Military
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-26 | Author:Robert Harvey

Chapter 51 THE GRENVILLE INTERLUDE When Pitt died at the end of January 1806, William, Lord Grenville, Pitt’s brilliant cousin, formed the Ministry of All Talents, so named for its ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-07-06 | Author:Andrew Roberts

4 The Fourth Phase ALTHOUGH THE DEFENCE of La Haye Sainte had been heroic, Major Baring’s increasingly desperate requests for ammunition had not been heeded. Wellington freely admitted after the ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:Zuckerman, Larry [Zuckerman, Larry]

The chancellor had said more than he perhaps knew. To invoke the Somme while waving away Belgium’s “difficulties” was to endorse the policy of thrusting German costs, with interest, onto ...
( Category: Belgium March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-30 | Author:Peter H. Wilson

SPAIN INTERVENES Wallenstein’s Secret Diplomacy Peace was impossible as long as Swedish power in southern and central Germany remained unbroken. The task of ejecting the Swedes devolved to Wallenstein and ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Peter FitzSimons

The three men get onto the raft in the mid-morning with such possessions as they have and wave goodbye to those who farewell them on the shore, waves that continue ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-30 | Author:Christopher Bayly; Tim Harper

MALAYA’S FORGOTTEN REGIMENTS Among the forsaken of empire were the vast regiments of labourers on the rubber plantations of Malaya. In the words of Selangor trade unionist C. V. S. ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-12 | Author:Gold, Hal [Gold, Hal]

Soviet demands that Emperor Hirohito face trial for war crimes caused the Japanese great distress, as this recently (1995) released note from the Foreign Ministry to SCAP shows. Pingfang's double ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-08-21 | Author:Leckie, Robert [Leckie, Robert]

A convoy had left Pearl Harbor on that date and it was the Northern Force headed for Roi-Namur. It carried the men of the Fourth Marine Division. They had sailed ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-15 | Author:Max Hastings

The sea below was black and the lower bases of the clouds a dark, dull gray. Then, almost as if in response to a drum roll, there was an explosion ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 1996-07-01 | Author:Robert Leckie

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 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:Ed Darack

Word of the Marines’ magnanimity quickly spread throughout the valleys surrounding Nangalam, including the Shuryek. During a patrol in late June, while assessing the need for a MEDCAP in the ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-06 | Author:Dalton Fury

George brought Ali up to date, with Adam Khan meticulously translating and Ali nodding in the affirmative. Ali said that he planned to exploit the bomb drop, as soon as ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-04 | Author:Victor Davis Hanson

Why We Fight as We Do WHAT, THEN, IS the American way of war? Without a national religion or a common race or ethnic culture, Americans are united first by ...
( Category: Military Technology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:Steven H. Jaffe

June 5, 1917, dawned fair and cool in New York. Through the morning and afternoon, thousands of men lined up outside neighborhood schools, barbershops, and storefronts to register for Selective ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:James Brady

PART THREE HOME FRONT Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Colonel Merritt A. Edson, Platoon Sergeant Mitchell Paige, and Sergeant John Basilone after receiving their Congressional Medals of Honor at Camp ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )