Military
epub |eng | 2015-08-09 | Author:Gareth Glover

The stallion was reputedly captured in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo and ownership soon transferred to a John Angerstein, the son of a City financier, whose superb art collection ...
( Category: Belgium May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Charles Whiting [Whiting, Charles]

Chapter Five – The Last Battle ‘Je starker der Sturm, desto kräftiger der Widerstand.’ (‘The stronger the storm, the mightier the resistance.’) Dr Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister, April 1945 The ...
( Category: Holocaust May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Gerhard Koop & Klaus-Peter Schmolke

The following damage to the Tirpitz resulted from 16 hits or near-misses: a near miss to the starboard boiler room aft; a hit on ‘B’ turret; a hit on the ...
( Category: Ships May 2,2016 )
epub | | 2011-11-18 | Author:Fry, Helen

Would you like to return to Hitler, who may think again whether it would not after all be possible to put to some use what is vermin in his eyes, ...
( Category: World War II May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Sidney Toy

Plan of Sherborne Castle CHAPELS The chapel held an important place in the life of the castle. In many cases it was included within the keep, as described above. When ...
( Category: Strategy April 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Joseph Mark Scalia [Scalia Mark Joseph]

Commanding the naval contingent to Japan was forty-eight-year-old Gerhard Falcke, a naval construction engineer and electrical welding expert. Upon the conclusion of preliminary POW interrogations, the ONI assessed Falcke as ...
( Category: Japan April 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Nigel Jones [Jones, Nigel]

General Hellmuth Stieff. Hitler at the presentation of new field uniforms, with Stieff in the middle, early summer 1944. Tresckow instantly recognised, on meeting the maimed young colonel, that Stauffenberg ...
( Category: World War II April 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-17 | Author:George Hicks

As in many war crimes trials, the court proceedings essentially became a simple ratification of the findings of earlier investigations. They were in any case something of a legal hybrid, ...
( Category: World War II April 29,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Miranda Seymour

PART TWO From Versailles to the Verge of War (1919–40) 18 LOVE AMONG THE RUINS (1919–23) The challenge facing the modest and quietly spoken Friedrich Ebert as the first president ...
( Category: European April 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-28 | Author:Daniel F. F. Harrington

CHAPTER 10 “Lieber Pomm als ‘Frau komm!’ ” In addition to being a diplomatic struggle between East and West, the Berlin blockade was a political competition conducted in the streets ...
( Category: World War II April 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:Katie Stossel

The four soldiers mentioned in the two extracts above had also been detailed to defend the hospital, together with most of the patients who were fit enough to handle their ...
( Category: South Africa April 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-18 | Author:Schranck, David

15 July 10th on the Northern Salient See Map 6 The Germans were stopped far short of cutting the Orel-Kursk railroad line but Model did not have reserves to make ...
( Category: World War II April 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-29 | Author:Charles River Editors [Editors, Charles River]

Chapter 7: Preparing for the Battle of Stalingrad “If I do not get the oil of Maikop and Grozny then I must finish this war.” – Adolf Hitler By the ...
( Category: World War II April 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Sears, Stephen W.

The savage mauling of the Ploesti raiders was not an isolated incident. Barely two weeks later, the Luftwaffe delivered a second staggering blow at the AAF. Thus began the autumn ...
( Category: World War II April 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Doherty, Richard

Notes 1. Belogi & Guglielmi, op. cit., p.142; Jackson, op. cit., pp.267–8; Blaxland, op. cit., pp.259–60. 2. NA, WO170/5059, war diary 2/5 Queen’s. 3. Blaxland, p.259. 4. NA, WO170/5060, war ...
( Category: World War II April 27,2016 )