Military
epub |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Ryan, Cornelius [Ryan, Cornelius]

A Bridge Too Far Part Five DER HEXENKESSEL [The Witches’ Cauldron] “Monty’s tanks are on the way!” All along the shrunken Oosterbeek perimeter—from slit trenches, houses now turned into strong ...
( Category: Europe April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-19 | Author:Lehrack, Otto [Lehrack, Otto]

THE ATTACK ON NAM YEN 3 As Hotel, 2/4’s 1st and 3d platoons closed on Nam Yen 3 the first sign of life from the village was a black-pajama-clad man ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:Hanson, Victor [Hanson, Victor]

LEGENDS OF LEPANTO More than 15,000 Christian slaves were freed at Lepanto and more than two hundred galleys and nearly one hundred lesser craft were mostly destroyed or lost to ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-04-19 | Author:Sun-Tzu [Sun-Tzu]

[1] See Col. Henderson, op. cit. vol. I. p. 426. [2] For a number of maxims on this head, see "Marshal Turenne" (Longmans, 1907), p. 29. ----------------------------------------------------------------- VIII. VARIATION IN ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Foote, Shelby [Foote, Shelby]

Tactically speaking, Lee no doubt regretted Burnside’s departure. He would miss him, much as he missed McClellan, now in retirement, and John Pope and Joe Hooker, who had been shunted ...
( Category: Americas April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-30 | Author:Dower, John W. [Dower, John W.]

These matters bear spelling out a bit, for as the cyclical nature of American memory suggests, they are easily forgotten. Of course, the images of nuclear hell that Dr. Hachiya ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1962-01-01 | Author:Tuchman, Barbara W. [Tuchman, Barbara W.]

15 “The Cossacks Are Coming!” ON AUGUST 5 IN ST. PETERSBURG Ambassador Paléologue of France drove past a regiment of Cossacks leaving for the front. Its general, seeing the French ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Westad, Odd Arne [Westad, Odd Arne]

ANY SOCIETY PUT UNDER the stress of massive warfare will suffer, not just at the time but for years to come. China was no exception. Everywhere the Japanese armies went, ...
( Category: Asia April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-19 | Author:Lunde, Henrik O. [Lunde, Henrik O.]

Modifications to the Offensive Plans The final directive for the offensive was issued on April 17. Fleischer worried about the effects of the spring thaw and wanted to start the ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-11-15 | Author:Churchill, Winston S. [Churchill, Winston S.]

Closing the Ring 444 Stalin then put the crucial question, “Who will command ‘Overlord’?” The President replied that this had not yet been decided. Stalin said bluntly that the operation ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-01 | Author:Herwig, Holger H. [Herwig, Holger H.]

* A term famously coined by Muhammad Ali for the “Rumble in the Jungle” against George Foreman in October 1974 at Kinshasa, Zaire. *Interestingly, in 1934 King Albert of Belgium ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Filkins, Dexter [Filkins, Dexter]

THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE swayed and the windows rattled and the bathroom door slammed on its own. I set down my coffee and spilled it over the counter. It ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-18 | Author:Evans, Richard J. [Evans, Richard J.]

‘HELL HAS BROKEN OUT’ I On the Eastern Front, the defeat of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad marked the beginning of a long retreat that was only to end ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-09 | Author:Davis, William C. [Davis, William C.]

The ironclad was entirely enshrouded in the smoke from the battle. Few aboard could see anything of what was happening on the Cumberland, but Buchanan knew that she was sinking ...
( Category: Americas April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Evans, Richard J. [Evans, Richard J.]

II The complacent belief of Franz von Papen and his friends that they had Hitler where they wanted him did not last long. The Nazis occupied only three cabinet posts. ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 26,2018 )