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Wellington's Wars by Davies Huw J
epub |eng | | Author:Davies, Huw J.

Meanwhile, the British cavalry regiments of Arentschildt and D'Urban swept around the British right to neutralise the threat posed by Curto's light cavalry. Having suffered a devastating blow, and now ...
( Category: Military March 6,2020 )
LeMay by Warren Kozak
epub |eng | 2010-06-10 | Author:Warren Kozak

The semblance of shyness that McKelway thought he saw ceased to exist when it came to command. LeMay took over the Twenty-first like a force of nature hitting the tiny ...
( Category: World War II March 6,2020 )
Admiral John S. McCain and the Triumph of Naval Air Power by William F. Trimble
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:William F. Trimble

McCain’s three carrier groups came together as scheduled early on the morning of the third. Refueling and transfer of aircraft from Jasper Acuff’s TG-30.8 oilers and escort carriers went smoothly ...
( Category: Military March 6,2020 )
The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson by Jefferson Thomas;
epub |eng | 2016-03-04 | Author:Jefferson, Thomas;

Mr. Adams accordingly executed 1000 bonds, for 1000 florins each, and deposited them in the hands of our bankers, with instructions, however, not to issue them until Congress should ratify ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 5,2020 )
Berlin Candy Bomber by Gail Halvorsen
epub |eng | 2017-01-06 | Author:Gail Halvorsen [Неизв.]

Some New York children receiving instructions on how it is done, September 1948. On the next flight the weather forecast for Tempelhof was for worse-than-usual conditions. “Don’t be surprised if ...
( Category: World War II March 5,2020 )
General of the Army by Ed Cray
epub |eng | 1990-03-04 | Author:Ed Cray

CHAPTER XXV Losses The soldier who boarded the C-54 transport at the Cairo airport on Wednesday, December 8, 1943, revealed nothing of his feelings. No word, no facial expression suggested ...
( Category: World War II March 5,2020 )
The Great War in America by Garrett Peck
epub |eng | 2018-10-28 | Author:Garrett Peck

Wilson in Europe The George Washington docked in Brest on December 13, where the docks were crowded with thousands of cheering French, and the city bedecked with red, white, and ...
( Category: American Civil War March 5,2020 )
Stalin's Scribe by Brian Boeck
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Boeck

TWENTY Upon the conclusion of the war, Sholokhov came under intense pressure to deliver the novel he had promised to Stalin. He boasted to journalists in Moscow in September 1945 ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 4,2020 )
The Portable Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln
epub |eng | 1992-02-01 | Author:Abraham Lincoln [Lincoln, Abraham]

Resolved, That in furtherance of these principles we will use such constitutional and lawful means as shall seem best adapted to their accomplishment, and that we will support no man ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 4,2020 )
When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption by Adamczyk Wesley
epub |eng | 2015-07-09 | Author:Adamczyk, Wesley

CHAPTER 17 ABOARD THE KAGANOVICH The sun shone brightly the morning of our departure. The Soviet freighter Kaganovich stood at the dock ready to receive us. In a small brown ...
( Category: World War II March 4,2020 )
Falklands Hero by Jon Cooksey
epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Jon Cooksey [Cooksey, Jon]

The Argentine .50-calibre heavy machine gun which was a thorn in the side of 4 and 5 Platoons of B Company, 3 Para during the attack on Mount Longdon. Protected ...
( Category: World War II March 4,2020 )
The Passing of the Armies by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

CHAPTER VI APPOMATTOX THE darkest hours before the dawn of April 9, 1865, shrouded the Fifth Corps sunk in feverish sleep by the roadside six miles away from Appomattox Station ...
( Category: American Civil War March 4,2020 )
The Life and Times of Pancho Villa by Friedrich Katz
epub |eng | 2013-05-20 | Author:Friedrich Katz

Carrancista and Villista Agrarian Policies Villa’s abstention from matters of ideology and social legislation on a national scale ended in May 1915, when he decreed an agrarian law. It is ...
( Category: American Revolution March 4,2020 )
Infantery Attacks: Infanterie Greift An by Erwin Rommel
epub |eng | 2015-01-09 | Author:Erwin Rommel [Rommel, Erwin]

Preparations for the attack of August 11, 1917. View from the west. My attack order was: "On my signal the forward line (1 platoon of the 3d Company and Grau's ...
( Category: World War II March 4,2020 )
Fighting Through to Kohima by Michael Lowry
epub |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Michael Lowry

We were to learn that Geoffrey Tattershall’s party broke into the Admin Box and became attached to the West Yorkshire Regiment. In the course of the encirclement, Geoffrey was killed ...
( Category: World War II March 4,2020 )

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