Military
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-21 | Author:Mark Stille [Stille, Mark]

Assessment of Operation A-Go By 1944, the IJN was dealing from a position of severe weakness. The A-Go plan was like pre-war IJN plans for a decisive battle, but in ...
( Category: Asia April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Artem Drabkin

Before our departure for the front, we were given new officers’ blouses, leather boots, soldiers’ belts and greatcoats. The first to graduate and to be sent to the front were ...
( Category: Military April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-30 | Author:Captivating History [History, Captivating]

Chapter 11 – Juno Responsibility for taking Juno beach fell upon the Canadian army. The size and prestige of the American and British military forces means that the Canadians have ...
( Category: Military April 1,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-12-22 | Author:Mark C. Bartusis [Bartusis, Mark C.]

Gemistos suggests that military leaders (“archons”) and the elite (logades) of the soldiers should receive perhaps three helots, and from these each should furnish one cavalryman combining the functions of ...
( Category: Military April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-19 | Author:Brian Lavery [Lavery, Brian]

The Saumarez went within nine cables or 1,800 yards of the target to release her torpedoes. For the crew of the Norwegian Stord it was more personal, so close to ...
( Category: Military April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-07-25 | Author:Cihan Yüksel Muslu [Muslu, Cihan Yüksel]

The Last Performances of the Mamluk Court for Bayezid Five days after his audience with the Ottoman ambassador, Qansuh al-Ghawri called the European consuls in Mamluk lands to a public ...
( Category: Middle East April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-05-22 | Author:Pierre Gilly [Gilly, Pierre]

In the end, not only Poland was lost. The whole of Central Europe was subjugated to the Soviet Union. Poland moved westwards and millions of Germans were expelled from East ...
( Category: Military April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-04-21 | Author:Gregory Smith [Smith, Gregory]

CHAPTER SIX The Hunt for U568 In May 1942, the great Admiral Andrew B Cunningham, ‘ABC’, that tough, determined, indomitable fighting leader, who had inspired the Fleet with his own ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:Lawrence Goldstone [Goldstone, Lawrence]

World’s first submarine base in New Suffolk, New York In July, to oversee the preparations for the navy trials, Rice, along with Julia and their children—five at that time—journeyed from ...
( Category: Technology April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-05-02 | Author:Garrett M. Graff [Graff, Garrett M.]

* * * I. The communications links between the four command posts were kept constantly open and running to ensure that the systems were always working and any outages would ...
( Category: Military April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-05 | Author:TD Barnes [Barnes, TD]

“Sorry, that’s classified. I can’t tell you.” “What would I be doing?” “Sorry, I can’t tell you that either.” “Whom would I be working with?” “Sorry, I can’t tell you.” ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-01 | Author:Robert Fowler [Fowler, Robert]

Southwest of Savo Island, Duncan was circling out of control and losing power. The bridge had lost power almost completely. Steering, engine order telegraph, recognition lights—all were out. Most battle ...
( Category: Military April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-19 | Author:Michael P. Gabriel [Gabriel, Michael P.]

Heinrich Breymann Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich Breymann provided this version of his defeat. In the controversy that ensued over who bore responsibility for the British disaster at Saratoga, Burgoyne hinted that ...
( Category: Americas April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-27 | Author:Graham Pitchfork [Pitchfork, Graham]

PART THREE The Middle East and Mediterranean Chapter Nine Introduction After the Italian Army’s first incursions into Egypt in September 1940, the British Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East, General Sir ...
( Category: Military April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-12 | Author:Greg Baughen [Baughen, Greg]

Arras on 21 May 1940. There was an air of haste about the decision and panic about its implementation. Masses of equipment was abandoned, unserviceable aircraft were destroyed, and brand ...
( Category: Military April 1,2018 )