Military
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Sean Parnell

Fourteen Blood Brothers Chris Brown’s pistol cracked. Campbell’s rifle bucked. Wheat double-tapped another insurgent. Pilon’s SAW chattered. Sabatke ducked into his Humvee and snatched a pair of M18 Claymore mines. ...
( Category: Afghan War November 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Mark S. Smith [Smith, Mark S.]

The escapees’ chances of success that day were impeded by the Küttner incident, which triggered the premature start of the uprising. This provided the SS with more daylight to hunt ...
( Category: Holocaust November 19,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Kitchen

CHAPTER ELEVEN DEFEAT SPEER INSPECTED THE Western Front from 26 September to 1 October 1944.1 He travelled with his adjutant, Manfred von Poser, Willy Liebel and his assistant, SS-Standartenführer Karl ...
( Category: Germany November 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-11 | Author:Mark Time [Mark Time]

EIGHT ‘My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.’ ABRAHAM LINCOLN, SIXTEENTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BEFORE PROGRESSING ...
( Category: Military November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-15 | Author:Bohdan Hryniewicz

14 Evacuation to the Centre, 24–29 August 1944 24 August. I was with what remained of our battalion in the Spiess building behind the town hall. It was a large ...
( Category: World War II November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Tom Mangold [Mangold, Tom]

Let’s grow manioc plant all over the bomb craters and make them green. We kill the Americans with their own shells and bombs. We kill the enemy and increase our ...
( Category: Vietnam War November 5,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Moggridge, Jackie [Moggridge, Jackie]

29 ‘Now what?’ asked Reg suspiciously some months later as I opened a large O.H.M.S. envelope. ‘I was thinking of joining the air force,’ I replied, meekly. ‘Oh. Is that ...
( Category: Aviation November 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-10-31 | Author:Ferling, John

10 “The Boisterous Sea of Liberty” The Campaign of 1800 CAMPAIGNING IN 1796 had not begun until Washington announced his intention to retire, about a hundred days before election day. ...
( Category: Elections November 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Stephen McGinty

While explaining that such rumour and speculation was only circulating by private conversation, Campbell explained that there was an ‘undefinable’ but widely held feeling of apprehension and uncertainty that was ...
( Category: Great Britain October 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-10-25 | Author:Douglas Waller

Chapter 25 The Plot DONOVAN WAS FINISHING dinner in his Georgetown home the night of July 20 with Lieutenant Colonel Hsiao Po and his wife when a servant whispered into ...
( Category: World War II October 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Gersdorff, Rudolf-Christoph von [Gersdorff, Rudolf-Christoph von]

Dr. Gerhard Buhtz and an assistant (in smock) present the corpse of a murdered Polish officer to visitors investigating the Katyn Massacre. The Propaganda Ministry had directed that the discovery ...
( Category: World War II October 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Jorgensen-Earp, Cheryl R. [Jorgensen-Earp, Cheryl R.]

( Category: Great Britain October 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Norman Franks

The operation was another Circus – Circus No.4 – six Blenheims attacking the docks at Dunkirk. The attackers were 109s from IV/JG51 and I/LG2, which bounced 249, shooting down one ...
( Category: Great Britain October 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Dickey, Christopher

Chapter 27 EARLY ON CHRISTMAS EVE AFTERNOON, Robert Bunch received an unexpected visitor. A Mr. Thomas Butler Gunn from the New-York Evening Post was arriving too late for the Secession ...
( Category: Civil War October 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Andrew Roberts [Andrew Roberts]

Once Junot had occupied Lisbon he formally deposed the absent Braganza dynasty and confiscated their property, imposed a ‘contribution’ of 100 million francs and promulgated a constitution which included religious ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )