Military
epub |eng | 2012-10-24 | Author:Martin W. Bowman

26/27 June 1942 The ‘Alert’ sounded at 2.05am on a brilliantly moonlit Saturday morning. With 12 mile visibility and only sporadic AA fire and searchlights, thirty raiders made a determined ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:James Davey & Richard Johns

Monsieur sneaking Gallantly into Brest’s sculking Hole W Richardson, c1778. Etching with engraving. NMM PAD4791 This anonymous etching offers an optimistic view of British achievements at the Battle of Ushant ...
( Category: World March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Nick Robins

The big steamers were designed in such a way that the European crew and clerical staff were accommodated on the main deck, along with some of the third-class Burmese passengers ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-19 | Author:Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

( Category: Specific Groups March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-22 | Author:Hugh Montagu Butterworth

These men of RIR 248 were under attack from 9/RB’s left column – caught in a pincer between Douglas Carmichael’s platoon of C Company, sprinting across no-man’s-land, intent on making ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:Adams-Graf, John [Adams-Graf, John]

LITHUANIA Order of Gedeminas, Grand Cross, 1st Model. $5,095 (£3,159) Hermann-Historica.de Order of Gedeminas, Commander, 2nd Model. $590 (£366) Hermann-Historica.de Order of the Cross of Vytis, III Class in silver. ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-15 | Author:Philip Matyszak

The emperor Vespasian, restorer of peace in AD 70, founder of the Flavian dynasty. Known to gladiators mainly as the builder of the Flavian Amphitheatre, the world’s all-time premier fighting ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Ian

Fig 10-11. In his great work Architectura Navalis Mercatoria of 1768 the Swedish naval architect F H Chapman includes this plan of a small frigate, the lines of which bear ...
( Category: Europe March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nik Cornish

Men of North Western Front's First Shock Army patrol the edges of the Ramushevo corridor between the main German lines and the Demiansk pocket. It was through this gap in ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Stedman

Trones Wood One thousand yards east of Montauban lay Bernafay Wood. North east of Bernafay Wood lay Trones Wood, its northern tip pointing towards the higher ground of Delville Wood ...
( Category: Europe March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-19 | Author:John S.D. Eisenhower [Eisenhower, John S.D.]

* A group called the Brook Farmers, a literary group located near Boston, wrote in their house organ, “There can be no doubt of the design being entertained by the ...
( Category: Americas March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-18 | Author:Dominic Lieven [Lieven, Dominic]

CHAPTER 5 CRISIS FOLLOWS CRISIS, 1909–13 Recovering from Humiliation The Russian press coined the unhelpful phrase “diplomatic Tsushima” to describe Russia’s surrender to German and Austrian pressure at the climax ...
( Category: World March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Alex Niestle

Chapter 3 1. U 25 was ordered to operate against Allied shipping in the Bay of Biscay. When it failed to report its position after sailing from Wilhelmshaven, the boat ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-11 | Author:Ian Baxter [Baxter, Ian]

A soldier changing his clothing in the snow. He wears the reversible white camouflage trousers. The soldiers found their winter clothing extremely warm and comfortable, and provided the wearer with ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-30 | Author:Kevin F. Kiley

Fort McHenry was a star-shaped fort which guarded Baltimore harbour. The five bastions and the redan covering the sally port are clearly visible, as is the unprotected magazine between the ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )