Home > Biographies & Memoirs > Leaders & Notable People > Military
Military
A Schoolmaster's War by Jonathan Ree
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Ree

We had another six-hour train journey the next day. We were in the dining car when the Germans came in and examined our identity cards, but the officer who took ...
( Category: World War II April 6,2020 )
Rails of War by Steven James Hantzis
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Steven James Hantzis [Hantzis, Steven James]

The driving was relatively smooth for the next week. The convoy was in Chinese-controlled territory now, and the road was well maintained. The lush green countryside of Burma gave way ...
( Category: World War II April 6,2020 )
Secret Alliances by Tony Insall
epub |eng | 2019-02-15 | Author:Tony Insall [Insall, Tony]

Telavåg As highlighted in Chapter 3, the incident at Telavåg led to one of the worst atrocities committed in Norway during the war. In April 1942, when the Borghild landed ...
( Category: World War II April 5,2020 )
Libyan Twilight by Raphael Luzon
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Raphael Luzon [Luzon, Raphael]

Chapter Sixteen When I filled in the documents needed for my emigration to Israel, my heart was filled with emotion and my hands were trembling while signing the papers. I ...
( Category: Political April 4,2020 )
Napoleon by Emil Ludwig
mobi |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Emil Ludwig

(From the " Corpus Imaginum " of the Photographic Society, Charlottenburg.) Napoleon as Emperor. Painting by Vigneux. Count Primoli Collection. BOOK FOUR THE SEA It is essential that this man ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers April 4,2020 )
The Old Navy by Daniel P Mannix
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Daniel P Mannix

We left the natives and continued along the trail until we arrived at the place where Captain Swain said the Negrito village was reported to be, but never a sign ...
( Category: Military April 4,2020 )
04 Battle Ready by Tom Clancy
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tom Clancy [Clancy, Tom]

ZINNI’S INVOLVEMENT in “Operations Other Than War”—like Provide Comfort, Provide Hope, Provide Promise, and others while at EUCOM—provided a wealth of experience that he later drew on constantly. These were ...
( Category: Military April 4,2020 )
Our People by Rūta Vanagaitė & Efraim Zuroff
epub |eng | 2019-12-31 | Author:Rūta Vanagaitė & Efraim Zuroff

The poet was writing about the Lithuanian partisans fighting the Soviets after the war, not about murdered Jews. It was probably just a coincidence that he mentioned Einstein, a Jew. ...
( Category: World War II April 2,2020 )
I Want You to Know We're Still Here by Esther Safran Foer
epub |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Esther Safran Foer [Foer, Esther Safran]

* * * — The details of mass murder of the Jews in Chetvertnia has been well documented by Yahad-In Unum, an organization founded in 2004 and led by Father ...
( Category: World War II April 2,2020 )
Sir John Moore by Macdonald Janet;
epub |eng | 2016-10-14 | Author:Macdonald, Janet;

The 8th Duke of Hamilton (centre) with Dr Moore (left) and the young John Moore (right). Sir John Moore by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Monument to Sir John Moore in Glasgow. ...
( Category: Military April 1,2020 )
Wellington's History of the Peninsular War by Stuart Reid
epub |eng | 2019-07-30 | Author:Stuart Reid

1 serjeant, 2 drummers and 263 R. and F. have been returned missing by the several corps of the army, British and Portuguese. It is supposed that the greater number ...
( Category: Military April 1,2020 )
Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction by Allen C. Guelzo
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-02-05 | Author:Allen C. Guelzo [Guelzo, Allen C.]

Chapter 5 Debate The failure of popular sovereignty Contrary to the promises Stephen Douglas made for the popular sovereignty doctrine, almost nothing about popular sovereignty went right after the Kansas-Nebraska ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 30,2020 )
The Devil's Doctor: Felix Kersten and the Secret Plot to Turn Himmler Against Hitler by John H. Waller
epub |eng | 2015-09-27 | Author:John H. Waller

I explained to him [Ramsay] that the German military situation was hopeless and that Germany could hold on at the most another one or two more years. In my opinion ...
( Category: World War II March 28,2020 )
Warlord by Carlo D'Este
epub |eng | 2008-03-14 | Author:Carlo D'Este

The last British soldier at Dunkirk the morning of June 3, 1940, was an aristocratic, unflappable Guards officer in charge of the British rear guard. Major General Harold Alexander, best ...
( Category: World War I March 28,2020 )
The Scandalous Lives of Carolina Belles Marie Boozer and Amelia Feaster by Tom Elmore
epub |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Tom Elmore

( Category: American Civil War March 28,2020 )

First Prev [32] [33] [34] [35] 36 [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] Next Last