Military
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Turnbull

The ‘Little War’ in Hungary During 1530 the triumphant Archduke Ferdinand took advantage of the Sultan’s absence to recapture Gran and other Danube forts. He even attacked King John Szapolyai ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Hasara

LESSONS FROM THE COCKPIT: RESILIENCE Google defines resilience as the capacity to recover from difficulties or the ability of an object to spring back into its original shape. Anaconda’s original ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-26 | Author:Angus Konstam

One of the larger Dutch warships of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Witte Olifant (‘White Elephant’) was built by the Amsterdam Admiralty, and carried her 82 guns on three decks. ...
( Category: Europe April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John France

WAR in the second half of the nineteenth century was transformed by two interacting forces – the French Revolution with its ideas of nationalism and democracy, and the huge surge ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:Chris McNab

In terms of basic operational functions, the Minimi is simple to operate. The barrel change, for example, can be performed in a matter of seconds by working through the following ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-19 | Author:Peter Baxter

A US Marine helicopter flies over a Mogadishu residential area on a patrol mission to look for signs of hostilities. A view of the K-4 Circle outside the Bangladesh Army ...
( Category: Africa April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-30 | Author:Guus de Vries

For the liberation. Sign, too! Italian propaganda card by French-born graphic artist, painter and sculptor, Achille Lucien Mauzan (1883-1952), selling a war bond. Mauzan mainly worked in Italy and South ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-18 | Author:James Carl Nelson

DEAD MEN PRIVATE LLOYD SHORT was only barely a marine on that day. Twenty-eight years old, he’d left employment in Welch’s Café, which his father owned in Watertown, South Dakota, ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:Roger Maynard

A group of Australian officers were now actively discussing the possibility of escape, among them Major Charles Moses, who was at this stage a liaison officer with Bennett’s staff, and ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Bernd Ulrich

‘The Yoke of War’24 From the beginning of the war, letters from the field (Feldpostbriefe) were used as a medium to air grievances. These letters were addressed to relatives, but ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:Margaret E. Wagner

Lieutenant James Europe leads the celebrated band of the U.S. 369th Infantry during a concert in a Paris hospital courtyard, providing wounded doughboys with a welcome transfusion of genuine American ...
( Category: Americas April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Angus Konstam

Back in Santiago, Drake had another problem to deal with. Captain Francis Knollys of the Galleon Leicester was a nobleman who saw Drake as a parvenu. As an in-law of ...
( Category: Europe April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stuart Reid

Knötel illustrations of technical troops: Hanoverian officer of the Ingenieur-Korps. Gold hat-lace; blue coat with red cuffs, lapels and lining; gilt buttons; gold knot hanging behind right shoulder but otherwise ...
( Category: Europe April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:Michael Dorflinger

René Fonck was never popular in France even though he was the best ace of the Allied forces. He specialised in attacks out of the sun when he would plunge ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-28 | Author:Moore, Lucinda [Moore, Lucinda]

British soldiers buying their Christmas geese within earshot of the guns in France, 1916. The cheerful return of soldiers with their Christmas geese to the trenches in 1914. An improvised ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )