Military
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-08-31 | Author:Linge, Heinz [Linge, Heinz]

Chapter 12 Resolving the Polish Question: September 1939 DURING THE WAR HITLER was little more than a warlord, strategist and soldier. He isolated himself from ‘the world’ beyond policymaking and ...
( Category: World War II December 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 1975-12-31 | Author:Spike Milligan

June 5th, Friday 1943 “There’s wild pigs, up the mountain,” the information was imparted by one Mahmoud, an Arab who came scrounging fags and whose head was therefore a mass ...
( Category: World War II December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1977-12-31 | Author:Spike Milligan

November 24, 1943 My diary: UP VERY EARLY TO CONTACT OUR GUN POSITION. RECEPTION STRENGTH 9, BUT THE OP STRENGTH 1. WILL TRY AND PUT UP VERY LONG AERIAL. Fildes’ ...
( Category: European December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1984-12-31 | Author:Spike Milligan

- Transcribed newspaper cutting from the Union Jack, 1945 The compère for the contest is Captain Philip Ridgeway, the announcer. He is as informed on Dance Bands as Mrs Thatcher ...
( Category: Great Britain December 8,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-01-22 | Author:Levi, Primo [Levi, Primo]

It was already night. Contrary to what the sergeant had led us to believe, the most sumptuous abundance reigned inside the barracks; there were lighted stoves, candles and acetylene lamps, ...
( Category: Holocaust November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Max Hastings

FOURTEEN Out of the Desert In 1943, to Winston Churchill and to many British, Russian and American people, it sometimes seemed that the Western Allies spent more time talking than ...
( Category: World War II November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:Neryl Joyce [Joyce, Neryl]

At one o’clock we drove over to the commissioners’ workplace. Stu and I walked into the building, with an extra suit of body armour for Number Three. As we strode ...
( Category: Women November 24,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Harold Holzer

Suspected of leaking the president’s 1861 annual message to the Herald: Mary Lincoln (left) and her friend “Chevalier” Henry Wikoff (right). But Lincoln surely knew who bore the principal guilt ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 24,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Richard Brookhiser [Brookhiser, Richard]

Eleven THE ELECTION OF 1860. THE TOWERING GENIUS (II) THE COOPER UNION ADDRESS KICKED OFF LINCOLN’S RUN for the White House; the next fourteen months were consumed with presidential politics ...
( Category: American Civil War November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-23 | Author:Jacky Hyams [Jacky Hyams]

CHAPTER 6 LAURA’S STORY: AN ANGEL AND A ROSE ‘WE WERE TINY COGS IN A SECRET ARMY’ Laura Hardwick was born in Trimdon, County Durham, in 1921. She has the ...
( Category: World War II November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Harold Holzer

But Lincoln surely knew who bore the principal guilt for the scandal. When, late in September, the persistent “Chevalier” brazenly petitioned the president for a pass to accompany a naval ...
( Category: American Civil War November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:James M. McPherson

5. WE SHOULD TAKE THE INITIATIVE As commander in chief, Davis spent most of his time and energy on questions of strategy and command. But armies must be armed, fed, ...
( Category: American Civil War November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Dilip Joseph M.D. [Joseph M.D., Dilip]

CHAPTER ELEVEN A PRECARIOUS PEACE 6:00 A.M., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 THE DIM LIGHT OF DAWN HAD JUST BEGUN TO STEAL THROUGH the cracks in the two ventilation openings and doorway ...
( Category: Afghan War November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Licence, Amy [Licence, Amy]

9 Richard’s Wife 1472–1483 With love founded on profit, pleasure and honesty then shall true friendship reign among you.1 For the next decade, the rule of Edward IV went unchallenged. ...
( Category: England November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Jack Kelly [Kelly, Jack]

Thirteen The Discipline of the Leggs 1778 “You might have tracked the army from White Marsh to Valley Forge by the blood of their feet,” George Washington wrote.1 A private ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 19,2014 )