Military
epub |eng | 2007-03-28 | Author:Jack Sheldon [Sheldon, Jack]

1. The opinion of General von Falkenhayn concerning rigid retention of terrain, is quoted in the German Official History: Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918,10. Band. Die Operationen des Jahres 1916 ...
( Category: Military October 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-14 | Author:B. Smith

Setting the Sights on the Model 1903 The elaborate sighting system of the M1903 Springfield rifle has a great deal to do with its reputation as the most accurate military ...
( Category: Military October 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-15 | Author:Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway [Moore, Harold G. & Galloway, Joseph L.]

POLICING THE BATTLEFIELD Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. --The Duke of Wellington, in a dispatch from Waterloo, 1815 In our Mad ...
( Category: Military October 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:Barrett Tillman [Tillman, Barrett]

Strategic Attacks Resume In striking contrast to Japan’s declining industrial output that spring, America’s was still accelerating. Female workers personified as “Rosie the Riveter” represented only about one war worker ...
( Category: Asia October 14,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Irving, Nicholas; Brozek, Gary;

7. A Whole ’Nother Danger As painful as it had been to be crammed into that Humvee, I was grateful that we were no longer being shot at. I’d been ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 14,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 1993-11-30 | Author:James B. Stockdale

ESSAYS IN PUBLIC POLICY Hong Kong under Chinese Rule: The First Year David Newman and Alvin Rabushka, 1998 Affirmative Action in Higher Education: A Dilemma of Conflicting Principles John H. ...
( Category: Military October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-07 | Author:Philip Pardoe [Pardoe, Philip]

Chapter 10 A Long Weekend At Scheesel we were taken into the local hotel where an interpreter was sent for. He was a most un-German type and, although he had ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Chantelle Taylor [Taylor, Chantelle]

Me, Sgt Chantelle Taylor, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, 2008; my final tour The Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders (5 Scots) a ‘multiple’ of fighting men also known as a platoon minus. The ...
( Category: Military October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-15 | Author:Staff, Gary [Staff, Gary]

One 30.5cm shell wrecked the magazine of Battery No 40. Leitenant Bartinev now quickly decided to destroy the remaining battery and magazines, but both attempts to detonate the explosives failed, ...
( Category: Military October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Michael Dobbs [Dobbs, Michael]

For the FKR cruise missile convoy that had been ordered to the launch position west of Guantanamo Naval Base, it was turning into a chaotic and disastrous night. The missile ...
( Category: Americas October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-13 | Author:Thomas Childers

11 * * * A RACIAL REVOLUTION The Nazis had unleashed a revolution in Germany, but not an economic one. Hitler was not interested in economics and certainly did not ...
( Category: Europe October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Herbert P. Bix [Bix, Herbert P.]

December 11, 1942: Today the emperor travels to Ise Shrine to worship in person [rather than by proxy]…. December 12:…Departed Kyoto Palace at 6:45 A.M…. arrived at Yamada Station at ...
( Category: Historical October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-13 | Author:Michael Korda

Boulogne is a cramped and narrow port, overstuffed with history. Its substantial walls were built in medieval times to protect it from the English, and it contains the tallest column ...
( Category: Historical October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Waters, Conrad

An AW-101 helicopter in Marina Militare markings. Both Italian FREMM configurations can deploy and support one of these helicopters in addition to a smaller NH90 type. (AgustaWestland) A MILAS anti-submarine ...
( Category: Military October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-25 | Author:Bevin Alexander

9 Fredericksburg ON THE MORNING of September 18, 1862, Lee and Jackson reluctantly concluded that they could not launch a successful attack around McClellan’s northern flank because there was insufficient ...
( Category: Americas October 13,2017 )