Military
epub, mobi |eng | 1996-07-01 | Author:Robert Leckie [Leckie, Robert]

Three flares burst over Kakazu Ridge during the early darkness of April 12. Two were red, the first signaling, “Commence artillery fire,” and the other, “We are attacking with full ...
( Category: Japan March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Laurence Rees [LAURENCE REES]

Above A Japanese officer brandishing a sword (right) leads his soldiers in an attack on the Chinese in November 1941. This bloody, racist war against the Chinese would continue in ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-11 | Author:Robinson, Linda [Robinson, Linda]

After a long military career and a decade at war, Hansell’s company sergeant major, J. R. Jones, was steeled to accept the loss of men and decisions that went against ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:Rajiv Chandrasekaran [Chandrasekaran, Rajiv]

The amusements grew tiresome after a while. Some staffers retreated to their trailers to watch movies on their laptops. Others grew homesick and despondent. The embassy health clinic doled out ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:John R. Hale

THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION, 415-413 B.C. He went peacefully, leaving Nicias and Lamachus in charge of the expedition. At one of the landing places on the Italian coast, however, Alcibiades eluded ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Fought for a New Afghanistan [Afghanistan, The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Fought for a New]

“Say hi to the Christmas present,” Mag called out as Amerine and Mike, on their way to meet with Karzai in his new command post, trotted down from the top ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kurt Eichenwald

BOOK THREE THE THREAT 12 Three Yemeni men emerged from a five-story building in a Karachi housing project and walked across the street toward an outdoor food stall. A detachment ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |rus | 2004-06-29 | Author:Robert Kurson [Kurson, Robert]

Chatterton invited Yurga and Kohler to accompany him to Germany. Yurga accepted. Kohler, who ran his own business, could not free himself for the weeklong expedition. But the invitation moved ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-12-08 | Author:The Men Who War the Star: The Story of the Texas Rangers [Rangers, The Men Who War the Star: The Story of the Texas]

Chapter 12 The Rise of McNelly’s Rangers The Mason County War was just one of the “difficulties” that caused the decade of the 1870s to be known in Texas as ...
( Category: State & Local March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-12-14 | Author:Stinnett, Robert [Stinnett, Robert]

Radio silence was ignored as more Japanese naval broadcasts hit the airwaves. The first military intercept that specified Pearl Harbor as the target came from Japan’s highest naval commander, Admiral ...
( Category: Leadership March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Vine, David

THE BOTTOM OF THE BOTTOM Arriving in Mauritius and the Seychelles, islanders like Rita found themselves in positions vulnerable to ethnic and racial discrimination, as Chagossians and as Afro-Mauritians. Their ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-20 | Author:Jill Lepore [Lepore, Jill]

It is unlikely that Eliot received any assistance from Boyle, or that any Algonquians still alive in Tangier or elsewhere ever made it to England, much less to New England. ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Forsyth, Frederick [Frederick, Forsyth,]

By the time they had finished the Biafrans had regrouped. Further north Achuzie with his crack 29th Battalion had been off on his own, marching 92 miles and taking from ...
( Category: African March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Lyman [Lyman, Robert]

It is impossible to describe what it feels like to have a huge tank crunching its way towards you, and to be within feet of these menacing steel tracks, which ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alistair Horne

Preoccupations in France Less readily visible to the army and pieds noirs alike in Algeria was one fundamental reason for de Gaulle’s dilatoriness in formulating an Algerian policy: his preoccupation ...
( Category: North Africa March 26,2014 )