Military
epub |eng | | Author:Donald Macintyre

A vexing problem for the Allied high command was whether their burgeoning Atlantic operations would be more efficiently conducted if made a unified command. While wasteful duplication could obviously be ...
( Category: World War II October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Godfrey Freeman [Freeman, Godfrey]

CHAPTER 7 The First Attempt The tonsillitis grew worse as the day wore on and I dallied with the idea of using it as an excuse to ‘duck out’ of ...
( Category: Veterans October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Martin

10 Punishment Due By the conclusion of his first combat deployment as a U.S. SEAL Sniper Course–trained sniper, Chris Kyle had stacked up enough confirmed kills to solidly establish himself ...
( Category: Military October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick Bishop

NINE Soon the chamber was crowded with bodies as the first batch of escapers clambered in. The margarine lamps gave off an orange light, casting gigantic shadows over the walls. ...
( Category: World War II October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Larry Colton [Colton, Larry]

Exhausted and cold, Chuck sat on the edge of his lower bunk in the barracks, waiting for another day to end. He was also waiting for the nightly poker game ...
( Category: World War II October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:William J. Cooper [Cooper, William J.]

Eastern Theater, July-December 1862. From W. J. Cooper and T. E. Terrill, The American South: A History (2d ed.), with permission of the McGraw-Hill Companies Bragg had worked on organization ...
( Category: American Civil War October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:Lars Gyllenhaal & Lennart Westberg [Gyllenhaal, Lars]

( Category: World War I October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-03 | Author:Reese, Willy Peter [Reese, Willy Peter]

THE GHOST WOOD Sand slowly slipped through the hourglass, and every grain rested in God’s hands. We had no sense of that. We experienced the beginning30 of the New Year ...
( Category: World War II October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Ian F. Beckett

When Rommel returned to the headquarters of the newly renamed Deutsch-Italienische Panzerarmee on the evening of 25 October, he was confronted with a mass of bad news. 15th Panzer Division’s ...
( Category: World War II October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-08 | Author:Tim Milne [Tim Milne]

Notes 1. A classical scholar and Greek papyrologist who later became director of Oxford University Press. He published The Codex in 1954, subsequently expanded into The Birth of the Codex, ...
( Category: Great Britain October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-13 | Author:Frischauer, Willi [Frischauer, Willi]

Chapter XIII WAR London was under a hail of German bombs; I escaped from the falling shrapnel of the barrage into King’s Cross Underground Station, where hundreds of people patiently ...
( Category: World War II October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Peter Dornan

C H A P T E R E L E V E N Operation AVALANCHE The war was not going well for the Italians. On 25 July 1943, the Fascist ...
( Category: World War II September 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Brian Murphy

Leon Crane, right, with his father Louis, who emigrated in 1913 from Ukraine to Philadelphia along with his wife Sonia. Crane had a letter from his father in his parka ...
( Category: World War II September 8,2015 )
epub |ara, eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Brian Murphy

The row house at 5464 Baltimore Avenue in West Philadelphia where Crane spent much of his boyhood with his two brothers and a sister. The neighborhood became a magnet for ...
( Category: World War II September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Captain J.L. Hardy DSO MC

Chapter Ten As we walked through the town towards the station we could think of nothing but the wonderful way fortune had favoured us. We must succeed now, we thought. ...
( Category: World War I September 7,2015 )