Military
epub |eng | 2012-12-06 | Author:Erik Goldstein

The fundamental guideline of American strategy is the principle of the quick-and-decisive battle. It is bent on promptly forcing an encounter with the Japanese fleet and deciding the issue in ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:Michael Blow [Michael Blow]

As at Oak Ridge, everything in Hanford was large, even the eight-lane highways leading in and out of the complex. Groves’s engineers argued that in case of a disaster, a ...
( Category: Military October 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-24 | Author:James Johns [Johns, James]

The addendum to Proposal B assured everyone that if the main points could be agreed upon, and if peace in the Pacific became a reality, Japan would withdraw her troops ...
( Category: Asia October 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-29 | Author:Matyszak, Philip;

Pretty clear, one might think, especially as Leotychides had managed to prevail on Agis while the old king was on his deathbed, and had been recognized as the royal heir. ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Victor Cha

CLINTON: “NON-HOSTILE INTENT” “A million, a hundred billion, and a trillion.” When then–American commander of U.S. Forces Korea, General Gary Luck, was asked to clarify what he meant, the general ...
( Category: Military October 24,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

* * * I. Wayne’s skirmish with Mawhood inadvertently sparked a conflagration that burned at the southern end of the Garden State for months. When Mawhood could not find Wayne’s ...
( Category: Americas October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Adrian Coombs-Hoar

Fritigern was in an awkward position, his troops were no doubt demanding action and without his cavalry to hand, any hostile action against the Romans was potentially disastrous, so he ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-29 | Author:Paul Chrystal

Virgil’s audience would have appreciated the poignancy of Dido’s threats. Rome did indeed pay the price for Aeneas’ duplicity; it paid with the devastating Punic Wars. Aeneas was indeed haunted ...
( Category: Military October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-21 | Author:David Wragg

CHAPTER SEVEN Comparing the Navies in 1939 ‘Finally, let it be remembered that when the present naval rearmament is completed in about 1940 our figures will be 21 capital ships ...
( Category: Military October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-05 | Author:Nick van der Bijl

Short Service engagement should be accepted as a stop-gap – a temporary expedient to meet the needs of the moment … It is possible that at some future date the ...
( Category: Europe October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-26 | Author:Craig Cabell & Graham Thomas

An old postcard image of the Bruton Parish Church. Chapter 11 Pardon This Vaine had the impudence to send me word that he designs to burn my guard ship and ...
( Category: Military October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-03 | Author:Mark Felton

After the war had began, and following Bormann’s stringent efforts to beef up security around the Berghof and prevent day trippers and hikers from getting anywhere near the place, any ...
( Category: Historical October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Roskill

At 9.48 the Bulldog was also in contact, and came in with her first full pattern, which was soon followed by others from the Amazon and the Rochester. Thus did ...
( Category: Europe October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Paul Hill

Chapter 5 Campaigns, Battles and Sieges Campaigns 871: Wessex Takes on the Great Heathen Army–a War of Attrition? The nature of the campaigning against the Great Heathen Army and its ...
( Category: Military October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-18 | Author:Felton, Mark;

SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann, Reinhard Heydrich’s deputy and one of the principal architects of the Holocaust. Mark Edelman, one of the leaders of Jewish resistance during the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt, 1943. ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 23,2018 )