Military
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-02-23 | Author:The Greatest Generation [Generation, The Greatest]

Martha Settle Putney Her all-black unit of medical technicians was to be housed near Gardner General Hospital, not too far from Chicago’s tony Lake Shore Drive. The Army had built ...
( Category: United States November 19,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-08-21 | Author:Khan, Yasmin

15 Scorched Earth Ironically, 1943 was a year that saw little fighting for Indian and Allied soldiers in South Asia. Divisions fought in Sicily and in Naples but in India ...
( Category: India November 18,2015 )
epub |ara | 2015-09-19 | Author:Adolf Hitler [Hitler, Adolf]

VOLUME : II —————————— THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST MOVEMENT Chapter 1 Weltanschauung and Party ___________________________ On February 24th, 1920, the first great mass meeting under the auspices of the new movement ...
( Category: Fascism November 18,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Kitchen

CHAPTER ELEVEN DEFEAT SPEER INSPECTED THE Western Front from 26 September to 1 October 1944.1 He travelled with his adjutant, Manfred von Poser, Willy Liebel and his assistant, SS-Standartenführer Karl ...
( Category: Germany November 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Tony Booth

Chapter 10 Raising the Dead Although Cammell Laird received several letters from funeral directors offering their services for the burial arrangements, many more enquiries came from people wanting to enter ...
( Category: Great Britain November 15,2015 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-10-19 | Author:Willink, Jocko & Babin, Leif [Willink, Jocko]

“Frogman on the roof,” was the radio call that let friendly forces know SEALs were on the high ground. Here, SEAL machine gunner Marc Lee engages insurgents with lethal machine ...
( Category: United States November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:Bruce Gamble [Gamble, Bruce]

Hours before the carrier strikes commenced, “Tip” Merrill’s Task Force 39 had bombarded both Buka and Bonis with 2,700 six-inch and five-inch shells. Leaving the two airdromes in shambles, the ...
( Category: Japan November 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |nld | 2012-02-05 | Author:Joseph F. Enright [Enright, Joseph F.]

7. Optimism At 0215 on Wednesday, November 29, 1944, the Imperial Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano steamed along the course of 275 degrees—almost directly west—eight hours plus into her maiden voyage. ...
( Category: Naval November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Adam Makos & Marcus Brotherton [Makos, Adam]

CHAPTER ELEVEN THE DAYS OF HEAT AND FURY Peleliu The second day on Peleliu, September 16, 1944… STERLING MACE The next morning you see shapes of guys walking around. You ...
( Category: Veterans November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:John Sadler

As the General himself subsequently conceded: ‘We for our part were mostly preoccupied by seaborne landings, not by the threat of air landings.’13 It was this misunderstanding and Freyberg’s lack ...
( Category: Military November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 1975-11-11 | Author:Nicholas Rankin [Nicholas Rankin]

It was a dramatic day in European history. At 3 a.m., Germany launched Fall Gelb (Operation yellow), its offensive in the West, a simultaneous land and air attack on the ...
( Category: Military November 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Graham Farmelo [Farmelo, Graham]

1 JULY TO 5 AUGUST 1945 Churchill says yes to dropping the Bomb ‘If the Russians had got [the Bomb first], it would have been the end of civilisation . ...
( Category: Nuclear November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-15 | Author:Bohdan Hryniewicz

14 Evacuation to the Centre, 24–29 August 1944 24 August. I was with what remained of our battalion in the Spiess building behind the town hall. It was a large ...
( Category: World War II November 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-11-11 | Author:Bing West

“I felt good about that,” White said later. “It had taken us a long time to work back and we had lost Lummis along the way. But we kept hanging ...
( Category: Vietnam War November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-20 | Author:Marie Coleman [Coleman, Marie]

THE GEOGRAPHY OF WAR The question of why certain young men joined the IRA is linked to the question of why the IRA was more active in certain areas of ...
( Category: European November 10,2015 )