Military
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Hastings, Max [Hastings, Max]

But Macpherson embodied the exact spirit that SHAEF had intended to send with the Jedburghs. He had no interest in clandestine life – he considered that his business was to ...
( Category: France December 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-12 | Author:Christopher Hale

Chapter Ten WEIRD BARBARITY ‘The veil has been torn aside and the naked city [of Lhasa] has been revealed in all its weird barbarity.’ – Colonel Sir Thomas H. Holdich, ...
( Category: Germany December 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Adam Tooze [Tooze, Adam]

17 Compliance in Asia At the signing ceremony on 28 June 1919 the Chinese were the only delegation to stay away. Since the first week of May the Versailles conference ...
( Category: World War I December 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Peter Longerich [Longerich, Peter]

Phase II: Women and children With Hitler’s instruction of 16 July and the decision in principle it indicated about the structure of the civil administration, the moment had come for ...
( Category: Germany December 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-24 | Author:John English [English, John]

Emmanuel Mounier, the French Catholic personalist and founder of Esprit, had taught Trudeau to “see, judge, act.” It was now the time to act. That summer, Trudeau began to encounter ...
( Category: Political December 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-02-26 | Author:Tooze, Adam [Tooze, Adam]

Source: M. Harrison, ‘Resource Mobilization for Workd War II’, Economic History Review (1988), 184 III Hitler’s dismissive views about the degeneracy of American society are well documented, but so is ...
( Category: General December 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2014-11-30 | Author:Ian Baxter

A photograph of SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Bothmann. Bothmann was the last commandant of the Chelmno extermination camp from 1942, and commander of the SS Special Detachment. Bothmann was responsible for the ...
( Category: Holocaust December 22,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Charles River Editors

Chapter 9: Midway’s Legacy The Americans had won a stunning victory at Midway, and it allowed for the U.S. not only to even up the crucial carrier numbers game but ...
( Category: World War II December 21,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Tom Clancy

THE ACHILLE LAURO STRIKE Carl Stiner resumes the account begun in the first chapter. It is Tuesday, October 8th, at the Sigonella NATO Base, Sicily: As soon as we arrived ...
( Category: United States December 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1995-11-01 | Author:Tom Clancy

On May 1st, 1960, over the farmlands of central Russia, a small air battle took place that forever changed the nature of air warfare. Almost 13 miles/21 kilometers in the ...
( Category: United States December 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1999-02-01 | Author:Tom Clancy

E-2C Hawkeye AEW aircraft on the deck of the USS George Washington (CVN-73). They generally parked alongside the island structure, on a spot called “the Hummer Hole.” JOHN D. GRESHAM ...
( Category: United States December 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1996-11-01 | Author:Tom Clancy

Walking forward, you enter a stowage area for vehicles of the embarked MEU (SOC). On this deck and the one below are HMMWVs, 5-ton trucks, M 198 155mm field howitzers, ...
( Category: Naval December 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Tom Clancy

After the war, I was to find out that John had been shielding me from an extraordinary emotional outburst from General Schwarzkopf during his morning update. He had—I have gathered ...
( Category: Iraq War December 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1994-11-01 | Author:Tom Clancy

A cutaway of the Bell Helicopter-Textron OH-58D Kiowa Warrior scout/attack helicopter. JACK RYAN ENTERPRISES LTD., BY LAURA ALPHER Unfortunately, because it had to carry out other urgent commitments, the Army ...
( Category: Engineering December 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-11-14 | Author:

The National Fire Service During the war, as part of the ARP, a NFS was formed. It was based on and grew out of the Auxiliary Fire Service originally formed ...
( Category: World War II December 19,2014 )