Military
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:James Loney [Loney, James]

JANUARY 20 DAY 56 The voices—loud, excited, running into each other—move to the bottom of the stairway. It sounds like a party. The voices subside. Footsteps in the foyer. Junior ...
( Category: Canadian March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Richard Bassett

CHAPTER NINE KEEPING THE EMPIRE AFLOAT I would rather have three or four teeth extracted than go through that again. HITLER 1 On 19 September 1939, Churchill had recommended to ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Linda Stratmann

SEVEN The Grappler When Ernest Terah Hooley came to London, he was ‘determined to make a million or go smash’.1 He did both. In 1896 he was unknown; by 1897 ...
( Category: True Crime March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1945-01-21 | Author:Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall [Nordhoff, Charles & Hall, James Norman]

CHAPTER XIII.—THE MOON OF PIPIRI It means little to say that I was happy with Tehani. It may mean more to state that only two women have left their mark ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Andy McNab [McNab, Andy]

Chapter Fifteen Once the sergeant major had inspected us all, we would march around for a couple of hours so that he could check our standard. That always made the ...
( Category: Life & Institutions March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Margaret Macmillan & Richard Holbrooke & Casey Hampton [Macmillan, Margaret & Holbrooke, Richard & Hampton, Casey]

2. Georges Clemenceau (center) and David Lloyd George (right ), prime ministers of France and Britain, walk past a guard of honor. (The gentleman with them may be Lord Beaverbrook.) ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Kershaw [Kershaw, Ian]

IV Not lost, however, was the war against the Jews – in Hitler’s eyes, the authors of the entire world conflagration. As we noted, Hitler had agreed in June to ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-01-07 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

Fisher's actual departure was done in bravura style. At noon, when a gun was fired, Renown slipped her mooring and steamed out of the Grand Harbor at sixteen knots "like ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:Andrew Cook [Cook, Andrew]

ELEVEN FINAL CURTAIN Instead of heading for New York as scheduled, the captain of the SS Olympic docked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 21 April, due to propeller trouble.1 Although ...
( Category: Espionage March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charlie A. Beckwith [Beckwith, Charlie A.]

The briefing room was up at XVIII Airborne Corps. General Warner’s large office was filled with stars. It was like a Delta class reunion. General Meyer was there, along with ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-11 | Author:William Lubbeck [Lubbeck, William]

BATTLING IN A SWAMP: April June 1942 When the spring thaw arrived in early April, it swiftly turned the whole Volkhov battlefield into a muddy bog. The warmer weather was ...
( Category: Veterans March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Jeremiah Workman & John Bruning [Workman, Jeremiah & Bruning, John]

Big hair and all, they got that one right. I light the smoke and take a deep breath. It’s after ten and I’ll need to take my meds soon. That’ll ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Rorke Denver & Ellis Henican [Denver, Rorke & Henican, Ellis]

It was the final challenge in an elaborate port-security exercise at Roosey Roads. They had plenty of warning. The Navy’s ship’s commanders knew we were on our way. They were ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Mendez, Antonio J. [Mendez, Antonio J.]

DESPITE THE GLARE of unflattering public scrutiny in the mid-1970s, important members of OTS and the Agency considered the HONOR case to be a breakthrough in the evolution of the ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Sam Adams [Adams, Sam]

Regulars: 119,000 Service Troops: 37,500 Guerrillas: 80,000 Military Total: 236,500 Political Cadres: 80,000 In other words, the agency had gone along with MACV’s mimeographed bargain—and then some. The militia had ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )