Military
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:John Arquilla

12 Emir Dynamite: T. E. Lawrence © Bettmann/Corbis The idea of sending off a handful of one’s own soldiers to train, guide, and sometimes lead far off but friendly forces ...
( Category: Strategy January 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Peter Padfield [Peter Padfield]

Eventually a compromise was achieved whereby Clauberg was given facilities within the new camp at Auschwitz–Birkenau, closer to his clinic than Ravensbrück was, where he experimented on young married Jewesses ...
( Category: Germany January 26,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:Lawrence, T. E. [Lawrence, T. E.]

CHAPTER LX VESSELS steamed up the Gulf of Akaba. Feisal landed, and with him Jaafar, his staff, and Joyce, the fairy godmother. There came the armoured cars, Goslett, Egyptian labourers ...
( Category: World War I January 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Yarborough, Tom [Yarborough, Tom]

CHAPTER 7 STANDING UP IN A HAMMOCK 1 October 1970: A Rustic FAC went down in Cambodia. The Head Covey told us that the O-2 was hit by automatic weapons ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-22 | Author:Paul Roland [Roland, Paul]

‘Let those who read this verse ponder its meaning Let the common crowd and the unlearned leave it alone All of them – Idiot Astrologers and Barbarians – keep off ...
( Category: Holocaust January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:TIME-LIFE BOOKS

Four Confederate soldiers stood in the battery at Fort Fisher. The unique fortress was built from earth instead of brick, and this enabled it to better withstand the shock of ...
( Category: Civil War January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-16 | Author:W. Douglas Fisher

Dr. George I. Lythcott (courtesy Michael J. Lythcott). The Lythcott brothers arrived after the riots, but the city’s stigma was there. Many other professional African Americans had left Tulsa by ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-21 | Author:Harold M. Tanner

LIN BIAO’S HESITATION The feasibility of Chiang’s plan of action can be gauged by Lin Biao’s reaction: it nearly caused him to call off the attack on Jinzhou. To understand ...
( Category: China January 22,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:Jonathan North & Louis Joseph Vionnet

Smolensk Again On the 8th we camped close to a few barns which had escaped the fires. The emperor’s wagons were halted here, some eighteen miles from Smolensk. I now ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2002-05-16 | Author:Russell Martin & Oliver Wyman [Martin, Russell & Wyman, Oliver]

Fearing that The Times might not publish it, Steer copied his original telegram to the Labour Member of Parliament for Derby, Philip Noel-Baker, urging him to use it in the ...
( Category: Criticism January 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-17 | Author:Henry Stevens [Stevens, Henry]

Each internal vortex is running in the same direction. If two conducting wires, for instance, are sending electricity in the same direction, their moving magnetic fields attract each other. Each ...
( Category: World War II January 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-17 | Author:Will Fey [Fey, Will]

The retreat continued into Belgium. German military police at the border inspected anyone who wanted to cross. Only units with permits were allowed to pass. The remains of the units ...
( Category: World War II January 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-14 | Author:John Mosier [Mosier, John]

The two armies were evolving in different directions. A Red Army mechanized and armored corps had a tank strength that was hardly equal to anyone else’s armored division, while for ...
( Category: World War II January 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-14 | Author:Eugenia Maresch [Maresch, Eugenia]

c. The Propaganda Pamphlet On 2 June 1943, the PCK Chairman was informed that the German Propaganda Department was thinking of writing a pamphlet about Katyn; the proposition came with ...
( Category: Great Britain January 16,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Andrey Pogozhev

In the hospital block the main common hall occupied one-half of the partitioned first floor. This space was divided into five segments, each one known as a ‘pentka’ – the ...
( Category: Holocaust January 14,2016 )