Military
epub |eng | | Author:Max Hastings

FOURTEEN Out of the Desert In 1943, to Winston Churchill and to many British, Russian and American people, it sometimes seemed that the Western Allies spent more time talking than ...
( Category: World War II November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:Neryl Joyce [Joyce, Neryl]

At one o’clock we drove over to the commissioners’ workplace. Stu and I walked into the building, with an extra suit of body armour for Number Three. As we strode ...
( Category: Women November 24,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

‘Portrait of Count Jean-Baptiste Drouet d’Erlon, Marshal of France’, by Ary Scheffer: d’Erlon’s superior numbers and crack troops came within a whisker of breaking Wellington’s army. Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte, ...
( Category: Naval November 24,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Harold Holzer

Suspected of leaking the president’s 1861 annual message to the Herald: Mary Lincoln (left) and her friend “Chevalier” Henry Wikoff (right). But Lincoln surely knew who bore the principal guilt ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-23 | Author:Jacky Hyams [Jacky Hyams]

CHAPTER 6 LAURA’S STORY: AN ANGEL AND A ROSE ‘WE WERE TINY COGS IN A SECRET ARMY’ Laura Hardwick was born in Trimdon, County Durham, in 1921. She has the ...
( Category: World War II November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Harold Holzer

But Lincoln surely knew who bore the principal guilt for the scandal. When, late in September, the persistent “Chevalier” brazenly petitioned the president for a pass to accompany a naval ...
( Category: American Civil War November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-13 | Author:Glass, Charles [Glass, Charles]

TWENTY-THREE The Army is organized throughout for one single purpose—fighting. Psychology for the Fighting Man, p. 325 BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER 1944, the U.S. military in the European Theater ...
( Category: United States November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Snow

14 A tempest of dissatisfaction 28–29 August BY THE MORNING of 29 August Captain James Alexander Gordon was ready. His ships were at anchor on the seafront of Alexandria. He ...
( Category: State & Local November 24,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-02 | Author:Frank Lost [Lost, Frank]

According to Brazilian Simoni Renee Guerreiro Dias’s own investigations in her recent book Hitler in Brazil – His Life and His Death, he escaped to her country and not Argentina, ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-11 | Author:Joseph P. Farrell [Farrell, Joseph P.]

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:Oliver North & Joe Musser

MAJOR MICHAEL RYAN, USMC Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll 22 November 1943 1650 Hours Local I came on active duty as a Marine second lieutenant, a platoon leader, and we were ...
( Category: World War II November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Brunt

TOM PAULEY 28 “Selling is at least half of what I do. For the first time I see the appropriateness of the election process. It’s the best preparation there is ...
( Category: Political November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:William Manchester [MANCHESTER, WILLIAM]

Thus the rush of cataclysmic events came down to Tuesday, August 4, 1914, when at midnight Berlin time—11:00 P.M. in London—Grey’s ultimatum to Germany would expire. In Pear Tree Cottage, ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-25 | Author:Oliver North

The strip on the Isle of Vis, where Lt. McGovern landed his “Dakota Belle”—nicknamed for his bride, Eleanor—was less than half the length of a B-24 runway. For his skill ...
( Category: World War II November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Al Venter

The Israelis have been known to be indiscriminate in their use of artillery. More than 100 people – almost all of them civilians including large numbers of women and children ...
( Category: Journalists November 23,2014 )