s my counterinsurgency expert?” asked General George Casey, sounding impatient. It was his first day ...
( Category: Iraq March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2009-08-20 | Author:Matt Eversmann; Dan Schilling

Dan Schilling getting his “Ranger” haircut the day before Task Force Ranger deployed. Note non-regulation mustache. TIM WILKINSON Raleigh Cash ’93 RALEIGH CASH Tim Wilkinson in front of his helo ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

ISHII KNEW HE was in deep trouble. No one, not even the emperor, could save him or even think of lifting a finger. He was on his own, the target ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2000-05-02 | Author:James Bradley & Ron Powers

Nine D-DAY PLUS TWO Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem. —RONALD REAGAN A STORM LASHED IN FROM THE OCEAN; ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )