Europe
epub |eng | 1995-05-31 | Author:Hanson, Victor Davis [Hanson, Victor Davis]

Greek hoplite battle between phalanxes before the Peloponnesian War was predictable in time, place, sequence, and aftermath of infantry fighting. This prompts us to ponder just how one particular Greek ...
( Category: Greece November 2,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Diving Bell;the Butterfly

Through a Glass, Darkly Hunched in my wheelchair, I watch my children surreptitiously as their mother pushes me down the hospital corridor. While I have become something of a zombie ...
( Category: Strokes November 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-31 | Author:Martin W. Bowman

Carpetbagger missions were flown in earnest throughout May. William G. McKee’s crew, for instance, flew seven night missions that month, all of them to France. On the night of 28/29 ...
( Category: England November 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Michael Shelden [Shelden, Michael]

XVIII SOUND AND FURY The tall, creamy stucco house at one end of Eccleston Square—Number 33—was in a quiet part of London in those days, a leafy enclave tucked between ...
( Category: Great Britain November 1,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Boris Groys

It soon becomes clear why Stalin reacts so heatedly to the thesis that language has a superstructural character. The superstructure is not total. It is restricted to the extent that ...
( Category: Political November 1,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Anton Gill [Gill, Anton]

Chapter Eight – Holding On As soon as he had the news, Sas communicated it to his own authorities and to Colonel Goethals. At midnight he received a lightly coded ...
( Category: Germany October 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-28 | Author:Geoffrey Hindley [Hindley, Geoffrey]

In the winter of 872 Burgred of Mercia was forced to negotiate a peace deal with the Danish main force now at Torksey in Lindsey. Late the next year, a ...
( Category: Great Britain October 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-15 | Author:Patrick Agte [Agte, Patrick]

Following the conclusion of the battle of Villers-Bocage several of the 1st Company’s Schwimmwagen drove into the town to recover those killed on 13 June 1944. On their left is ...
( Category: World War II October 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-10 | Author:Jr. Samuel W. Mitcham [Mitcham, Jr. Samuel W.]

An American Sherman tank (right) passes an abandoned Panzer Mark IV in the Ardennes, December 1944 or January 1945. Notes and Sources: Carell 1966: 454; Keegan: 156; Kursietis: 259; MacDonald ...
( Category: World War II October 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Stephen McGinty

While explaining that such rumour and speculation was only circulating by private conversation, Campbell explained that there was an ‘undefinable’ but widely held feeling of apprehension and uncertainty that was ...
( Category: Great Britain October 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:Richard Hargreaves [Hargreaves, Richard]

General Edmund Knoll-Kownacki, commanding an ad hoc group of troops, issued an equally rousing order of the day. ‘We are attacking a weaker enemy,’ he assured his men. It would ...
( Category: Germany October 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-25 | Author:James Hamilton

After fifty-seven years in Somerset House, the Royal Academy moved in 1837 to the eastern half of the National Gallery building in Trafalgar Square. Twenty years later the Royal Society ...
( Category: History October 28,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Anne Nelson [Nelson, Anne]

Arvid's report added comments from his friend Egmont Zechlin. Zech lin's Nazi sources had said that they hoped to complete a surprise attack that spring, before the retreating Russians could ...
( Category: World War II October 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 1997-12-31 | Author:Stolleis, Michael [Stolleis, Michael]

NINE “Harsh but Just”: Military Justice in the Service of National Socialism I. Military justice during the Nazi period was hardly discussed in Germany in the first decades after 1945. ...
( Category: Germany October 28,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:Coming Conquest of England [England, Coming Conquest of]

XX A FRIEND IN NEED Whilst the Russians were digging their cooking trenches somewhat aside from the main camp, and making all necessary arrangements for bivouacking, Heideck had an opportunity ...
( Category: England October 28,2015 )