Military History
azw3 |eng | 2020-09-13 | Author:Dick W. Kerry [Kerry, Dick W.]

Vyacheslav Malyshev in his letter to Beria October 18, 1944 about the reasons for rejection of mass production IC tanks with 100-mm gun, wrote that in the now 100-mm gun ...
( Category: Military History September 22,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-09-13 | Author:Gabriel W. Thurston [Thurston, Gabriel W.]

Tamerlane's Indian campaign in 1398 Tamerlane returned to Samarkand in 1396 and turned his gaze to India. Outwardly, there was no particular reason for the invasion of India. Samarkand was ...
( Category: Military History September 21,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Susanna B. Hecht & Alexander Cockburn [Hecht, Susanna B.]

NINE The Ecology of Justice The forest is one big thing; it has people, animals, and plants. There is no point saving the animals if the forest is burned down; ...
( Category: Military History September 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-18 | Author:Ted Stocker

CHAPTER SIX TOURING The war in Europe may have ended, but the war in the Far East still had nearly four months left to run, and the RAF began preparing ...
( Category: Military History September 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-02 | Author:Gabriel Kolko

Coalitions and Strategy: Real and Imagined The Kosovo war marked the end of NATO as one of the principal means of directly applying U.S. military power in Europe, for it ...
( Category: Military History September 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-21 | Author:Richard Smith

On 31st August, the Wing was airborne at 6.41 am, to act as ‘high cover’ to a force of 36 Marauders who were to bomb targets at Lille and Veuderville. ...
( Category: Military History September 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:David Wragg

211: Formed April 1918 from No. 11 Squadron RNAS. In September 1939, the squadron was flying Blenheims in Egypt and did not see action until after Italy entered the war, ...
( Category: Engineering September 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:T. Robert Fowler

As the column of vehicles of the Quick Reaction Force (QRF) geared down to a stop along Route Summit, one soldier looked out on the scene with more interest than ...
( Category: Military History September 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-04 | Author:Ronald Kessler [Kessler, Ronald]

Vice President Joe Biden regularly orders the Secret Service to keep his military aide with the nuclear football a mile behind his motorcade, potentially leaving the country unable to retaliate ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People Biographies September 14,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-09-08 | Author:Charles River Editors

Hannibal was also fully aware of each infantry unit’s individual strengths and weaknesses. With these aspects of his infantry clearly in mind, Hannibal prepared an infantry line that would support ...
( Category: Military History September 14,2020 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Douglas J. Feith [Feith, Douglas J.]

The New York Times reported in some detail on this debate about the term “material breach.” After the National Security Council meeting (it wrote), some officials began considering a blander ...
( Category: Military History September 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Saunders

At 0930 hours, the Panthers advanced from Rauray north east to Cheux. Some were engaged by 7 RTR, supporting the stalled 10 HLI, who claimed two kills. 10 HII’s war ...
( Category: Military History September 10,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henrik O. Lunde

Modifications to the Offensive Plans The final directive for the offensive was issued on April 17. Fleischer worried about the effects of the spring thaw and wanted to start the ...
( Category: Military History September 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-27 | Author:James Brown

There are examples throughout Australia’s commitment in Afghanistan of soldiers sunbathing in tactical positions, manning single-man piquets as a matter of routine, sitting in chairs and facing inwards in enemy ...
( Category: Military History September 9,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tony Matthews

The Gestapo was also instrumental in allowing Jewish refugees to flee into Lithuania with temporary ‘summer resort’ visas. On 13 October, 1938, the U.S. legation in Lithuania informed the State ...
( Category: Military History September 4,2020 )