Military
epub |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Holroyd, Jack & Langford, William [Holroyd, Jack]

16GW808 SMS Grosser Kurfurst. Kapitän Ernst Goette. 16GW809 SMS Markgraf. Kapitän Karl Seiferling. 16GW810 SMS Kronprinz. Kapitän Constanz Feldt. 16GW811 SMS Kaiser (flagship). Kapitän Walter von Keyserlingk. The three battleships, ...
( Category: Military November 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:George C. Daughan

On November 1 Byron reached Boston, hoping to engage d’Estaing. The very next day, however, another nor’easter struck, scattering Byron’s fleet again. Foul-Weather Jack just could not escape the dark ...
( Category: United States November 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Bruce M. Tyler

Chester C. Doherty (top row), first lieutenant colonel and assistant commandant of the School of Air Evacuation, and, from left to right, Captains Edwin McBride and John Horton and Maj. ...
( Category: State & Local November 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-03 | Author:Jameel Jaffer

As a people, as a nation, we cannot—and we must not—succumb to the temptation to set aside our laws and our values when we face threats to our security, including ...
( Category: Military November 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Williams, Susan [Williams, Susan]

17 A DEAD SHOT Once Bob Laxalt, the code officer, had been told by Hogue about the mine at Shinkolobwe, he started to notice that special arrangements were always made ...
( Category: Military November 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-09-26 | Author:Hamilton, William H.; Sasser, Charles W.;

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE CHINA BEACH WAS A twenty-mile stretch of white sand northeast of Da Nang extending into the blue waters of the South China Sea, only ninety miles from the ...
( Category: Veterans November 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Andrey Kurkov [Kurkov, Andrey]

Saturday 1 March First day of spring, but no one is thinking about that. We arrived in Lazarevka last night. On our way out of Kiev, the central traffic police ...
( Category: Human Rights September 17,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bill O'Reilly

20 NORTH FIELD TINIAN, MARIANA ISLANDS AUGUST 6, 1945 0130 HOURS The bringer of death sits in the front seat of a six-by-six army truck. Approaching the B-29 he personally ...
( Category: Military September 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Rubenstein

CHAPTER SIX A CHANCE FOR PEACE? American officials had long assumed that Stalin’s death would expose the fragility of his regime. As far back as February 1946, George Kennan advised ...
( Category: History & Theory September 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Greg Cashman

ROOTS OF WAR: LONG-TERM CAUSES Religion The conflict between India and Pakistan is often presented as a conflict between Hindus and Muslims, one that links religious rivalry with territorial identity. ...
( Category: History & Theory September 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Tim Cook

CHAPTER 24 “EDUCATED LARGELY BY OUR OWN MISTAKES” November 1917–March 1918 “The year 1917 has been a glorious year for the Canadian Corps,” wrote Sir Arthur Currie to William Hearst, ...
( Category: 20th Century September 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Tim Cook

CHAPTER 23 CREATING THE CORPS September 1915–March 1916 “The war keeps up its everlasting grind and everyone plods unrelentingly on,” wrote discouraged front-line officer Lieutenant F.G. Newton to friends at ...
( Category: Canada September 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Halberstam

Even in Kien Hoa Province the Vietcong forged a remarkable record. During a long period of time in 1962 and early 1963, when they were laying low militarily, they had ...
( Category: Military September 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Nettles, John [Nettles, John]

THE FREEMASONS They were prepared to fight, however, when the Germans, in accordance with Nazi theology, went gunning for the Freemasons. Again the impetus for this action came from the ...
( Category: Military August 26,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Coram

21 LEAVING CHINA Chennault’s genius for tactics and Scott’s genius for colorful leadership turned the Twenty-third into a fast-moving, nimble, and unpredictable combat organization that had an impact far out ...
( Category: World War II August 24,2016 )