Military
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-29 | Author:Fixler, Barry [Fixler, Barry]

* * * Long after the siege, when my ears had quit ringing, I still thought sometimes that I could smell the gas. Anyone who ever has been gassed will ...
( Category: Vietnam War May 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-13 | Author:Thomas E. Crocker

CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Flying Column THE CANDLES FLICKERED IN THE THICK night heat of the general’s tent at Little Meadows. So did tempers, fueled by wine at His Excellency’s dinner ...
( Category: United States May 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen W. Sears

Fredericksburg splintered the political as well as the military landscape. Even as the Committee on the Conduct of the War was taking the generals’ testimony at Falmouth, Senate Republicans of ...
( Category: American Civil War April 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-23 | Author:Ernie Pyle [Pyle, Ernie]

Anzio and Nettuno run together along the coast, forming practically one city. There is really only one main street, which runs along the low blocks just back of the first ...
( Category: World War II April 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:John R. Kelso

7. A Defeat and a Victory May to July 1862 After our return from Linn Creek, we again remained in camp training. We were then ordered to Neosho, a large ...
( Category: American Civil War April 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anne-Marie Ryan

Seán Heuston John Joseph Heuston (known as Seán) was born in Dublin on 21 February 1891. His family lived at 24 Gloucester Street and later moved to Jervis Street. Both ...
( Category: Irish April 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Mansfield, Stephen [Mansfield, Stephen]

Lincoln’s first full day in the nation’s capital was a Sunday—February 24—and he already had an invitation to church. Senator William Seward, newly named as secretary of state, had invited ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 5,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-23 | Author:Dalin, David G. & Rothmann, John F. [Dalin, David G.]

Chapter 6 Mandate for Hate: Haj Amin al-Husseini and the Islamization of Anti-Semitism “I am a Jew.” These were the last words that Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Richard Tregaskis

SEPTEMBER 18 This afternoon, I heard at 5th Army Headquarters that Col. Tucker and his men had regained their position on the heights commanding Altavilla; that the fall of the ...
( Category: World War II March 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-29 | Author:Thomas, Gordon; Lewis, Greg

After a five-day voyage across the Atlantic, the OSS women disembarked at Southampton in their Women’s Army Corps uniforms and had the first sight of bomb damage as they were ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage March 30,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-11-29 | Author:Katherine V. Dillon & Donald M. Goldstein & Gordon W. Prange [Dillon, Katherine V.]

21 “More Trouble Is Coming!” THE DAY FOLLOWING the emperor’s broadcast, Ozawa and Fuchida closed Combined Fleet headquarters at Hiyoshi and removed it to the Meguro War College in Tokyo. ...
( Category: World War II March 27,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Frederick Douglass

“THE TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF SELF-MADE MEN” (1860) Douglass’s self-made men speeches were immensely popular from 1860 until his death in 1895. Over time he altered the speech as he ...
( Category: American Civil War March 23,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:John Nixon

8. Death to Shiites and Zionists ---------- During the second week of our debriefing we began to discuss regional politics, and although Saddam tried to take the high road and ...
( Category: History & Theory March 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-06 | Author:Smith, Jamie [Smith, Jamie]

TRADECRAFT In the clandestine service at the CIA, there are two broad worlds—that of the case officer and that of the paramilitary (PM) officer. The former gets heavy training in ...
( Category: Military March 22,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Helen Thorpe

As long as she remained in Afghanistan, she could sustain this state of irresolution, where she never had to confront the truth of what she was doing. She could see ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 22,2017 )