epub |eng | 2023-05-28 | Author:Winton, John

HRH THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH In July 1939, the Royal Yacht visited the Dart, and the King, the Queen, the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, visited the Royal Naval College, ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-05-02 | Author:Bob Carruthers [Carruthers, Bob]

Orderly Sergeant Max Amann (left) pictured at La Bassée station in March 1917. A German position at Fromelles, pre-1915. Trenches such as these were frequently knee-deep in water. The conditions ...

epub |eng | | Author:French, John; Dyer, Anthony;

CHAPTER TEN Operations in 1944 As February 1944 came towards its end, the crew and I were detailed to escort Russian convoy JW 57, to be met far away, north ...

epub |eng | 2023-02-26 | Author:George Topîrceanu

*** Meanwhile, lost in the middle of these unknown lands, hunted like animals, tired and hungry, the six fugitives were hiding during the day among cliffs, under river banks, in ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-31 | Author:Guy Chapman [Chapman, Guy]

PART TWO THE GROGNARDS ‘We are but soldiers for the working day.’ HENRY V XIII CHORUS OF RUSTICS.‘What will Master Jack say? But here comes Master Jack!’ (BAND AD LIB.—see ...

epub |eng | 2018-10-30 | Author:Quentin Falk [Falk, Quentin]

Among many letters of congratulation to Samson was one from Thomas Drewry who wrote: ‘My son has often told me how gallantly you behaved.’ While it is likely that George’s ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-27 | Author:Mawyer, Gary [Mawyer, Gary]

The St. Mihiel Salient There was still a huge entrenched bulge in the Western Front—the St. Mihiel Salient east of Verdun. Fighting in the salient in 1915 and 1917 had ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Carrie A Meyer

HAHN REFLECTS ON SOLDIERS AND LIFE AT THE FRONT When Requartte Hahn wrote to his father at about the same time, he told several interesting stories that illustrated curiosities he ...

epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Sean Rayment

* * * By April 1945, as the war was drawing to a close, John and S Patrol found themselves approaching the small town of Vigonovo, which is situated directly ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-10 | Author:John Sadler

It was now daylight. Heavy black clouds clustered in the sky, while a driving drizzle was quickly turning the boggy earth into a series of large lakes of water, through ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Sean Rayment

†One of the ‘originals’ of the SAS, who first served in L Detachment in1941. ‡ A covert British unit of German-speaking Jews from Palestine. § The second lowest point ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Name, Author]

At Lone Pine, the very earth stank of death. Viv spent the day of August 7 in the oppressively hot Lone Pine trenches, ignoring the piles of bloating bodies around ...

epub |eng | 1974-01-15 | Author:Peter Dickens

7a. Vorpostenboot, a converted steam drifter. (Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte) 7b. Vorpostenboot 1314, ex-German steam trawler Gustav Hugo Deiters, 1942. ‘M’ Class Fleet Minesweeper in background. (Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte) 8 A ...

pdf | | 2013-11-19 | Author:Final Front (USA)

epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Gwilym Davies [Davies, Gwilym]

Captain G. H. Davies. Officers of the 133rd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 1944. My father (circled) can be seen standing second from the left on the back row. Mondrainville, July ...