Military
epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Ian F. Beckett

When Rommel returned to the headquarters of the newly renamed Deutsch-Italienische Panzerarmee on the evening of 25 October, he was confronted with a mass of bad news. 15th Panzer Division’s ...
( Category: World War II October 9,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-02 | Author:Craig Cabell

Chapter 14 Continuing the Good Work ‘The radio sets hauled into France by the agents for the British Special Operations Executive during the Second World War were a nightmare by ...
( Category: Great Britain October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ian W. Toll [Toll, Ian W.]

TWO PARALLEL PACIFIC CAMPAIGNS, north and south of the equator, now had the imprimatur of the Allied high command. But Nimitz did not yet possess the sea or carrier air ...
( Category: Japan October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Max Wallace [Wallace, Max]

Information has been received that on or about July 11, 1940 Dr. Gerhart Alois Westrick, Commercial attaché of the German Embassy Washington, D.C., conferred with Mr. Henry Ford of Detroit, ...
( Category: World War II October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Alan Moorehead [Moorehead, Alan]

Not very practical for men campaigning through the jungle perhaps; but a good regimen for camp. I heard no one suggest that the Japanese soldier looked unfit. For a few ...
( Category: World War II October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-24 | Author:Kurowski, Frank

When Oberst Utz entered Chania around 1700 hours, the mayor of the city officially surrendered the city to him and requested that he spare the city’s citizens. Utz responded in ...
( Category: World War II October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-13 | Author:Frischauer, Willi [Frischauer, Willi]

Chapter XIII WAR London was under a hail of German bombs; I escaped from the falling shrapnel of the barrage into King’s Cross Underground Station, where hundreds of people patiently ...
( Category: World War II October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-30 | Author:Bruno Sutkus

23 Authenticated copy of telex, dated 5 September 1944, from Armeegruppe Heinrici, signed by C-in-C Generaloberst Heinrici, congratulating Sutkus on his fifty first success and awarding him fourteen days' special ...
( Category: Veterans October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:David Wragg

SEIZURE! On 30 June, the Admiralty received a copy of a message telegraphed from the French Admiralty to Admiral Odend‘hal at Portsmouth, advising him that the Italians had permitted the ...
( Category: Great Britain October 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:Alex Kershaw [Kershaw, Alex]

FOURTEEN THE COUP: JULY 20, 1944 KLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG, a tall and handsome thirty-seven-year-old German colonel, stood alone in a bathroom inside Adolf Hitler’s Prussian headquarters—the so-called Wolf’s Lair. It ...
( Category: European October 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 1999-09-20 | Author:Paul Bracken [Bracken, Paul]

NATIONALISM: THE “HOT” SIDE OF ASIAN DEFENSE Giving atomic missiles to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards is not like deploying jets in the British air force. An irrational politics of rage ...
( Category: Asian September 21,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Michael Dobbs

The cheers of the crowds massed outside 10 Downing Street and along Whitehall were ringing in his ears, but Winston Churchill found it difficult to share the popular elation. The ...
( Category: World War II September 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-28 | Author:Gary

Seydlitz is launched, 30 March 1912. Therefore, the most economical cruising speed would be 12kts giving a range of 5,807nm. These values correspond to the trials draught. Vibrations were low ...
( Category: World War I September 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Peter Dornan

C H A P T E R E L E V E N Operation AVALANCHE The war was not going well for the Italians. On 25 July 1943, the Fascist ...
( Category: World War II September 15,2015 )