World War I
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Bostridge

By early 1931, after nursing the new baby for six months, Vera was writing Testament of Youth almost every day, in addition to contributing a regular column to the periodical, ...
( Category: World War I March 14,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-01-26 | Author:Anthony Sattin [Sattin, Anthony]

* Thompson stayed in Surrey for the next two years, excavated in Egypt in 1913 and fought in Mesopotamia in World War I. † Woolley’s reputation today rests on his ...
( Category: World War I March 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-12 | Author:Lawrence, T. E. [Lawrence, T.E.]

CHAPTER LX VESSELS steamed up the Gulf of Akaba. Feisal landed, and with him Jaafar, his staff, and Joyce, the fairy godmother. There came the armoured cars, Goslett, Egyptian labourers ...
( Category: World War I January 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-16 | Author:W. Douglas Fisher

Dr. George I. Lythcott (courtesy Michael J. Lythcott). The Lythcott brothers arrived after the riots, but the city’s stigma was there. Many other professional African Americans had left Tulsa by ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Peter F Batchelor

Battle of Festubert After sixty hours – the longest artillery bombardment of the war to date – the battalion, having moved up to its assembly positions during the night, prepared ...
( Category: Veterans December 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:Gerald Gliddon

On 8 August Coury was made a full lieutenant, but he had decided to transfer to the RFC and on 28 August joined No. 13 Squadron at Savy Aubigny, north-west ...
( Category: General December 17,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-11-10 | Author:Winston Groom [Groom, Winston]

ON FEBRUARY 21, 1938, Jean MacArthur presented her husband with a seven pound, eight ounce boy who was christened Arthur MacArthur IV. He was tended to by Jean and a ...
( Category: World War I December 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:Lars Gyllenhaal & Lennart Westberg [Gyllenhaal, Lars]

( Category: World War I October 9,2015 )
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 )
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 | 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 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-06 | Author:Vera Brittain

10 Victor’s long letter had been written on March 24th from a sector near Arras. To-day, as I re-read his realistic phrases, they seem to me to be less infused ...
( Category: World War I May 24,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-05-04 | Author:Erwin Rommel

Sketch 29 Preparations for the attack of August 11, 1917. View from the west. Soon the bushes in front of us began to thin out and we advanced another hundred ...
( Category: World War I March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Christopher Burgess

65 Squadron. 30th December 1917 Thanks for yesterday’s letter, today’s hasn’t arrived yet. I hope you get all mine eventually. We were to go on patrol this morning from 9 ...
( Category: World War I January 29,2015 )