Europe
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Michael Dobbs

The cheers of the crowds massed outside 10 Downing Street and along Whitehall were ringing in his ears, but Winston Churchill found it difficult to share the popular elation. The ...
( Category: World War II September 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-28 | Author:Gary

Seydlitz is launched, 30 March 1912. Therefore, the most economical cruising speed would be 12kts giving a range of 5,807nm. These values correspond to the trials draught. Vibrations were low ...
( Category: World War I September 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Peter Dornan

C H A P T E R E L E V E N Operation AVALANCHE The war was not going well for the Italians. On 25 July 1943, the Fascist ...
( Category: World War II September 15,2015 )
mobi, epub | | | Author:Fritz Leiber

CHAPTER 5 And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. —Dover Beach, by Matthew Arnold ...
( Category: Adventure September 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-25 | Author:Richard Knott

Meanwhile the losses continued: on the night of 7/8 November 1941, a major raid on Berlin by 392 aircraft, mainly Hampdens and Whitleys, saw thirty-seven aircraft fail to return or ...
( Category: Aviation September 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gerhard Koop & Klaus-Peter Schmolke

3. I did not keep the record of salvos and timings required by standing orders as I had to reappoint Aircraft NCO Kroll to another duty (removal of dented shell ...
( Category: Ships September 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Hans Seidler

A Panzergrenadier aids an injured comrade from an Sd.Kfz.251 half-track. German infantry had found the advance into enemy lines very difficult in a number of places. Due to extensive well ...
( Category: World War II September 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Gwen Watkins

Chapter 11 Changes IT HAD BECOME OBVIOUS very quickly that the huts did not provide enough working space for the growing numbers of BP workers, so in 1942 two two-storey ...
( Category: European September 9,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Lucas

15 The frustrating mud and the scouring dust From the previous chapter it can be appreciated how the cold weather affected the nature of the campaign. But there was another ...
( Category: World War II September 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:Kershaw, Alex

FOURTEEN THE COUP: JULY 20, 1944 KLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG, a tall and handsome thirty-seven-year-old German colonel, stood alone in a bathroom inside Adolf Hitler’s Prussian headquarters—the so-called Wolf’s Lair. It ...
( Category: European September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Simon Price

Carthage has so far made only cameo appearances in the story. It is time to redress the balance, and to start analysis of the relations between Carthage and Rome with ...
( Category: Greece September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-22 | Author:Christopher Corèdon

I Icknield Way. Prehistoric track which connected the Wash with Salisbury Plain. The meaning of ‘Icknield’ is unknown. Ictus regis. Lit. ‘king’s strike or blow’. The formal exchange of blows ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Paul Thomas

( Category: Conventional September 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Jack Sheldon

Major Kiesel 2nd Battalion Reserve Infantry Regiment 1555 6. “The relief turned out to be extremely awkward, because it was totally dark and the entire area was constantly under very ...
( Category: World War I September 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Lorna Almonds-windmill

On 4 August, a submission, closely resembling the draft, was put forward to the C in C recommending that a new HQ raiding forces should be formed from HQ ‘L’ ...
( Category: World War II September 6,2015 )