Military
epub, mobi | | 1988-11-15 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose [Ambrose, Stephen E.]

At that moment, glider no. 2 came down, exactly one minute behind no. 1. Pilot Oliver Boland could see Wallwork's Horsa ahead of him, 'and I didn't want to run ...
( Category: Military August 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:T. R. Fehrenbach

Chapter 24 TREASONS México's independence, then, was the achievement of two opposed sectors, each working toward a different immediate objective. One side wanted to separate from a liberal Spain and ...
( Category: Military August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Deborah Campbell

Chapter 13 THE DISAPPEARANCE THE DAY BEGAN LIKE any other. Awakened at dawn by the call to prayer, I fell back asleep for another hour. When I woke again I ...
( Category: Middle East August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Lord, Walter; [Lord, Walter]

CHAPTER IX “You Don’t Wear a Tie to War” THE BREESE SAW IT first. From her anchorage off Pearl City, the old destroyer-minecraft sighted a conning tower turning up the ...
( Category: Military August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-29 | Author:Boris Gindin [Hagberg, David; Gindin, Boris]

THE OFFICERS DIVIDED Gindin has made his choice and is waiting for the other officers to make theirs—white or black. Some of them seem to have calmed down a little. ...
( Category: Russia August 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1992-11-15 | Author:Griffin, W. E. B. [Griffin, W. E. B.]

"Colonel Felter called me," McNair said, "and said that you would run interference, where necessary, with the bureaucrats. We were wondering when you would show up. " "Sorry I'm late, ...
( Category: Americas August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-05 | Author:Neil J. Sullivan [Sullivan, Neil J.]

Since the threat of a German bomb was essential to triggering the Manhattan Project, why was that threat not seriously defined before the United States committed such enormous resources to ...
( Category: Military August 29,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Richard Cohen [Cohen, Richard]

Frederick was breathless. “Now what do we do?” “You jump over my sword,” said Ferdinand, “and I’ll jump over yours.” “What good will that do?” “It will give us something ...
( Category: Individual Sports August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Keneally

6 It was a waking dream. The diggers found no corpse but a vacancy, and stood back, their faces all what he would call classic Antarctic faces, the type that ...
( Category: World August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Hayward [Hayward, James]

9 Summer and Snow On the morning of 7 September, Black Saturday, code-breakers at Bletchley Park ascertained that the Luftwaffe were again preparing for action on a grand scale. By ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-28 | Author:P. R. Reid

A quarrel ensued in which Tunstall told him to check up with the duty officer, and much else besides, and to emphasize some of his points touched the German with ...
( Category: Military August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Emma Craigie

In his diary the politician Harold Nicolson notes the response of Mrs Grove, his London housekeeper, to the news of the deaths of Mussolini and Clara Petacci. Mrs Groves thinks ...
( Category: Military August 28,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-15 | Author:Alan Evans [Evans, Alan]

10 A dark night and now snow was falling, but lightly, tossed on the wind. The inlet should lie ahead, over the nodding bow of the fishing boat, but darkness ...
( Category: Military August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:William Wharton

MIKE HENNESSY Not long after this, we go to relieve the Twenty-Eighth Division, The Yankee Division. They’ve just finished trying to charge up a hill on the old Maginot Line, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-28 | Author:Janine di Giovanni

7 Homs, Bab al-Sebaa Street – Sunday 14 October 2012 It was early autumn in Homs, the heat was subsiding, the air was beginning to turn cool. I had come ...
( Category: World August 28,2017 )