Military
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-07-30 | Author:Nick Thomas

Sergeant R.C. Bolland No.185 Squadron Pilot Officer L. Cheek No.185 Squadron Group Captain Walter M. Churchill, DSO, DFC (flight leader) (Deputy AOC) Sergeant F.W. Clewley, RAAF No. 185 Squadron Sergeant ...
( Category: World War II September 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-05 | Author:Mulley. Clare [Mulley. Clare]

12: SWITCHING ALLEGIANCES For Christine, scrambling down the goat tracks that led away from the Vercors battleground towards the relative safety of Francis’s temporary base at Seyne-les-Alpes felt like a ...
( Category: World War II September 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Arthur G. Sharp [Sharp, Arthur G.]

( Category: American Revolution August 31,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:Michael Harris

THE GREATEST WEATHER-FORECASTING SYSTEM IN HISTORY MANY DAYS AFTER Cherokee, we were all assembled for an important announcement from Major Maxwell. We knew before he started that it would have ...
( Category: Military August 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Hindley, Geoffrey [Hindley, Geoffrey]

A dramatic monument to Saladin was erected in Damascus in the twentieth century. Non-Muslims often suppose that there is a Koranic injunction against the depiction of the human form and ...
( Category: Military August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:Cecil Lewis [Lewis, Cecil]

* In 1917 co-operative tactics in single-seater fighting were rudimentary. A combat was a personal matter. In a fight no pilot has time to watch others; he is too occupied ...
( Category: World War I August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 1996-08-22 | Author:DAVID KAHN

18 * ALTHOUGH SECRET WRITING appears in Russia in the simple letter-substitutions of 12th- and 13th-century manuscripts, akin to those of medieval France and Germany, political cryptography seems to have ...
( Category: World War I August 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Kevin Sites [Sites, Kevin]

While his observations, like this one, are loaded with pessimism and despair, they are at the very least, according to mental health experts, an effort at sharing the burden of ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars August 20,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Debi Unger

CHAPTER 9 JAPAN-CHINA The three months between the two “V-Days” were fraught with challenges for Marshall. But foremost, of course, was how to defeat Japan. By mid-1945 the end was ...
( Category: World War II August 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 1957-01-01 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

Siegfried had not yet been in the trenches. I told him, in my old-soldier manner, that he would soon change his style. That night, the whole battalion went up to ...
( Category: World War I August 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-30 | Author:Pfarrer, Chuck [Pfarrer, Chuck]

* * * LOSING THE BUBBLE IN WAR, BIGGER IS BETTER, and the battleship New Jersey was both. By the end of September she had completed a transatlantic voyage and ...
( Category: Medical August 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:James Robert Copeland [Copeland, James Robert]

More Training in Europe Chapter Five D-Day and Bloody Omaha Beach The evening of June 5, 1944 was like all others except with a tinge of nervous tension filling the ...
( Category: World War II August 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:Frank Gallagher,John M. Del Vecchio

February 2004 As the time approached for the assembled American and Iraqi diplomats to write a constitution for the new Iraq, a thousand different forces pulled Ambassador Bremer in a ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars August 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Christopher Hitchens [Hitchens, Christopher]

This admonition to Short greatly overstated George Washington’s partisanship for France, but it did not overstate—or not by much—the general American feeling that the Jacobins were making European history, and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:David S. Heidler & Jeanne T. Heidler [Heidler, David S. & Heidler, Jeanne T.]

Newspaper and pamphlet attacks had stepped up over the summer of 1792. Because Hamilton and Jefferson believed the other responsible for starting the public phase of the conflict, each thought ...
( Category: American Revolution July 28,2015 )