Military
mobi |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Nancy Robinson Masters

Henry Knox The “Ox” of the Revolutionary War 1750-1806 He is too valuable to me. —General George Washington Henry Knox looked up from the manual of military strategy he was ...
( Category: Colonial Period May 28,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-10-09 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

3 Completing the arsenal of howitzers, guns, and mortars was the deadliest weapon of all – the one that had transformed warfare. The heavy, water-cooled Vickers machine gun and the ...
( Category: Canada May 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Pierre Berton

The Battle of Stoney Creek The American commander, Brigadier-General John Chandler, a former blacksmith, tavernkeeper and congressman, owes his appointment to political influence rather than military experience, of which he ...
( Category: Pre-Confederation May 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-09-25 | Author:Rising Sun Victorious: An Alternate History of the Pacific War [War, Rising Sun Victorious: An Alternate History of the Pacific]

Notes 1. For the purposes of this story, it is assumed that Lieutenant Commander Max Leslie of the Yorktown didn't find the Japanese carriers when Commander McCluskey turned toward Midway ...
( Category: Historical May 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-09 | Author:Paul Ham

From the surrounding hills the escapees looked back at the ‘jellyfish cloud’, billowing out to east and west, emitting a fierce light in ‘ever-changing shades’ of red, purple, blue and ...
( Category: World War II May 10,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2007-06-01 | Author:Gilstrap, John & Muse, Kurt [Gilstrap, John]

24 Carcel Modelo—Modelo Prison—was as famous in Panama as Sing-Sing is in the United States as a place of misery and perpetual torment. Located in the Chorrillo section of the ...
( Category: Panama May 9,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Ngugi wa'Thiong'o

Wallace Mwangi, or Good Wallace as he was becoming known, was my mother’s first major success. He was born in 1930 and later went to Manguo school for a few ...
( Category: World War II May 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-10 | Author:Unknown

INDEX* 188 A ability 21, 45, 71, 79, 105, 125, 151, 159, 164, 176 acquaintances 41, 121, 126-7, 187 activities, profit-producing 52 actors 39-41, 73 admire 67 Adrian 48 ads ...
( Category: Foreign Language Study & Reference May 3,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jon E. Lewis

Soldiering On Combat, Life and Death in the Battle of Normandy, 7 June – 20 August 1944 Sometimes I wondered if the battles would ever end. We seemed to be ...
( Category: World War II April 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-28 | Author:Michael Gould

Biafra’s resourcefulness Biafra was fortunate in having a well-organised regional civil service and part of an efficiently-run national police force, as well as an organised judiciary, and a well-established banking ...
( Category: African April 29,2014 )
mobi |nld | 2012-05-14 | Author:Howard Wasdin

9 Herboren sniper Nadat generaal Garrison grote vraagtekens had geplaatst bij de eisen die aan snipers van JSOC konden worden gesteld – zowel bij de SEAL’s als bij leden van ...
( Category: Military April 28,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon

VII After this they marched into the country of the Taochians five stages—thirty parasangs—and provisions failed; for the Taochians lived in strong places, into which they had carried up all ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 28,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-12-31 | Author:Xenophon & Robin H. Waterfield & Paul Cartledge

CHAPTER 10 The usual way of getting a good war-horse to put on a grander and [1] more imposing display as it rides by is to pull at its mouth ...
( Category: Europe April 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-18 | Author:Curzio Malaparte [Malaparte, Curzio]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN DUST AND RAIN Petshanka, September. AFTER a week of rain, here at last is the fine weather. The dust returns, and the soldiers inhale it with delight. (The ...
( Category: World War II April 22,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-06 | Author:Curzio Malaparte [Malaparte, Curzio]

The interpreter was a Sonderführer,{12} short and thin, not more than thirty years old, his face covered with little red pimples. He had been born in Russia in the Deutschvolk ...
( Category: Journalists April 22,2014 )