Military
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Greitens [Greitens, Eric]

The men at BUD/S wanted to be SEALs for a wide variety of reasons. Some were inspired by relatives, some were inspired by movies, some had played "special operations" video ...
( Category: Military June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Stephen Budiansky [Budiansky, Stephen]

A MONO THE inheritances left by Paul Hamilton to his successor was the ironic one of having finally persuaded Congress to approve the first new warship construction in a decade. ...
( Category: Naval June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-26 | Author:Victor Davis Hanson

LEGENDS OF LEPANTO More than 15,000 Christian slaves were freed at Lepanto and more than two hundred galleys and nearly one hundred lesser craft were mostly destroyed or lost to ...
( Category: Military June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marcus Brotherton

Earl McClung The Island meant patrols. It was strictly a holding position. The Germans were across the river on the high ground, so you didn’t move in the daylight. If ...
( Category: Veterans June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-11-15 | Author:Winston Churchill [Churchill, Winston]

The Hinge of Fate 606 That evening we attended the official dinner at the Kremlin, where about forty people, including several of the military commanders, members of Politburo, and other ...
( Category: World War II June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-18 | Author:Lyn Macdonald

Able Seaman J. S. Bentham, Benbow Bn., 1st Brig., Royal Naval Div. It was an elderly lady who got into our compartment and tackled us and did she feel small ...
( Category: World War I June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-27 | Author:Stephan Talty [Talty, Stephan]

After a few hours of exchanging gunfire with the Chinese at the transport station, Soepa realized the PLA was winning. “Their bullets were finding their mark and many were killed ...
( Category: China June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ingrid Von Oelhafen

TWELVE | NUREMBERG ‘Lebensborn was responsible, amongst other things, for the kidnapping of foreign children for the purpose of Germanisation … numerous Czech, Polish, Yugoslav and Norwegian children were taken ...
( Category: World War II June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:George Veith [Veith, George]

“MAINTAIN A FIRM GRIP ON ROUTE 1, NO MATTER WHAT THE COST” In Saigon, Wolfgang Lehmann watched Danang’s growing refugee problem with concern. On 18 March he cabled Washington and ...
( Category: Vietnam War June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-29 | Author:Geoffrey Bennett [Bennett, Geoffrey]

* For details of the battlecruisers of both sides involved in this battle see Appendix E on p. 173. APPENDIX E Particulars of Battlecruisers at the Dogger Bank Battle 9 ...
( Category: World War I June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 1949-01-01 | Author:Fitzroy MacLean [MacLean, Fitzroy]

Chapter VIII New Horizons AFTER the kidnapping of General Zahidi, I settled down to the more orthodox task of assembling my new detachment and training them in S.A.S. methods. As ...
( Category: World War II June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-11 | Author:Frances Osborne [Osborne,Frances]

Toby and his “wives,” Chefoo, 1928. Lilla is on the left. The waterfront, Shanghai As Toby was saluted into the Shanghai harbor on the prow of a battleship, Ada and ...
( Category: World War II June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Barker

16 April 1945 My dear private and family matter, I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. ...
( Category: World War II June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:James Hamilton-Paterson [Hamilton-Paterson, James]

* For all the political rhetoric in Westminster about the ‘Fokker Scourge’ of late 1915, the skies above the battlefields of Belgium and France were often remarkably empty of aircraft ...
( Category: Aviation June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 1998-06-11 | Author:Christopher R. Browning [Browning, Christopher R.]

Observing the killing from a greater distance was SSPF Sporrenberg, who circled above the camp in a Fieseler Storch airplane. Poles watched from the rooftops.28 On the same day and ...
( Category: Holocaust June 12,2015 )