Biographies & Memoirs
mobi |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Benjamin Busch

My wife and I flew to London in 2001 for a New Year’s vacation. We went down onto the shore of the Thames River where I was told not to ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-16 | Author:Michael Wallis

Fellow Citizens of the Ninth Congressional District— I now avail myself of the privilege common to every freeman, of offering myself as a candidate for a seat in the next ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Robert Mason

There was a Christmas truce, but we flew anyway, taking patrols out to check on reported VC violations in our territory. I couldn’t get over how bizarre it was. We ...
( Category: Southeast Asia March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-11-01 | Author:Robert Coram

Chapter Seventeen The Fighter Mafia Does the Lord’s Work BOYD’S retirement date was drawing closer when, in May 1969, he received an extraordinary ER. His boss, Colonel Robert Titus, fire ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1984-07-04 | Author:Hans-Ulrich Rudel

Ju. 52 He has been informed that his colleague who has been given up for dead will shortly arrive in his birthday suit. I climb into a Ju. 52, and ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Mike Mullane; R. Mike Mullane

Chapter 22 Coming to America The next morning we prepared for reentry. We scrubbedDiscovery ’s walls and windows clean. An earlier crew had turned over a dirty vehicle to their ...
( Category: Science & Math March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1980-07-15 | Author:William Manchester

Of course I was pissed off. Zepp had been inexcusably insubordinate. I had ordered him to avoid high ground and especially to stay away from Easy Company. Forgiveness is very ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2006-02-07 | Author:Cole C. Kingseed

10 Surrounded Again Ask any veteran of the campaign in northwest Europe to identify his toughest single engagement, and you might expect him to say D-Day or some other day ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-21 | Author:Timofeeva-Egorova, Anna [Timofeeva-Egorova, Anna]

Here we were in Tashkent. We called in at the oriental bazaar, buying there the famous dried apricots that were allegedly a cure for all possible diseases. But the main ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Sean Parnell & John R. Bruning & John Bruning

Fourteen Blood Brothers Chris Brown’s pistol cracked. Campbell’s rifle bucked. Wheat double-tapped another insurgent. Pilon’s SAW chattered. Sabatke ducked into his Humvee and snatched a pair of M18 Claymore mines. ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-18 | Author:Carney, John T. Col; Schemmer, Benjamin F. [Carney, John T. Col; Schemmer, Benjamin F.]

CHAPTER TEN Grenada in a Rearview Mirror and “Shoot-out” in a Nuclear Power Plant Looking back, it’s easy to spot many things we did wrong on Grenada—and very few that ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer

It was 2007 and I was on my sixth deployment. This time, I was working with the CIA at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost Province. Khost Province was one ...
( Category: Afghan War March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:R. V. Burgin; Bill Marvel

Headquarters had sent our regiment north along the west road because there was a change in strategy. Instead of tackling the Umurbrogols head-on, they had decided to move around behind ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:West, Bing & Meyer, Dakota [West, Bing]

Chapter 11 INTO THE FIRE It was standard procedure for the dushmen to place sacks of ammonium nitrate in shallow holes, insert a blasting cap, and run a wire to ...
( Category: Afghan War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1970-10-23 | Author:Keith Nolan

As an infantry outfit, C/1-5 Mech had few racial problems; so, as their standdown began on 15 May 1970, the appearance of five black troopers from the 125th Signal Battalion, ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 25,2014 )