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Lord of All the Dead by Javier Cercas
epub |eng | 2020-01-14 | Author:Javier Cercas [Cercas, Javier]

9 At the beginning of 2015, exactly a year after I’d learned of the Shearer’s death from my mother, and two or three since I’d started collecting information about Manuel ...
( Category: World War II July 5,2020 )
Hap Arnold: The General Who Invented the US Air Force by Bill Yenne
epub |eng | 2013-10-13 | Author:Bill Yenne [Yenne, Bill]

Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Combined Chiefs of Staff departed from Cairo on November 27 for their meeting with Stalin in Tehran. Iran had been picked as a conference site because ...
( Category: Military July 5,2020 )
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq by John Crawford
epub |eng | 2006-04-03 | Author:John Crawford [Crawford, John]

SEVEN SHARKS IN THE TIGRIS SPECIALIST GLEASON yawned loudly, sucking in much of the cool night air. He stretched his arms out above his head and we all heard the ...
( Category: Iraq War July 4,2020 )
Given Up for Dead by Bill Sloan
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Bill Sloan

Sublieutenant Shigeyoshi Ozeki, a Japanese medical officer who landed with invading Japanese troops on December 23, 1941, was later credited with helping save the lives of wounded Americans following the ...
( Category: World War II July 4,2020 )
A Stranger in My Own Country: The 1944 Prison Diary by Hans Fallada
epub |eng | 2015-07-24 | Author:Hans Fallada [Fallada, Hans]

Notes 1. Incorrectly dated: the Reichstag burned down on 27 February 1933. Fallada had to rely entirely on memory when writing these reminiscences, so there are occasional errors and misdatings. ...
( Category: World War II July 4,2020 )
Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle With PTSD by Romeo Dallaire
epub |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Romeo Dallaire [Dallaire, Romeo]

*1 In October 1970, in response to the kidnapping of British trade commissioner James Cross and provincial cabinet minister Pierre Laporte by the Front de libération du Québec, Prime Minister ...
( Category: Pathologies July 4,2020 )
World War 2 - The Call of Duty: A Complete Timeline by Dale Liam
epub |eng | 2019-12-12 | Author:Dale, Liam [Dale, Liam]

Throughout August, US aircraft and their crews would continue to arrive at Guadalcanal to beat back the enemy, and air battles between the Allied aircraft at Henderson airfield and Japanese ...
( Category: World War II July 4,2020 )
I Escaped from Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba
epub |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Rudolf Vrba

CHAPTER 12 “Gassing People is Not Easy” NOBODY WHO SURVIVED CAMP A IN BIRKENAU WILL EVER forget September 7, 1943, for it was unlike any other day we had ever ...
( Category: World War II July 4,2020 )
Happiness Is Not My Companion by David M. Jordan
epub |eng | 2019-03-04 | Author:David M. Jordan

( Category: American Civil War July 4,2020 )
Frederick the Great: A Military History by Dennis Showalter
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Dennis Showalter [Showalter, Dennis]

The King had not exactly left the composition of this force to chance. The 26th Infantry was one of the army’s best. Recruited from Pomerania, its ranks included a large ...
( Category: World War II July 4,2020 )
Lucie Aubrac: The French Resistance Heroine Who Outwitted the Gestapo by Siân Rees
epub |eng | 2016-05-31 | Author:Siân Rees [Rees, Siân]

Then there was a handshake, Max told Lucie he looked forward to meeting her again tomorrow at a dinner arranged for after the meeting, and left. ‘There was never a ...
( Category: World War II July 4,2020 )
Whatever It Took by Henry Langrehr
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Henry Langrehr

WHAT WE SHARED Replacements for the men who were killed started coming in a few days after D-Day. “What do we do?” they’d ask. “Follow us,” we’d tell them. “Keep ...
( Category: World War II July 3,2020 )
History of the Cossacks by William Cresson
epub |eng | | Author:William Cresson

THE END OF THE FREE UKRAINE: LITTLE RUSSIA ~ NOT THE LEAST IMPORTANT RESULT of the battle of Poltava was the subjection of the greater part of the Free Ukraine ...
( Category: Military July 3,2020 )
Porter, Steward, Citizen by Christian Royal A.; McDaniels III Pellom;
epub |eng | 2017-07-15 | Author:Christian, Royal A.; McDaniels III, Pellom;

Royal A. Christian’s Consular registration card dated September 23, 1918. As a US citizen living in England, Christian had to provide information related to his occupation, his employer, and the ...
( Category: World War I July 3,2020 )
General Sherman and the Georgia Belles by Cathy J. Kaemmerlen
epub |eng | 2019-03-02 | Author:Cathy J. Kaemmerlen

( Category: American Civil War July 3,2020 )

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