Military
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-05-01 | Author:Cornelius Ryan

Thirty miles away Lieutenant Commander Heinrich Hoffmann, in the lead E-boat of his 5th Flotilla, saw a strange, unreal fog blanketing the sea ahead. As Hoffmann watched, a single plane ...
( Category: World War II June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:William O. Darby

From there Major Dammer and the battalion went south over the hill to Porto Empedocle. For a three-mile stretch, row upon row of vineyards sloped gracefully towards the sea. The ...
( Category: Veterans June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-05-04 | 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 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-07 | Author:Nigel West [Nigel West]

Seven messages later she reported: Much maritime activity last few days. Two big convoys of battleships and transports left port 15th and 19th for Greece carrying soldiers who mostly wore ...
( Category: Middle Eastern June 8,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Philip Nord

PART III DEATH COMES TO THE REPUBLIC CHAPTER 5 ARMISTICE France’s Chamber of Deputies and Senate met in joint session on 10 July. The setting was Vichy, a spa town ...
( Category: European June 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-09 | Author:Emma Craigie & Jonathan Mayo [Craigie, Emma & Mayo, Jonathan]

In his diary the politician Harold Nicolson notes the response of Mrs Grove, his London housekeeper, to the news of the deaths of Mussolini and Clara Petacci. Mrs Groves thinks ...
( Category: World War II June 7,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ernest Hemingway

“A Good Country” (from Green Hills of Africa) It is easier to keep well in a good country by taking simple precautions than to pretend that a country which is ...
( Category: Hunting June 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Joseph H. Alexander [Alexander, Joseph H.]

Marine Corps Historical Center In the end, victory was achieved at Okinawa by well-trained assault troops on the ground, like this Marine flamethrower operator and his watchful rifleman. At this ...
( Category: Naval June 5,2015 )
epub |ara, eng | 2015-04-23 | Author:Charles Bracelen Flood

Near the end of the war, the French general Robert Nivelle asked Nungesser, “Lieutenant, can you tell me by what miracle of tactics you have managed to bring down so ...
( Category: World War I June 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-12 | Author:Farley Mowat

PART III And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan. And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid Its bruises in the earth, but crawled no ...
( Category: Memoirs June 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Bernard B. Fall [Fall, Bernard B.]

This entailed faster traveling, less roadside security and greater convoy discipline, but, under the circumstances, Barrou felt that the game was worth the gamble, the more so as Mobile Group ...
( Category: France June 4,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Brooks, Vernon B. [Brooks, Vernon B.]

SHENSTONE Looks stunned. Thank you very much for this tremendous offer! I am most honoured! I will study the best way to do this when I have details of the ...
( Category: Aviation June 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-31 | Author:Hedges, Chris [Hedges, Chris]

Chapter 8 DYING How will I die? Most combat wounds result in the loss of too much blood. Had you made it to old age, you might have had enough ...
( Category: Conventional June 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-14 | Author:Chris Hedges

Chapter Seven The New Class To tell men that they are equal has a certain sentimental appeal. But this appeal is small compared with that made by a propaganda that ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State June 4,2015 )