Military History
epub |eng | 2015-11-15 | Author:John Newsinger

7 The Long War: Northern Ireland The conflict in Northern Ireland has been the most protracted of British counterinsurgency campaigns, with the retreat from Empire ending up in what is ...
( Category: Military History November 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Norman Clark [Clark, Norman]

Liberty 4 T 3.5 ton USA 1916-18 The name ‘Liberty Truck’ was applied to several American vehicles in WW1. Although they maintained their own names they were deliberately built to ...
( Category: History of Military Vehicles November 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-09-13 | Author:Craig W. H. Luther & David Stahel

29.9.41: UNTEROFFIZIER WILHELM PRÜLLER (9 PANZER DIVISION, 1 PANZER GROUP, ARMY GROUP SOUTH)145 In the early morning we make a campfire out of haystacks, but it only warms the side ...
( Category: Military History November 16,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Marcus Luttrell; Patrick Robinson

8 The Final Battle for Murphy’s Ridge The ground shook. The very few trees swayed. The noise was worse than any blast all day...This was one gigantic Taliban effort to ...
( Category: Military History November 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas A. Squire [Squire, Thomas A.]

21 This practice is no longer recommended due to risks of the leech vomiting bacteria back into the wound. Current recommened practices suggest using a sharp tool, like a knife, ...
( Category: Military History November 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-26 | Author:Gregory Barnes

An American bomber crewman sleeping below a pin-up in Darwin, Australia. Flyers rose early, sometimes well before dawn, had coffee in the mess hall, and then went to the operations ...
( Category: Military History November 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-21 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Four The Soviet T-34 “The finest tank in the world.” —German Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist Hitler went into Operation Barbarossa with a sense of certainty that this was ...
( Category: Military History November 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-12 | Author:Brad Butkovich

( Category: Military History November 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Zaloga, Steven [Zaloga, Steven]

The WN60 defense nest on the extreme eastern side of Omaha Beach was located on top of the cliffs of the Plateau du Calvados. During the D-Day landings, the 3/16th ...
( Category: World War II History November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-19 | Author:Neitzel, Sönke [Neitzel, Sönke]

BROICH: We shot women as if they had been cattle. I was at ZHITOMIR the day after it happened, while moving forward when the second offensive was about to start. ...
( Category: Military History November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Gannon, Michael [Gannon, Michael]

In Hardegen’s shooting report the diagram depicting the relative courses of the two vessels, U-boat and target, shows that the torpedo hit on the target’s port side. The accompanying narrative ...
( Category: Military Aviation History November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:EVANS, RICHARD J.

‘HELL HAS BROKEN OUT’ I On the Eastern Front, the defeat of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad marked the beginning of a long retreat that was only to end ...
( Category: Military History November 13,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-04 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

A resident of the Cholon neighborhood watches helplessly as fire creeps toward her home during the fierce fighting that engulfed parts of Saigon during “Mini-Tet” in May 1968. Some thirty ...
( Category: Military History November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:Lars Gyllenhaal & Lennart Westberg [Gyllenhaal, Lars]

The Swedish-American Contribution The book Band of Brothers was a bestseller already before it was made into a television mini-series. Richard “Swede” Stockhouse belonged to the same regiment as the ...
( Category: Military History November 13,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Chris Mcnab [Mcnab, Chris]

German troops advance behind an StuG III through the devastated landscape of Stalingrad in 1942. The destruction of Stalingrad was so complete that during the severe winter of 1942/43 the ...
( Category: Military History November 13,2020 )