Military
epub |eng | | Author:Marc Wortman

ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 13, an ashen Johnston gathered his generals. He had learned that an entire Union division had crossed the Oostanaula at Lay’s Ferry several miles to ...
( Category: Americas December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Hurst

I was surprized to hear that you were to be left behind—and so was Gen Grant . . . He left to Gen McClernand and Gen Smith the [question of ...
( Category: Americas December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-18 | Author:Peter Kilduff

Berthold’s Albatros D.III (left) in his new blue and red colour scheme with his flying sword insignia. The third aircraft from left, with the white arrow marking, was flown by ...
( Category: Military December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-08 | Author:Gavin Mortimer

Friday 10 March was a ‘lovely day’, according to Milner-Barry. The weather was dreamy, Stefan Casulli arrived back from the Turkish port of Bodrum with fresh meat and vegetables, and ...
( Category: Europe December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Buckley

Crocker was not the only British commander to grumble about the Canadians. In early September Major General ‘Bubbles’ Barker, commanding 49th Division, complained about how the British role in First ...
( Category: Europe December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-28 | Author:Tad Fitch

The view from a U-boat on patrol. (Authors’ Collection) As the ship sailed along, it steamed directly into the minefield laid by U-75, and was torn open by a tremendous ...
( Category: Military December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:Mesut Uyar

A cavalry patrol resting somewhere near Saros. The northern region was covered by the 1st Independent Cavalry Brigade for an extensive period of time (image courtesy of Nejat Çuhadaroğlu). In ...
( Category: Military December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Martin Bowman

The troop carriers could not have speeded up the operation by using more or larger planes, since they had put into ‘Market’ almost every aircraft and crew they had, The ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-08 | Author:Janet Macdonald

TIMING OF MEALS Although theoretically the time and duration of meals was at the captain’s discretion, when a squadron was working together such things were laid down by the senior ...
( Category: Engineering December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Geoffrey Powell

And so the Grenadiers did, as the Irish had done during the break-out from the Meuse-Escaut Canal. However, to some of the airborne officers, both British and American, who watched ...
( Category: Military December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Andy Saunders

The Junkers 88 crew were never buried and post-war controversy inflamed and polarised local opinion when the idea of a memorial to the four Germans was proposed. Ultimately, the village ...
( Category: Military December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vincent O'Hara [O’Hara, Vincent P.]

Action Off Syltefjord, 21 January 1943 TIME: 2123–2230 TYPE: Interception WEATHER: Full moon, winds SW force 4 to 5 three to five miles VISIBILITY: SEA STATE: Calm, sea state 1 ...
( Category: Military December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:Mark Jacobson

By the time I got to Lee Circle I was dripping wet. Robert E. Lee was there, or rather a bronze twelve-foot-tall likeness of the Confederate general, built in 1884. ...
( Category: World December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-29 | Author:Andrew Rawson

Twelve B Battalion tanks and three C Battalion tanks led the 1/6th Gordons under crossfire from Fontaine and La Folie Wood and Lieutenant Colonel Fraser’s men had to fall back. ...
( Category: Military December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-08 | Author:Eugene L. Meyer

* * * For the family and descendants of Dangerfield Newby, there were both challenges and opportunities during chaotic times of civil war, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and beyond. Sometime during ...
( Category: Americas December 9,2018 )