Military
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Michael Haag

Castles were never just military outposts, nor did they necessarily serve a primarily military purpose. As in Europe, castles served as core developments for new settlements and as centres of ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dennis Showalter

II ON APRIL 5, 1942, Hitler issued Directive 41, outlining the operational plan for the summer of 1942. Its focus would be in the south: a major drive toward the ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Giles Milton

As they boarded the train at Münsingen station, Wolfram and his comrades still had no idea where they might be sent. Some thought they were heading for the Ukraine. Others ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-16 | Author:Sean McMeekin [McMeekin, Sean]

Part IV: Boomerang [Ottoman Muslims] treat Christians with mildness and friendliness, as long as their religious fanaticism is not urged on. Wilhelm von Pressel, the ‘Father of the Baghdad Railway’, ...
( Category: World War I March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Downing [Downing, David]

VI During the next few days, as 90th Motorised reconnaissance units moved east along the coastal road in the wake of the retreating British, the defenders and population of the ...
( Category: Germany March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1959-01-01 | Author:Gunter Grass & Breon Mitchell [Grass, Gunter & Mitchell, Breon]

Bebra’s Theater at the Front In mid-June of forty-two, my son Kurt turned one year old. Oskar, his father, took it in stride, thought to himself: Just two short years ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2005-01-25 | Author:Evans, Richard J. [Evans, Richard J.]

To many readers of the newspapers that reported Hitler’s appointment, the jubilation of the brownshirts must have appeared exaggerated. The key feature of the new government, symbolized by the participation ...
( Category: European March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Giles MacDonogh [MacDonogh, Giles]

French Zone The French Zone, which covered the Vorarlberg and most of the Tyrol, was originally run from French HQ in Lindau on Lake Constance in Württemberg. Despite the fraternising ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Lyman

‘Blondie’ Hasler as a newly commissioned Royal Marine Second Lieutenant in 1932. (Mrs Bridget Hasler) The photograph taken of Hasler in Barcelona in late March 1943 for his identity documents, ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-04 | Author:Adam Hochschild [Hochschild, Adam]

This particular station was in the basement of a château. Many were worse: a foot deep in mud, with no running water, or under fire. Take the experience of any ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Juliet Barker [Barker, Juliet]

PART FOUR THE SEARCH FOR PEACE CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Defending Normandy On the eve of Saint Andrew, 29 November 1436, a hard frost set in which would last until 12 February ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-07-04 | Author:Andrew Roberts [Roberts, Andrew]

They had two more hours of such hell to go before the cavalry attacks — some counted fourteen in all — ceased. There was some vigorous countercharging by British cavalry ...
( Category: Strategy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mitchell Zuckoff [Zuckoff, Mitchell]

Chapter 19 “SHOO, SHOO BABY” THEIR STOMACHS EMPTY and growling, Walter and his team awoke early to a breakfast of hot water and hope. His top priority was receiving a ...
( Category: Aviation March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph H. Alexander [Alexander, Joseph H.]

* The author is indebted to H. Arthur “Hal” Lamar, flag lieutenant to Nimitz, and Loren F. “Sonny” Paulus, the admiral’s bodyguard, for these personal insights. * The instructors at ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:John Geoghegan [Geoghegan, John]

* According to some accounts, it took almost twice as long to prep the third Seiran. † Robert Mikesh says seven minutes were required to launch each of the first ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )