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Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley & Ron Powers
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 )
Dust to Dust: A Memoir by Benjamin Busch
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 )
David Crockett: The Lion of the West by Michael Wallis
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 )
Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
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 )
Boyd by Robert Coram
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 )
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
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 )
Beyond Band of Brothers by Cole C. Kingseed
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 )
Over Fields of Fire: Flying the Sturmovik in Action on the Eastern Front 1942-45 (Soviet Memories of War) by Timofeeva-Egorova Anna
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 )
No Room for Error by Carney John T. Col; Schemmer Benjamin F
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 )
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer
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 )
Islands of the Damned by R. V. Burgin; Bill Marvel
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 )
Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War by West Bing & Meyer Dakota
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 )
Into Cambodia by Keith Nolan
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 )
Guns Up! by Johnnie M. Clark
mobi |eng | 1984-01-02 | Author:Johnnie M. Clark

MERCY KILLING? The lieutenant put Chan and me back together. I was thankful for that, almost as thankful as Rodgers was to get away from the gun. “Saddle up!” The ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 25,2014 )
The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL by Eric Greitens
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:Eric Greitens

The men at BUD/S wanted to be SEALs for a wide variety of reasons. Some were inspired by relatives, some were inspired by movies, some had played "special operations" video ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage March 25,2014 )

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