Military
epub |eng | 2015-10-03 | Author:George Psychoundakis

1. To Africa, that is. 2. A party. 3. An old revolutionary song against the Turks, dating from early in the last century. 4. Good-day. 5. In this case, a ...
( Category: Biographical April 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-15 | Author:John Garofolo [Garofolo, John]

Newly reinstated as a war correspondent, Dickey quickly set out to reestablish ties with the military. She actively promoted herself as the “Bayonet Border Reporter” and by her own account ...
( Category: Women in History April 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Michael Walzer

The last of these is particularly problematic, for in the conditions of guerrilla war it must often involve releasing prisoners, something most guerrillas are no doubt loath to do. Yet ...
( Category: History & Theory April 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-28 | Author:Lawrence Paterson

‘22/7/42: CF78, 0810 hours. Mastheads in sight…’ Out of the dawn, two mast tips emerged (above). At first they were thought to herald mercantile targets, before being positively identified as ...
( Category: Naval April 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-16 | Author:Stefan Waydenfeld

A model of the log raft we built to leave Kvasha The Uftyuga River from Kvasha to Krasnoborsk * In fact, the author was born in a clinic in the ...
( Category: Russia April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Terry Mort

Should the readers of your Journal in the States see these communications, they will understand that notwithstanding we are serving in the most God-forsaken country in the habitable globe, yet ...
( Category: State & Local April 14,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Rob Roy & Chris Lawson [Roy, Rob]

VINCENT: Who taught you? SAM: I don’t remember. That’s the second thing they teach you. In our case, feel free to remember Geoff as your teacher. And remember to trust ...
( Category: Decision Making April 13,2016 )
epub | | 2009-02-03 | Author:Mcraven, William H.

Notes 1. Charles Whiting, Skorzeny (New York: Ballantine, 1972), 17. 2. Glenn B. Infield, Skorzeny: Hitler’s Commando (New York: Military Heritage, 1981), 230. 3. Testimony of Otto Skorzeny at Nuremberg, ...
( Category: Strategy April 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-04-09 | Author:James R. Gaines

All through 1788, in each of the thirteen states, Americans debated the strengths and weaknesses of their new Constitution, whose agenda was in some ways identical to the one emerging ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

XVIII I rejoined the First Battalion in March, finding it in the line again, on the Somme. It was the primrose season. We went in and out of the Fricourt ...
( Category: Great Britain April 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Philip Kaplan

THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED The North Atlantic shipping lanes were the most dangerous places to be for the Allied merchantmen of the convoys early in World War Two. Later, ...
( Category: World War II April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 1998-04-07 | Author:Michael Gannon [Gannon, Michael]

The secret was out, and it appeared likely that the Germans would now neutralize the centimetric wavelength in the same way that Metox had neutralized the metric. But the Telefunken ...
( Category: World War II April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Peter Jacobs

Noor Inayat Khan’s report from SOE’s Finishing School at Beaulieu dated 21 May 1943. The report has been underlined and scrawled over with comments such as ‘Nonsense’ and ‘We don’t ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Preisler, Jerome; Sewell, Kenneth; [Jerome Preisler and Kenneth Sewell]

The cable goes on to detail some of the items of freight, with deletions that its U. S. Navy translator explains were made because they “enumerated only cargo numbers and ...
( Category: World War II April 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Carl P. LaVO [LaVO, Carl]

Going Home In mid-December, the Sculpin arrived off Truk, a foreboding group of fifty volcanic peaks bristling like ragged teeth raised above the horizon. Chappell moved in carefully, skirting dangerous ...
( Category: World War II April 8,2016 )