Military
epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Hampton Sides

* * * At the war council, such talk was ambient noise, static in the air, bile festering in the bowels of the Dai Ichi Building. These were early versions ...
( Category: Military October 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-10 | Author:Anthony Tucker-Jones [Tucker-Jones, Anthony]

The air war hots up Supporting the preparations for Dragoon were the 42nd Bomb Wing (Medium) and the 17th Bomb Group. The former first saw action during the invasion of ...
( Category: Military October 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-30 | Author:Hughes, Ben; [Hughes, Ben;]

Chapter 9 Tragedy at Tumbez: HMS Phoebe, 3 October 1813 – 10 December 1813 At daylight on 3 October 1813 the lookouts on HMS Phoebe and Cherub sighted land. Cape ...
( Category: Europe October 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-14 | Author:Max Hastings

( Category: Military October 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-04 | Author:T. G. Otte [Otte, T. G.]

Baron Giesl leaves Belgrade While the chancelleries of Europe moved in anticipation of Belgrade’s reply to the Habsburg démarche, the Serbian capital itself resembled a ‘beehive’, as Baron Giesl, the ...
( Category: Military October 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Jeff Miller

Chapter Nine “I WOULD GO INTO BATTLE WITH ANY ONE OF THEM” The off week between the loss at Hawaii and the December 6 date in Philadelphia against the Naval ...
( Category: Biographies October 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-09 | Author:Jay Winter [Winter, Jay]

71 Retish, Russia’s Peasants, pp. 25 (quote), 60; see Baker, ‘Rampaging soldatki’, p. 153; Scott J. Seregny, ‘Zemstvos, peasants, and citizenship: the Russian adult education movement and World War I’, ...
( Category: Military October 13,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John F. Winkler

Many Indians preferred war clubs to tomahawks as weapons in close combat. The clubs often had wooden spikes or were studded with pieces of metal. (Jeff Dearth Collection) Their food, ...
( Category: Americas October 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-02 | Author:Alexander Bennett

Yamaoka Tesshu was a famous calligrapher, Zen master and formidable swordsman. His students influenced the development of modern Kendo. Not only was Tesshu an intimidating fencer, he was a key ...
( Category: Asia October 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-19 | Author:rebecca manley

The journey to Tashkent was long and arduous. Moreover, as Georgii Efron noted in his diary en route, the “routes that lead there are numerous.” 159 Those traveling from the ...
( Category: Military October 12,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Michael Sturmer

5 EUROPE—A CONCERT NO MORE The repose of Europe, as British statesmen of the early decades of the nineteenth century used to describe the balance of power, had been rudely ...
( Category: Europe October 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Ralph D. Sawyer

50 Danger Tactical Discussion Whenever engaging an enemy in battle, if you should suddenly penetrate terrain where you are in danger of perishing, you should arouse your generals and officers, ...
( Category: Military October 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-18 | Author:Ben MacIntyre [Ben MacIntyre]

On September 15, Bettaney was summoned to a meeting at MI5’s Gower Street headquarters to discuss an urgent counterintelligence case that had arisen. Instead, on arrival, he was taken to ...
( Category: Military October 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Jo McConahay

—ORSON WELLES, SCRIPT, The Brass Ring The propaganda mandate of the CIAA was to contrast the Allies’ democracies with the totalitarianism exemplified by the Reich. In recruiting Orson Welles, Rockefeller’s ...
( Category: Military October 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-23 | Author:Richard A. Billows [BILLOWS, RICHARD]

15. Coin of Alexander depicting the king holding a thunderbolt (Wikimedia Commons public domain image from PHGCOM) In other words, the legend of Alexander as a superhuman hero was assiduously ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 11,2018 )