Military
epub |eng | 2016-03-25 | Author:Stephen Harding
The future USS Strong (DD-467) takes shape on the ways at Bath Iron Works (BIW). Hull number 193 was among the first six of an eventual 31 2,100-ton Fletcher-class destroyers ...
( Category:
Japan
May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-09 | Author:Jonathan Dimbleby
12. Beating the Drum In January 1942 the neon signs along the eastern seaboard from thousands of restaurants, bars and casinos from Miami to New York sent a spiral of ...
( Category:
World War II
May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Paul Oldfield
A trainee paratrooper about to jump from a Whitley – the cramped conditions are evident. Cramped cockpit of a Whitley bomber, looking forward from the navigator’s position. Paratroopers exiting a ...
( Category:
World War II
May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Nigel Cave
Once at Bully Craters I discovered that the enemy were very close to our gallery. We were then on the defensive on this front, and had laid a small charge ...
( Category:
World War I
May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Tim Everson
SHIELDS Although helmets and armour were worn by warriors before and after the introduction of hoplite warfare, it was the hoplite shield that helped to bring about the change. From ...
( Category:
Greece
May 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-03 | Author:Roger Martin Du Gard [Gard, Roger Martin Du]
XI A GIGANTIC poster, flaunted on the boulevard, brought passers-by to a full stop before the picture-house. IN DARKEST AFRICA TRAVELS AMONGST THE SAVAGE TRIBES OF THE INTERIOR “It doesn’t ...
( Category:
Coming of Age
May 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-06 | Author:Toland, John [Toland, John]
Here, I felt, all were my brothers, not merely in a figurative sense, but literally as sons of the same Mother Asia. Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Manchukuoan, Filipino, Burmese, Indian—Asiatics all, ...
( Category:
Japan
May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:John Toland [Toland, John]
Gregory Boyington Early on the morning of February 7, Sandell took up a P-40 with a new tail assembly. He wanted to test it before anybody flew it into combat. ...
( Category:
United States
May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Carver [Tom Carver]
11. IT WAS A CLEAR night with a full moon. They walked for six miles, guided by the sound of goods trains shunting through the darkness. Richard had decided to ...
( Category:
World War II
May 6,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-27 | Author:John Toland [Toland, John]
2. The deteriorating situation in the east was also bringing about a deterioration in the personal relations between Hitler and his commander of that front. As Guderian and Major Freytag ...
( Category:
World War II
May 6,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:Robert F. Dorr [Dorr, Robert F.]
September 8, 1944 Minus Ernst Heinkel himself, the company bearing his name wanted a second chance—following its near success with the Heinkel He 280—to get an operational jet into service. ...
( Category:
History
May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-29 | Author:Grehan, John & Mace, Martin
The Cassino Position. I have already described the Liri valley as the gateway to Rome and alluded to the strength of the defences of the gate. A description of the ...
( Category:
World War II
May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeremy Scahill
Stating that 75 percent of operations in the region were strikes and that “kill operations significantly reduce the intelligence available from detainees and captured material,” the study recommended an expansion ...
( Category:
Conventional
May 4,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-01 | Author:John Warry
■ Hannibal’s Victories Publius Cornelius Scipio, consul in 218 BC, having dispatched his own army into Spain under the command of his brother Gnaeu, returned with exemplary speed to North ...
( Category:
Greece
May 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-01 | Author:Paul A. Rahe
CHAPTER 7 Salamis A man, a Greek, coming from the Athenian host, Told your son Xerxes these things: That when dusk arrives and, then, black night, The Hellenes would not ...
( Category:
Greece
May 2,2016 )
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