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The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace by Paul Thomas Chamberlin
epub |eng | 2018-07-03 | Author:Paul Thomas Chamberlin

13 The Cambodian Nightmare 1975–1979 As dawn came to Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975, white sheets fluttered from windows throughout the city. Government leaders had ordered their forces to ...
( Category: Military July 5,2018 )
Life in the French Foreign Legion: How to Join and What to Expect When You Get There by Evan McGorman
epub |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:Evan McGorman [McGorman, Evan]

You make more in the REP than the other metropolitan regiments, although I can’t speak for the overseas regiments. This became glaringly obvious while I was taking a radio course ...
( Category: Military July 5,2018 )
Unknown Soldiers by Neil Hanson
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Neil Hanson

14 GOING OUT LIKE CANDLES On 18 June 1918, just a week after his wedding, Paul Hub parted from his new wife and family and returned to his unit on ...
( Category: Military July 5,2018 )
The World Crisis, Vol. 1 (Winston Churchill's World Crisis Collection) by Winston S. Churchill
mobi |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Winston S. Churchill

CHAPTER XIII ON THE OCEANS ‘Coastwise—cross-seas—round the world and back again, Where the flaw shall head us or the full Trade suits— Plain-sail—storm-sail—lay your board and tack again— And that’s ...
( Category: Europe July 5,2018 )
Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels by Anne Garrels
epub |eng | 2004-08-12 | Author:Anne Garrels [Garrels, Anne]

BRENDA BULLETIN: MARCH 17, 2003 A most welcome call this afternoon. Brenda is well, on her toes, thinking smart, and moving fast, if only to stay a jump ahead of ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides July 5,2018 )
Lusitania by David Ramsay
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:David Ramsay

In another section of his narrative he recounts how he went down to his stateroom on B deck to recover some documents. As he was returning to the boat deck ...
( Category: Military July 5,2018 )
The Roar of the Lion by Toye Richard
epub |eng | 2013-07-04 | Author:Toye, Richard

7 ‘Throwing a Temperament Like a Bloody Film Star’ In terms of his speech-making, 1943 had not posed very severe challenges for Churchill. With the war—at last—going pretty successfully for ...
( Category: Military July 5,2018 )
Lincoln and His Generals by T. Harry Williams
mobi |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:T. Harry Williams

Right before he removed McClellan, Lincoln got rid of another general who had the “slows.” Don Carlos Buell got the ax late in October. In September, the Confederate army at ...
( Category: Americas July 5,2018 )
Armored Vehicles in the Early XX Century: Weapons and military equipment of the world by Dick W. Kerry
epub |eng | 2018-06-29 | Author:Dick W. Kerry [Kerry, Dick W.]

The staff No. 20 adopted in the winter of 1915 significantly increased the firepower of automobile armored cars. It was assumed that the number of machine-gun vehicles would be reduced ...
( Category: Military July 5,2018 )
An Unlikely Prince by Niccolo Capponi
epub |eng | 2010-08-01 | Author:Niccolo Capponi

This negative portrait notwithstanding, Machiavelli believed that the French would eventually prevail in the Italian struggle. France was the strongest country in Europe: “There is no ruler capable of confronting ...
( Category: Historical July 4,2018 )
Soldaten by Sonke & Welzer Neitzel
epub |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:Sonke & Welzer Neitzel [Neitzel, Sonke & Welzer, Harald]

Higher-ranking officers, for example, Major General Gerhard Bassenge, were particularly concerned about being held responsible for the things that had been carried out with or without Hitler’s knowledge: BASSENGE: We ...
( Category: Europe July 4,2018 )
There's a War to Be Won: The United States Army in World War II by Perret Geoffrey
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Perret, Geoffrey [Perret, Geoffrey]

Logistics was wings and handcuffs, freedom and slavery. Chiefs of staff proposed, logistics disposed. Some commanders never bothered their heads with such matters as supply, and paid for it. Patton’s ...
( Category: Americas July 3,2018 )
Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence by Frank Jacob
epub |eng | 2018-06-29 | Author:Frank Jacob [Jacob, Frank]

CHAPTER SIX POWs of the Japanese “Nobody knows what ‘Auschwitz’ is, just as nobody knows what ‘labour camp’ is. People vanish into both without a trace, and that’s the last ...
( Category: Asia July 1,2018 )
The Devil's Double Original Book, (which was made into a feature film of the same name, This Book Sold Over 6.7 Million Copies Worldwide in Twenty Languages.) by Yahia Latif
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:Yahia, Latif [Yahia, Latif]

Table of Contents Copyright A note from the Author One Recalled from the front-line Two Paradise in Hell Three The fiday Four Double trouble Five The President Six My debut ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 1,2018 )
US Marine Corps in the Second World War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Michael Green
epub |eng | 2018-06-29 | Author:Michael Green [Green, Michael]

The initial waves of US landing craft (seen at the top of this picture) are approaching Engebi Island, part of Eniwetok atoll, on 19 February 1944. The island, still smoking ...
( Category: Asia June 30,2018 )

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