Military
epub |eng | 2009-11-25 | Author:Ragnar Benson [Benson, Ragnar]

Chapter 7 Survival Food Preservation Quick, why do commercial potato farmers often leave the equivalent of fifty 100-pound bags of potatoes per acre lying in the field to waste? Fully ...
( Category: Sociology January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-30 | Author:Tim Harper & Christopher Bayly [Harper, Tim & Bayly, Christopher]

MALAYA’S FORGOTTEN REGIMENTS Among the forsaken of empire were the vast regiments of labourers on the rubber plantations of Malaya. In the words of Selangor trade unionist C. V. S. ...
( Category: Asia January 24,2018 )
mobi | | 2005-12-09 | Author:Gary Berntsen; Ralph Pezzullo

* Gary Schroen in his CIA-approved book First In refers to several meetings between myself (I’m called Gary 2 in the book) and Engineer Aref. He explains that Engineer Aref ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 24,2018 )
mobi | | 2000-07-21 | Author:T. R. Fehrenbach

| Go to Table of Contents | 22 Changjin Reservoir Easy Company holds here! — Captain Walter Phillips, commanding E Company, 7th Marines, on a hill above Yudam-ni. THREE DAYS ...
( Category: Military January 24,2018 )
mobi | | 2006-02-17 | Author:Michael R. Gordon

At Rams, the rest of the regiment’s supply column had finally begun to trickle in. When the soldiers arrived, Captain John Cochran was stunned. As the assistant operations officer for ...
( Category: Middle East January 24,2018 )
mobi | | 2010-01-30 | Author:Mark Moyar

CHAPTER 9 The War in Afghanistan he path to the catastrophic attacks of September ii, 2001, winds through the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the ensuing SovietAfghan War. ...
( Category: Middle East January 24,2018 )
mobi | | 2010-01-27 | Author:James S Corum

The Tet Offensive and a New U.S. Strategy During late fall of 1967 the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese prepared for what would be a major blow to the South ...
( Category: Military January 24,2018 )
mobi | | 2009-06-08 | Author:James R. Arnold

Paths Not Taken When Lau Yew perceived that acts of terror had failed so far to drive off the British or to create Liberated Areas where the guerrilla force could ...
( Category: World January 24,2018 )
mobi | | 2009-09-29 | Author:Gary C. Schroen

Rick called Colonel Mulholland at Karshi Khanabad to tell him that the Northern Alliance agreed to receive ODA-555 but insisted that the soldiers wear civilian clothing. The colonel exploded in ...
( Category: Military January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-13 | Author:Father Desbois

More than ten thousand of them went toward the station, thinking they would be taking the train. The German units corralled them into what could only be called ravines of ...
( Category: World January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Cooper, Bryan

Mark IV tanks in action during the Flanders campaign. The one on the left has been hit by enemy artillery and is on fire. Mark IVs under construction at the ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:David Petriello

Overall, disease would again kill more soldiers than bullets or bayonets during the war. It has been estimated that as many as three-quarters of all American and British casualties resulted ...
( Category: Americas January 22,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Bryan Perrett

‘The feelings of a father, upon such a glorious achievement as the victory you have obtained over the enemy, with such fearful odds against you, can be better conceived than ...
( Category: Historical January 22,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam [Vietnam, Westmoreland: The General Who Lost]

WESTMORELAND'S DEPARTURE ENDED four years during which, as Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird later observed, "the war had been Americanized." Said Laird, "We had not been giving the South Vietnamese ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 22,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stewart Gordon

Even more interesting than De Coutre’s description of the battle in Manila harbor are four memorials he wrote to the Spanish monarch around 1625. He was all too aware that, ...
( Category: Transportation January 22,2018 )