epub |nld | 2003-12-31 | Author:Clive Lawton [Lawton, Clive]

De gevolgen van de overgave Japanse legerleiders waren echt geschokt en volstrekt verbaasd toen hun land zich overgaf. Maar veel burgers legden zich neer bij de nederlaag, mede omdat een ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Wendy Lower

I would never have committed theft. I know that one is not supposed to do that. In the bad times [prewar depression years] I was a saleswoman, and I had ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Keegan, John [Keegan, John]

GALLIPOLI The Dardanelles, which separates Europe from Asia, is a passage thirty miles long, at its narrowest less than a mile wide, leading from the Mediterranean into the landlocked Sea ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-10-20 | Author:Alexander Rose

Migraine-inducing it might have been, but Roosevelt adored the Springfield Model 1903. So pleased was he with it that on November 17, 1903, just five months after the new service ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-02 | Author:Xiaobing Li

Border Conflicts and the Cultural Revolution  0 thing about this new appointment, Wei studied international relations, diplomacy, and the new republic’s foreign policy in Beijing.17 Shortly after accepting his ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-02 | Author:Eric H. Boehm [ERIC H. BOEHM]

ALFRED JOSEPH ARTHUR FORDANSKI and I were together all the years we lived illegally. We had known each other since childhood and had always been inseparable friends. Both of us ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-20 | Author:Norman Stone

Note on the Tsar’s Stavka33 The Tsar’s command was a largely formal affair: as Langlois said, ‘c’est à Alexéieff qu’on obéit, ou plutôt à qui on désobéit’. The Tsar was ...

epub |eng | | Author:Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski & William B. Feis

Rearmament for Hemispheric Defense After more than a decade of limiting its armed forces through international agreement and unilateral fiscal action, the United States in 1933 began to rearm. The ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Brad D. Lookingbill [Lookingbill, Brad D.]

Remember the Maine Over the course of the nineteenth century, the Cuban struggle for independence attracted American attention. While an expatriate living in New York, José Martí became a symbol ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Neil M. Heyman [Heyman, Neil M.]

GETTING CAPTURED Military men fell into the hands of the enemy in a variety of ways. Airmen shot down over hostile territory became captives if they survived a crash or ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Ben Thompson

* * * Even though his invasion of Russia went fubar, Charles XII was still badass because he was an emotionless automaton who didn’t register physical pain, only spoke when ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-11 | Author:Hugh McManners [McManners, Hugh]

RSM Johnny Muir Regimental Sergeant Major, Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars Hearing the rumble of the tanks some twenty miles away I realised we weren’t going to get the positions dug ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-09-02 | Author:Robert M. Edsel & Bret Witter [ EDSEL, ROBERT M.]

CHAPTER 27 George Stout with His Maps Verdun, France March 6, 1945 Monuments Man George Stout looked at the battered packages, one stamped “Received in Defective Condition” by the army ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Vasily Grossman

‘When Germans had pushed us right back to the Volga, their sub-machine-gunners were shouting: “Rus, glug-glug!” And we shouted back: “Hey, come here, you’re thirsty, aren’t you?”’13 Soldiers burned to ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Harry Turtledove [Turtledove, Harry]

Liu Han’s heart pounded as she approached the little scaly devils’ pavilion that so marred the beauty of the island in the midst of the lake in the Forbidden City. ...