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Defense of the Third Reich 1941-45 by Steven Zaloga
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Zaloga

This view shows an LS-Hochbunker built on Kornerstrasse in Hagen in 1941 intended to protect against 250kg (500lb) bombs. Although designed to accommodate 600 people, on the night of March ...
( Category: Europe April 24,2017 )
Chinese Walled Cities 221 BC-AD 1644 by Stephen Turnbull
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Turnbull

Zhang Bi: a fortified city in miniature Out of all the survivors of the thousands of fortified towns and cities that once dotted the Chinese countryside few are more fascinating ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 24,2017 )
Loud and Clear by Iftach Spector
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Iftach Spector

I WAS PRACTICING disobedience. The rules of my life began to formulate inside me, for now in secrecy and soon loud and clear: You, the operational commander, are responsible to ...
( Category: Military April 21,2017 )
Fu-go by Ross Coen
epub |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Ross Coen [Coen, Ross]

7 Canada On January 20, 1945, shortly after the third confirmed balloon incident in Canada, Brigadier General Maurice Pope sent a priority memorandum to William Lyon Mackenzie King, the nation’s ...
( Category: Asia April 21,2017 )
How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History by Erik Durschmied
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-14 | Author:Erik Durschmied

Queen Victoria, when told about ‘Black Week’, replied: ‘There is no one depressed in this house. We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.’ Sir ...
( Category: Engineering April 15,2017 )
Byzantine Wars by John Haldon
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2008-10-31 | Author:John Haldon [Haldon, John]

Sa’if ad-Daulah’s Raid of 956 The raid in question was launched in early spring of that year, intended as a booty-collecting expedition, as an attack on the Roman frontier provinces, ...
( Category: Military April 15,2017 )
The Imagineers of War by Sharon Weinberger
epub |eng | 2017-03-13 | Author:Sharon Weinberger

CHAPTER 15 Top Secret Flying Machines On Christmas Day 1979, Soviet airborne forces landed in Kabul, paving the way for the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. In Iran, a onetime ...
( Category: United States April 14,2017 )
Atrocities by Matthew White
epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Matthew White

Second Artois May 9–June 16, 1915 50,000 3 miles Nothing Gallipoli February 19, 1915–January 19, 1916 125,00013 2 miles Zilch Somme July 1–November 18, 1916 306,00014 8 miles Zip Verdun ...
( Category: Military April 10,2017 )
Strategy by Richard Bailey
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Richard Bailey

CHAPTER EIGHT Spacepower and the Strategist M. V. SMITH In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. —Attributed to Yogi Berra Yogi Berra, the ...
( Category: Military April 10,2017 )
Operation Kronstadt by Harry Ferguson
epub |eng | 2012-04-20 | Author:Harry Ferguson [FERGUSON, HARRY]

11 Gefter Paul lay in Michael Semashko’s tomb and took stock of his situation. He could hear the deep boom of naval gunfire somewhere out in the Gulf. Sadly, Paul ...
( Category: Espionage April 7,2017 )
Reich by James Lucas
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:James Lucas

PART THREE Military Perspectives In a game of chess, a logical, intellectual game, there comes a point where one player will cry ‘checkmate’. That player has manoeuvred his opponent into ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 6,2017 )
Assault in Norway by Gallagher Thomas
epub |eng | | Author:Gallagher, Thomas

11 THE MEN HAD ALREADY DESTROYED EVERYTHING OF FOREIGN ORIGIN THAT might betray them: empty raisin, cookie, milk, and ration tins, the wrappings of fruit, chocolate, and pemmican bars, used ...
( Category: Military April 6,2017 )
The Wages of Guilt by Ian Buruma
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Ian Buruma [Buruma, Ian]

TOKYO The law court in Nuremberg looks solid—indestructible almost—in a city that lacks solidity. The restored medievalism of the old town center gives the city a stagey atmosphere, as though ...
( Category: World War II April 6,2017 )
The Battle of Fromelles by Roger Lee
epub |eng | | Author:Roger Lee

German map showing plotted location of British artillery firing during the battle. Map supplied as part of a report by Peter Barton on his research on behalf of the Australian ...
( Category: World War I April 6,2017 )
Fetch the Devil by Clint Richmond
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Clint Richmond

During the early days of the investigation, Sheriff Fox was led to believe that Frome was little more than a glorified salesman, albeit for one of America’s largest explosives manufacturing ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2017 )

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