Military
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Rayment, Sean [Rayment, Sean]

Chapter 6: The Lonely Walk ‘I was almost killed the other day.’ Staff Sergeant Gareth Wood, ATO, 11 EOD Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps, serving with JFEOD Group ‘If you’re lucky, ...
( Category: Engineering September 18,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1990-09-18 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara W.]

15 “The Cossacks Are Coming!” ON AUGUST 5 IN ST. PETERSBURG Ambassador Paléologue of France drove past a regiment of Cossacks leaving for the front. Its general, seeing the French ...
( Category: Military September 18,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-05-12 | Author:James M. Mcpherson [McPherson, James M.]

Day Three: July 3, 1863 JULY 3 DAWNED warm and humid—normal for midsummer in Gettysburg. As the light strengthened, firing broke out and grew louder on the Culp's Hill lines, ...
( Category: Americas September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-22 | Author:David R. Contosta

“I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, ...
( Category: Military September 18,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-07-21 | Author:The Editors of TIME-LIFE [TIME-LIFE, The Editors of]

TOUGH GOING British troops were optimistic before the battle began. Shrinking Perimeter The Allied forces retreated into tighter and tighter defensive pockets around Dunkirk. Each darker shade of green indicates ...
( Category: Military September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nathaniel C. Fick [Fick, Nathaniel]

22 EIGHT MILES FROM the Iraqi border, I learned about the start of the war from the BBC. Tomahawks and stealth fighters kicked it off a day early in an ...
( Category: Military September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Avlon

IN THE END, WASHINGTON OUTMANEUVERED the Democratic-Republicans in Congress to pass the Jay Treaty, based largely on his personal prestige. “Nothing but his weight of character and reputation, combined with ...
( Category: Americas September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-21 | Author:Blumenson, Martin [MARTIN BLUMENSION]

Mr. McCloy asked me what I thought of Monty. I said first that I preferred not to answer, and then on being pressed, I said I thought Monty was too ...
( Category: Military September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Philip Kaplan

A sixteen-inch shell from the warship. The commemorative surrender plaque in the deck of the Missouri. General Douglas MacArthur signing the surrender documents on 2 September 1945. An RPV drone ...
( Category: Military September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-02 | Author:Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

The First Roosevelt: 1932–1940 BEFORE CONSIDERING OUR MAIN THEME—FDR’S VANITY AND URGE FOR power at the expense of decisive leadership—we pause to set the stage by recalling the Roosevelt who ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-02 | Author:Graham Seal

Yanks Down Under After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, Australia turned towards America for strategic support in the Pacific war. Australia rapidly became an extended American base, with ...
( Category: Military September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Bennett, Geoffrey [Bennett, Geoffrey]

VIII To the Baltic 1800-1801 The First Lord might so far disapprove of Nelson's conduct as to I recall him from his command; but to Britain's allies he was the ...
( Category: Europe September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Sandra Lee

Chapter 15 ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH Sergeant D and Sarbi rotated out of Sydney with Special Operations Task Group 7 (SOTG7) on 24 June 2008. He was 32 years ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 1998-09-17 | Author:Douglas Southall Freeman

CHAPTER 22 Jackson Gets His Greatest Orders 1 “HOW CAN WE GET AT THESE PEOPLE?” A mild and cloudy morning it was, that twenty-ninth of April, but rich in the ...
( Category: Americas September 17,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-07-24 | Author:Sergey Yarov [Yarov, Sergey]

The paramedics, when they arrived, roughly shoved him into the ambulance, and that was the last Irina saw of him. She could not locate him in either the mortuaries or ...
( Category: Military September 17,2017 )