Military
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:Branfill-Cook, Roger;

HMS Kia Wo (Wanhsien Incident 1926) In September 1926 two British steamers on the Yangtze belonging to the China Navigation Company, the Wanhsien and Wantung were seized by the Chinese ...
( Category: Military October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Messenger, Charles;

One can only presume that von Trott mentioned von Rundstedt’s name in the hope that it would impress the Allies and that he might be able to win him round ...
( Category: Military October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-12 | Author:Mark Felton

8 Comfort Girls We were given flower names and they were pinned to our doors. They started to drag us away one by one. And I could hear all the ...
( Category: Asia October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Richard Mead

Chapter 18 River and Mountain ‘The last two nights,’ Dick wrote to Lettice on the day Naples was liberated, ‘I have had a pleasant site alongside some world famous ruins.’ ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-22 | Author:Frank McLynn

13 Even as Operation THURSDAY began and the campaign in the Arakan continued, simultaneously the Japanese opened a massive offensive in what would prove to be a four-month battle, the ...
( Category: Military October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-22 | Author:Richard B Mead

Chapter 14 Brigade Bob flew via Khartoum to Lagos, where he boarded a ship back to the UK. He arrived in Liverpool on 28 February 1942, to be met by ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-18 | Author:Mark Felton

During the same month on New Guinea a large party of Australian soldiers and airmen was captured and executed by the Japanese. Two female missionaries were captured alongside them. They ...
( Category: Asia October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-22 | Author:Fink, Carole K.;

Vietnam The Vietnam War remained the most critical issue in US-Soviet relations. Early in the Nixon administration, the president had signaled that these could not improve without Soviet aid in ...
( Category: Americas October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stackelberg, Roderick; Winkle, Sally A.;

The November Pogrom, 1938 With preparations for war in full swing by 1938, leading Nazis pressured for an escalation of measures to force Jews to emigrate. The SS, in particular, ...
( Category: Military October 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-01 | Author:Larry Minear [Minear, Larry]

Interview Tyler Benson (AFC2001/001/52131), Photographs (PH 07), VHP, AFC, LOC. Photograph © Linda Cullen, used with permission. * * * Spec. Tyler Benson of the Minnesota National Guard’s 134th Signal ...
( Category: Military October 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Marc Wortman [Wortman, Marc]

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 October 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-10-20 | Author:Jan T. Gross

COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY Even though the Nazi-conceived project of the eradication of world Jewry will remain, at its core, a mystery, we know a lot about various mechanisms of the “final ...
( Category: World October 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:James Stavridis [Stavridis, James]

What did I take away from these four high-level cases? I would answer by telling you about a painting that hangs on the wall in my office. It depicts the ...
( Category: Military October 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Collins, Larry & Lapierre, Dominique [Collins, Larry & Lapierre, Dominique]

21 For Paris, there was no twenty-four-hour respite. Then fighting resumed after dawn in growing intensity all across the city. Shortly after eight, four tanks of the ingenious SS Standartenführer ...
( Category: Europe October 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Eric Dezenhall & Eric Dezenhall

After six months in prison, Gennady hadn’t changed his story once. The slew of “cellmates” the KGB had sent in to befriend him had yielded squat. Nor had the KGB ...
( Category: Military October 19,2018 )