Military
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-07-30 | Author:Nick Thomas

Sergeant R.C. Bolland No.185 Squadron Pilot Officer L. Cheek No.185 Squadron Group Captain Walter M. Churchill, DSO, DFC (flight leader) (Deputy AOC) Sergeant F.W. Clewley, RAAF No. 185 Squadron Sergeant ...
( Category: World War II September 4,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-05-02 | Author:Bob Carruthers

A German position at Fromelles, pre-1915. Trenches such as these were frequently knee-deep in water. The conditions in the water-logged frontline trenches near Fromelles were appalling, as this photgraph from ...
( Category: World War I September 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-05 | Author:Mulley. Clare [Mulley. Clare]

12: SWITCHING ALLEGIANCES For Christine, scrambling down the goat tracks that led away from the Vercors battleground towards the relative safety of Francis’s temporary base at Seyne-les-Alpes felt like a ...
( Category: World War II September 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-21 | Author:Mitch Peeke

Chapter Eight September 1940: Turning Point At first, the only noticeable change as August gave way to September, was in the English landscape. The ripening crops on the farms had ...
( Category: Aviation September 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-29 | Author:David Childs

Across the waters of Pamlico Sound, Lane began work on the first English fort to be built on mainland America. It was soon done, with work beginning on 27 July ...
( Category: Naval September 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Davies, Barry

Aircraft hijacking requires a knowledge of where to gain entry from the outside of an aircraft. The size of the aircraft involved and the number of passengers onboard will dictate ...
( Category: Martial Arts August 30,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:Michael Harris

THE GREATEST WEATHER-FORECASTING SYSTEM IN HISTORY MANY DAYS AFTER Cherokee, we were all assembled for an important announcement from Major Maxwell. We knew before he started that it would have ...
( Category: Military August 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-03 | Author:Corrigan, Gordon [Corrigan, Gordon]

Sir John Hawkwood. Painting by artist Paolo Uccello created in 1436, currently displayed at the Duomo in Florence, Italy. A highly competent military commander made redundant by Edward III after ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-23 | Author:Terence Wise

A miniature of Sir Geoffrey Luterell taken from the Luterell Psalter, written around 1340, illustrating the placing of charges on the right side of the trapper. Compare trapper, ailette, horse ...
( Category: Military August 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:McNamee, Colm [McNamee, Colm]

The English spent the night at Falkirk, and on the Sunday 23 June ‘after dinner’ they came within sight of the Torwood. They were anxious to reach Stirling Castle either ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:Cecil Lewis [Lewis, Cecil]

* In 1917 co-operative tactics in single-seater fighting were rudimentary. A combat was a personal matter. In a fight no pilot has time to watch others; he is too occupied ...
( Category: World War I August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Robert Gildea [Robert Gildea]

In a second letter, sent the same day, Frenay told Delestraint that though he might be the head of the Armée Secrète, he was a conventional military man with no ...
( Category: World War II August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Dick Couch

“THE GROUND WAR STARTS at 0400 hours,” said Lieutenant Tom Dietz. “Let’s go in and blow the shit out of the beach!” In the early morning hours of February 24, ...
( Category: Military August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cathryn J. Prince [Prince, Cathryn J.]

Even today, with full knowledge of the camps and the harsh penalties meted out to those who tried to escape, some in Switzerland still contend that the government winked at ...
( Category: Military August 23,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Victor Davis Hanson [Hanson, Victor Davis]

How to Take a Polis In an obscure fourth-century military treatise about protecting poleis from besieging armies and intriguers within the walls, a shadowy Greek author, Aeneas Tacticus, who may ...
( Category: Military August 20,2015 )