Military
epub |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Andrew R. Finlayson

Killer Kane’s “Monkey Men”—from front to back, Donald Connor, J. D. Glor, John Slowick, R. Garner, Clarence Williams, me, and James Hauxhurst—waiting for choppers at An Hoa Combat Base. 6 ...
( Category: Vietnam War August 3,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:Gary Cowart [Cowart, Gary]

THE CHINAMAN We spent another few days on that sand bar, and as the 7th Marines made their way west we would have to follow, right to Laos if need ...
( Category: Military August 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Albertus W. Catlin [Catlin, Albertus W.]

On June 11th the report came in that the enemy's machine gun fire had been practically silenced and he was making a last stand at the northern end of the ...
( Category: World War I August 3,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Michael J. MacLeod [MacLeod, Michael J.]

CHAPTER 4: FOB ARIAN AND MASSIVE IEDS The best place to get the latest scuttlebutt was breakfast chow. One had to be careful of what was said because third-country nationals, ...
( Category: Afghan War August 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bradley Graham

Over the next few months, Bremer moved farther away from the idea of arranging for the transitional Iraqi authority that Garner and Khalilzad had pursued and that Rumsfeld and his ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars August 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Patricia Chapman Meder

AFTER THE WAR After the war, Bob became Chief of the USAF Mission to Argentina. In 1953, after a 36-year career in the USAF, he retired to his farm in ...
( Category: United States August 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Ferrell [Pierpont L. Stackpole]

Aisne-Marne II When the last of the German attacks failed one day after it began, July 15–16, the Allies and Americans began to force the German army back over a ...
( Category: World War I August 2,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-12-14 | Author:James Doolittle & Carroll V. Glines [Doolittle, James]

According to Potter and Braemer, however, they had not been in good friendly company when they landed. They had been discovered by a band of guerrillas, robbed, tied up, and ...
( Category: World War II August 2,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Howard Kazanjian & Chris Enss [Kazanjian, Howard]

CHAPTER EIGHT Plains Living My husband used to tell me that he believed he was the happiest man on earth, and I cannot help but thinking he was. —ELIZABETH CUSTER, ...
( Category: American Civil War August 2,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Mark Owen; Kevin Maurer

It was 2007 and I was on my sixth deployment. This time, I was working with the CIA at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost Province. Khost Province was one ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars August 2,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Peter Apps [Apps, Peter]

Chapter 5 – Shelling and Snow The world Churchill now inhabited was shared with millions of soldiers of all sides. Their experiences would define a generation and shape the rest ...
( Category: World War I August 2,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-02-14 | Author:Eric Burns [Burns, Eric]

22 NINETEEN-ELEVEN, THE YEAR OF the treaty, was also the year when the Roosevelts celebrated their silver wedding anniversary. Some of the family gathered for the occasion on December 2, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-27 | Author:Grant, Ulysses S. [Grant, Ulysses S.]

CHAPTER 44 BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA—A GALLANT CHARGE—COMPLETE ROUT OF THE ENEMY—PURSUIT OF THE CONFEDERATES—GENERAL BRAGG—REMARKS ON CHATTANOOGA At twelve o’clock at night, when all was quiet, I began to give ...
( Category: American Civil War August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-12 | Author:Jack Bray

V CONFRONTATION • 8 • Ambush at Berchtesgaden “Perhaps you will wake up one morning in Vienna to find us there—just like a spring storm.” —Adolf Hitler As dawn broke ...
( Category: World War II August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alastair Campbell

August holiday We had a house in Puyméras, a little village on the other side of Ventoux. We had an OK time, though there were too many party people around ...
( Category: Letters August 1,2020 )