Military
epub |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Adam Cruise

8 Northern Force FROM THE START, Botha believed the shortest and most direct route to Windhoek was from Swakopmund, just north of Walvis Bay. Against the general consensus of both ...
( Category: South Africa May 27,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Lindsay, Jack [Lindsay, Jack]

Chapter Eleven – Tenures, Fiefs, and Military Organization We now turn to a more detailed examination of what happened in England. Here we can see how a Norman takeover and ...
( Category: Great Britain May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-05-26 | Author:Anna Porter [Porter, Anna]

(22) Still Trading in Lives I had no confidence in Horthy or those around him. They were all lacking in courage… We had only one chance to gain time and ...
( Category: Holocaust May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-05-26 | Author:Whittell, Giles [Giles Whittell]

13 Over Here Several months after disembarking at Liverpool – possibly on 27 March 1943, but she was coy about it in her letters home out of respect for the ...
( Category: Aviation May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-05-26 | Author:Francis Gary Powers & Curt Gentry

FOUR USA One Reporters were watching all the major airports, but particularly Andrews Air Force Base, outside Washington, D.C. Possibly this was because it was here that President Kennedy had ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-26 | Author:C.H. Layman [Layman, C.H.]

Chapter 18 Foul Weather Defeats Them Wager Island, 15th December 1741. The 17 survivors set out in the two small boats to attempt the perilous crossing of the bay. Foul ...
( Category: Naval May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:R. H. Bruce Lockhart

BOOK IV “HISTORY FROM THE INSIDE” “HISTORY IS generally only the register of the crimes, the follies, and the mistakes of mankind.” Gibbon CHAPTER ONE OF THAT VOYAGE home to ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Michael Smith [Michael Smith]

By the end of 1941, the increase in the numbers of people had brought a dramatic improvement in the social life. Phoebe Senyard spent her first Christmas of the war ...
( Category: General May 27,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-26 | Author:Vogel, Steve [Vogel, Steve]

Yet of all Washington’s public buildings reminiscent of the classic style, The Pentagon is least imitative; and of all the structures modern in conception, it is the least self-consciously startling. ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Max Adams [Adams, Max]

9 Giddy with the multiplicities 1806–1808 Collingwood’s head was spinning too, and with good reason. In October 1805 he had been second-in-command to Nelson at a victory which was (and ...
( Category: France May 27,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-24 | Author:Duffy, Peter

CHAPTER TEN AND YOU BE CAREFUL I noticed the beautiful dog that was following you on 42nd Street yesterday. I was very interested in it and a friend of mine ...
( Category: World War II May 26,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Patrick Lindsay

We marched along the road in single file keeping to the right under cover of the hedge as much as possible – and about five minute intervals between platoons, till ...
( Category: France May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-09-03 | Author:Ben Macintyre

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Stowaway Spy CAPTAIN REGINALD SANDERSON Kearon, master of the merchant ship MV City of Lancaster, had spent his war being shot at by German torpedoes. He had taken ...
( Category: World War II May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-01 | Author:Clive Cussler [Cussler, Clive]

The Battle of Charleston. The Keokuk upper left, the Patupsco right, and the Weehawken center (Clive Cussler) The sinking of the Keokuk after she was struck by ninety-two Confederate shells ...
( Category: History May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Neal Bascomb [Bascomb, Neal]

" Three Saints, what is keeping you?" Admiral Krieger telegraphed to Vishnevetsky at 10:10 A.M., spotting his second in command's squadron heading toward Tendra Harbor without the Potemkin at its ...
( Category: Naval May 25,2015 )