Military
azw3 |eng | 2016-11-25 | Author:Andy Brown [Brown, Andy]

Lt Col Robert Grant was a flight surgeon at Fairchild. He was fairly new to the Air Force, and although he had flown the B-52 a few times, he wasn’t ...
( Category: True Crime May 29,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-29 | Author:Richard Overy

4 ‘A Very Gruelling Business’: Saving the RAF We contend that the British policy is to develop the independent conception of the air as an art, as an arm, and ...
( Category: Transportation May 29,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joyce Lee Malcolm

SEVENTEEN Defending New York, Again “He was dark-skinned, with black hair, and middling height; there wasn’t any waste timber in him; he was our fighting general, and a bloody fellow ...
( Category: Americas May 29,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:John Lewis-Stempel [Lewis-Stempel, John]

The defeat at Spion Kop was a sledge hammer blow to the cheerful, insolent confidence of Victorian Britain. Football fans in Liverpool, in ironic acknowledgement, named the high terraced end ...
( Category: Military May 29,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-05 | Author:Peter Fey

Throughout, Johnson remained reluctant to admit the actual costs of the war. Although short-term bookkeeping allowed his administration to hide the true costs, the bill came due in the spring ...
( Category: Military May 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-01 | Author:Philip Padgett [Padgett, Philip]

Bundy submitted the memorandum to Marshall that day to check that it accomplished the general’s intended purpose. Marshall replied, “I think it is o.k.” At some later date, Brig. Gen. ...
( Category: Military May 28,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Monty Halls

My guides met me on a flat stretch of road between the villages of Cansano and Campo di Giove. They presented two very contrasting figures – one was a whip-thin ...
( Category: Military May 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-02 | Author:Bruce Henderson

8 “WE’LL RUN OUT OF PILOTS” On the evening of February 7, 1966, a secret message was sent by Ranger CO Leo McCuddin to the secretary of the navy (SECNAV), ...
( Category: Military May 27,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:David Stevenson

15 The Central Powers’ Last Throw, Autumn 1917–Summer 1918 In autumn 1917 the Central Powers regained the initiative. Their counterattack against the Kerensky offensive initiated a reversal of fortunes comparable ...
( Category: Military May 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-26 | Author:Rust, William J.;

9 “Stupid Moves” (1959–1960) It took four weeks to produce President Eisenhower’s seven-hundred-word reply to Sihanouk’s appeal in late February 1959 for US intervention with South Vietnam and Thailand. Early ...
( Category: Military May 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Peter FitzSimons

( Category: Military May 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-01 | Author:Casey, Steven

TENSION This time, the military’s summons to the media would be camouflaged as much as possible. As the big day approached, the planners decided that the perennial problem of limited ...
( Category: Social Sciences May 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:Gerhard L. Weinberg

6. German–Soviet Front, 1941 The second main factor, however, that enabled the Germans to hold in the centre and avert disaster was the decision of Stalin to launch offensives on ...
( Category: Military May 24,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Weiss, Gordon [Weiss, Gordon]

The Sri Lankan army had failed to prick a hole in the first so-called No Fire Zone that ideally would have drained the battlefield of most civilians. The battle continued ...
( Category: Politics & Government May 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Ed Macy

11. READY TO GO NOISY Nine weeks of tough and dangerous work had gone into it. There had been a few false starts and a fair number of close shaves, ...
( Category: Americas May 23,2018 )