Military
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Jeff Shaara [Shaara, Jeff]

“There. To the right of that pair of trees. Right at the crest.” Dana looked through field glasses of his own, said, “Yes, I see it. You certain, sir?” “Pretty ...
( Category: Military August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Herodotus & Carolyn Dewald & Robin Waterfield

It was the conjunction of all these events that made the Argives afraid. Under these circumstances they decided to make use of the enemy’s crier—that is, to copy the Lacedaemonians ...
( Category: Greece August 18,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Alistair Horne

Chapter 14 The Break-Out 15 May If our tanks are distinctly superior to those of the enemy, our fighters dominate perhaps even more the enemy air force. Le Temps, 16 ...
( Category: France August 14,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-06 | Author:Alistair Horne

Worst of all was the lot of the stretcher-bearers, which usually fell — until the supply was used up — to the regimental musicians. The two-wheeled carts that comprised the ...
( Category: World War I August 14,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-04 | Author:Alistair Horne

Bon canon, mais ayant un peu trop de recul…2 Washburne wrote, ‘Trochu is dethroned, having remained long enough to injure the cause’, and later added that he had ‘proved himself ...
( Category: France August 14,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Malcolm Potts

Civilians and Combatants Sometimes, the ingroup mentality of honor and chivalry we encountered in chapter 3 tempers the outgroup dehumanization of the enemy. In 690 B.C., after capturing Jerusalem, the ...
( Category: Biological & Chemical August 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:John Boyko [Boyko, John]

CHICAGO The American peace movement, spearheaded by the anti-Lincoln machinations of Thompson and the Copperheads, had sputtered as the Union made successful military advances in 1863, but it was revived ...
( Category: Civil War July 31,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Chantelle Taylor

Me, Sgt Chantelle Taylor, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, 2008; my final tour The Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders (5 Scots) a ‘multiple’ of fighting men also known as a platoon minus. The ...
( Category: Military July 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Ron Lock

Jubilant Boers wade the Tugela to carry off the abandoned British guns. (With the Flag to Pretoria) A Boer ‘Long Tom’, drawn by oxen, on the way to besiege Ladysmith. ...
( Category: Great Britain July 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Deighton, Len

Lambert knew the way from Warley to the coastal assembly points as he did the one from his billet to the Mess. Usually he flew straight to the assembly point ...
( Category: Military July 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-08 | Author:Blood, Tears & Folly [Blood, Tears & Folly]

Chapter 16 QUARTERMASTER’S NIGHTMARE Victory is a mirage in the desert created by a long war. CRETE GAVE A GREAT NAME; Africa gave a greater. The words of the Roman ...
( Category: World War II July 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Len Deighton [Deighton, Len]

17 July This fact was demonstrated on a miserable day of rain and cloud when twelve Spitfires of 64 Squadron flying out of Kenley were 'bounced' off Beachy Head. The ...
( Category: England July 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-07-14 | Author:Porch Douglas [Douglas, Porch]

The Second South African (Boer) War is regarded as the quintessential cavalry war, and in many respects it was, at least in its final stages. But it is useful to ...
( Category: Military July 25,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-05-04 | Author:Ernst Jünger & Michael Hofmann

These idyllic positions have the one drawback that one's superior officers like to visit them, which is a great dampener to the cosiness of trench life. That said, my left ...
( Category: World War I July 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Warren, James A. [Warren, James A.]

PHASE TWO Giap renewed the attack at 1700 on March 30, when the 312th and the 316th jumped off from their trenches to seize five key hills within strongpoints Dominique ...
( Category: Strategy July 20,2014 )