Military History
epub |eng | | Author:Yulia Zhukova

CHAPTER 6 Into Battle The war, the front ... Many books have been written about this - both fiction and non-fiction, some authentic, others not particularly so. In some of ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People Biographies November 9,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-10-01 | Author:Padfield, Peter [Padfield, Peter]

8. CRISIS FOR THE U-BOATS Dönitz took over as C-in-C of the Navy (ObdM) on 30 January 1943, the tenth anniversary of Hitler’s seizure of power. His first directive to ...
( Category: Military Aviation History November 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Michael Corum, Andrew Uffindell

Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton. A rough and foul-mouthed man, Picton was nonetheless a great leader and was shot dead while heroically cheering on his men. He wore civilian clothes rather ...
( Category: Military History November 8,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-10-01 | Author:Edgar Wollstone [Edgar Wollstone]

US soldiers of the 8th Infantry and 4th Infantry Division scaling the sea-wall at Utah beach, on D-Day But their worst nightmare was about to unleash. Out of the five ...
( Category: World War II History November 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-14 | Author:Conrad C. Crane [Conrad C. Crane]

( Category: Military History November 8,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-07-21 | Author:Joseph M. Siracusa [Siracusa, Joseph M.]

Evolution of nuclear deterrence Not until the second decade of the nuclear age was the danger of nuclear weaponry and the perception of this danger sufficient to give rise to ...
( Category: Weapons & Warfare History November 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-02 | Author:Anthony Drago & Douglas Wellman [Anthony Drago & Douglas Wellman]

Although she couldn’t see, her hearing hadn’t been affected. The first sound she remembered hearing was David—half calling out, half crying—“Mom, Mom, where are you? It’s so dark; I can’t ...
( Category: Memoirs November 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:Asher, Michael [Asher, Michael]

59. ‘In the face of enemy machine-gun fire’ On the morning of 9 April 1945, Paddy Mayne’s signaller, David Danger, received an urgent wireless message. It came from Cpl. Eddie ...
( Category: Military History November 7,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-17 | Author:Tom Clancy [Clancy, Tom]

ZINNI'S INVOLVEMENT in "Operations Other Than War"--like Provide Comfort, Provide Hope, Provide Promise, and others while at EUCOM--provided a wealth of experience that he later drew on constantly. These were ...
( Category: Military History November 7,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-17 | Author:Tom Clancy [Clancy, Tom]

On May 1st, 1960, over the farmlands of central Russia, a small air battle took place that forever changed the nature of air warfare. Almost 13 miles/21 kilometers in the ...
( Category: Military History November 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-11-01 | Author:Robert Tonsetic [Tonsetic, Robert]

POW Compound—0600–0730 Hours PFC Gary Coufal, an M79 gunner from Syracuse, New York, and another grunt from 1st Platoon were in the observation tower scanning the area across the highway ...
( Category: Military History November 5,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Richard Doherty [Doherty, Richard]

Notes 1. Belogi & Guglielmi, op. cit., p.142; Jackson, op. cit., pp.267–8; Blaxland, op. cit., pp.259–60. 2. NA, WO170/5059, war diary 2/5 Queen’s. 3. Blaxland, p.259. 4. NA, WO170/5060, war ...
( Category: Military Aviation History November 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-12 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Six Battle Analysis “It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one ...
( Category: Military History November 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-23 | Author:Jeanne-Marie Gescher

Back up in the north-east lands around Hebei’s Ding Xian, the shifting fortunes of the Communists, the Guomindang and the warlords had been having an impact of their own. As ...
( Category: Military History November 5,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-01-02 | Author:Mark Stanhope

PART III Introduction Monday, 3 April, 1944, was a red letter day for the Naval Air Arm. On that day powerful forces of Bombers and Fighters attacked the German battleship ...
( Category: Military History November 5,2020 )