Military
epub |eng | 2016-09-20 | Author:Craig Nelson [Nelson, Craig]

CHAPTER EIGHT * * * DESCRIBING THE INDESCRIBABLE Honolulu radio station KGMB interrupted its morning broadcast at 8:04 to announce that all military personnel were ordered back to duty, followed ...
( Category: Asia November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gandt, Robert

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN RICOCHET Whenever the nuggets wanted to feel better about how they were doing, all they had to do was think about Lieutenant Junior Grade Rodney Shea. In his ...
( Category: Military November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Henderson

9 Eluding Charlie LONG SHADOWS CLOAKED the western slopes of Hill 55, giving Carlos Hathcock what he considered an edge. With the sun rising behind him, and the resulting shade ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 8,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Colin G. Calloway [Calloway, Colin G.]

CHAPTER 5 The Battle with No Name A COUPLE OF MONTHS AFTER HIS VICTORY over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington wrote, famously, “The history of ...
( Category: Americas November 8,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-10-11 | Author:Azar Gat [Gat, Azar]

THE QUEST FOR POWER AND GLORY Exponential growth and hierarchical structuring also affected all the other, ‘derivative’ elements in the human motivational system, reviewed in Part 1. Status, leadership, and ...
( Category: World November 8,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-02-26 | Author:Peter Turchin [Turchin, Peter]

Part II IMPERIOPATHOSIS The Fall of Empires Chapter 8 The Other Side of the Wheel of Fortune From the Glorious Thirteenth Century into the Abyss of the Fourteenth “I am ...
( Category: Military November 8,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-11-08 | Author:Walter Kempowski

Wilhelm Hausenstein, 1882–1957 Tutzing Slept passably throughout last night, woken now and again by loud explosions in the distance. Some of those explosions, I was assured, were caused by blasts ...
( Category: Military November 8,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alfred Thayer Mahan [Mahan, Alfred Thayer]

CHAPTER VIII. SEVEN YEARS' WAR, 1756-1763-ENGLAND's OVERWHELMING POWER AND CONQUESTS ON THE SEAS, IN NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE, AND EAST AND WEST INDIES. SEA BATTLES: BYNG OFF MINORCA; HAWKE AND CONFLANS; ...
( Category: Military November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Ronald C. Rosbottom [Rosbottom, Ronald C.]

Finally, a coup de théâtre: on September 23, a small team managed to assassinate, in the cozy, German-preferred 16th arrondissement, General Dr. Julius Ritter, the head in Paris of the ...
( Category: Europe November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-05 | Author:Andrew. Wheatcroft [Wheatcroft, Andrew.]

046501374-text.qxd:Layout 1 2/17/09 11:08 AM Page 188 9 A Holy War? When dawn broke on Monday 13 September 1683 the Turkish host had already vanished. A few unfortunate miners stumbling ...
( Category: Middle East November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-11 | Author:James L. Nelson [Nelson, James L.]

PROLOGUE Chapelle, American Sailing Navy; Cronon, Changes in the Land; De Angelis, Diary; Frazer, Letter, BFTM, March 1961; NDAR: Arnold to Schuyler, 6:1275; Waterbury to Gates, 7:1295; Arnold to Gates, ...
( Category: Americas November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gross, Leonard;

21 THERE WERE TWO ironic compensations for his capture and incarceration in the deportation center on the Grosse Hamburger Strasse for Willy Glaser. The first was that he had been ...
( Category: Europe November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jeanne T. Heidler David S. Heidler [David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler]

CHAPTER 7 1814: THE YEAR OF CRISIS The spring of 1814 ushered in major changes on both sides of the world. Napoleon’s defeat was complete by April, and his exile ...
( Category: Military November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-02 | Author:Graff, Garrett M. [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 ...
( Category: Americas November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:Steven M. Johnson [Johnson, Steven M.]

Blackbeard was hunted down and killed by the English navy in 1718. Most of the 25,000 pirates operating in the Caribbean had to be hunted down and killed or hanged ...
( Category: Asia November 8,2017 )