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. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Beevor, Antony [Beevor, Antony]

Almost from the start, Churchill had great hopes of turning European discontent under Nazi occupation into outright revolt. In May 1940, he had appointed Dr Hugh Dalton, a well-off socialist, ...

mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

mobi |pt | 2012-02-21 | Author:Dictionary of World History

Back - New Search Koryo A Korean kingdom that gave its name to the whole country. From 986 its kings ruled a united Korea from their Chinese-style capital, Kaesong. Chinese ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nesbo, Jo [Nesbo, Jo]

14 MASSEY FERGUSON I CAUTIOUSLY POKED my head around the side of the outhouse and looked towards the cabin. The windowpanes were black and gave nothing away. So he hadn’t ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Christopher Robbins

PICTURES Gen. Vang Pao, who first saw combat with the French at the age of thirteen, led the CIA-trained and -financed Meo guerrillas throughout the war until the end. (Pic: ...

epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mark Mazzetti [Mazzetti, Mark]

12: THE SCALPEL’S EDGE “We’ll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours.” —President Ali Abdullah Saleh The meeting was set up for a surrender, a symbolic gesture of peace ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-08-30 | Author:Beevor, Antony [Beevor, Antony]

8. A rather larger Lulu Knipper, with Olga (behind),Ada and Lev on Konstantin’s lap. 9. The Cherry Orchard, with Vasily Kachalov as Trofimov and Olgal Knipper-Chekhova as Ranyevskaya. 10. Konstantin ...

mobi, epub, pdf |pt | 2010-08-15 | Author:Sebastian Junger

We drive into the KOP late that afternoon, our destroyed Humvee chained to the one ahead of us and getting dragged through the mud like some kind of stubborn farm ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Soul Deep

Chapter Sixteen Before she could do more than gasp, Kiowa lifted her in his arms, his lips coming down on hers, his tongue pushing demandingly into her mouth as he ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Coffey, Patrick [Coffey, Patrick]

Truman’s decision to press ahead with the hydrogen bomb did not make building it possible. It changed neither nuclear physics’ principles nor physicists’ understanding of them. Teller’s “classic Super” consisted ...