Military
epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:David Buttery [Buttery, David]

Map 5: Battle of Roliça, 17 August 1808 The French levelled an accurate and telling fire on the allies as they advanced, to which they had little chance to respond ...
( Category: Military February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alastair MacKenzie

Counterterrorism Role One of the main attractions of the SAS for me was the diversity of tasks that we carried out. When we came back from Northern Ireland, I took ...
( Category: Vietnam War February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lt Colonel Dan Rooney

20. Forgiveness Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. —Luke 6:37 THE DAY ...
( Category: Piloting & Flight Instruction February 26,2020 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:Erik Larson

CHAPTER 58 Our Special Source ENGLAND’S WEATHER DEGRADED. GALES RAKED the landscape and roiled the surrounding seas, making an amphibious landing by German forces seem less and less likely. Fragments ...
( Category: World War II February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Frank Boccia

22 Rescued by the Gnome YD 365065; 28 April 1969 Late that afternoon we received word that Atcheson’s platoon—Alpha Three Six—was on the final slope leading to our location, and ...
( Category: Vietnam War February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Fung, Eddie; Yung, Judy

Once we got underway and we could feel some air, it was a blessing. We didn’t care where we were going as long as we were moving. The rest of ...
( Category: Asian American Studies February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:James S. Robbins

LAURENCE SIMMONS BAKER WRITING LONG AFTER THE EVENTS at Gettysburg, Henry Heth echoed what was by then a common critique of the battle: “The failure to crush the Federal army ...
( Category: American Civil War February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Kauffman Bush [Bush, Elizabeth K.]

Draper Kauffman, about eighteen months, with his mother, Elizabeth Kelsey Draper Kauffman. Author’s collection. Draper, age thirteen, with the author, age two. A Brazilian naval officer, seeing the picture on ...
( Category: World War II February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kai Bird

Michael Forrestal later recalled a conversation he had with Kennedy which, if true, suggests that the president was indeed struggling in his own thinking toward a neutralist-withdrawal solution for Vietnam. ...
( Category: Leadership February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Craig, Mary W.

Madame de Fleurian also gave an account of additional knowledge of Mata Hari: My doctor, Dr Boulommier, was the first to alert me that a very beautiful woman was staying ...
( Category: World War I February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Peter Baxter

Selous Scout mortar teams stand by in Gaza Province, Mozambique. John Murphy rests up during an external raid. An air force resupply C-47 Dakota comes in to land at Mapai. ...
( Category: American Civil War February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Harry Yeide

ELEVEN Lorraine: Patton Faces Germany’s Best PATTON FINALLY HAD some gas again. On 4 September, Third Army received 240, 265 gallons, and 1,396,710 gallons arrived over the next three days. ...
( Category: World War II February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-17 | Author:Shaker Jeffrey

LONG DESTINATIONLESS RECONNAISSANCE drives around the province in my dirt-covered white car revealed little more than business as usual. At checkpoints, I watched as officers in loose fatigues strutted down ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-23 | Author:Joseph Arthur Simon

9 THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT, 1920–1929 In developing the mission of amphibious assault, Lejeune reshaped the Advanced Base Force into the Marine Expeditionary Force. This force became the Fleet ...
( Category: World War I February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-23 | Author:Carter, Daniel [Carter, Daniel]

Polo grounds and baseball diamond near the Rothschild Estate. Our demolition area was at the far-left end. We stockpiled unexploded ordnance in the firing pit at the edge of the ...
( Category: World War II February 23,2020 )