epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Michael Winter [Winter, Michael]

BEES IN CELLOPHANE I bicycled back to Beaumont-Hamel. The trees appeared on the horizon and I coasted down the quiet paved road towards them. I turned in at the now ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]

Soon after Drake’s return from ‘singeing the King of Spain’s beard’, as his exploits were now popularly labelled, Walsingham sat down and drew up plans to gather more timely and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-30 | Author:Christopher Andrew

For several years the New York residency deluded itself into believing that it was able to detect every instance of street surveillance of KGB personnel by the FBI.61 In 1973, ...

epub, mobi | | 2004-03-18 | Author:Rodger W. Claire

Ever since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had landed in Tehran in February 1979, Saddam had kept a jaundiced eye to his east. Socialist and secular, Hussein distrusted the bearded, fanatically religious ...

epub |eng | 2000-10-31 | Author:Francis Parkman

Notes - 1 1 The preceding extracts are from Lettres de Montcalm à Madame de Saint-Véran, sa Mère, et à Madame de Montcalm, sa Femme, 1756, 1757 (Papiers de Famille); ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Mark Zuehlke [Zuehlke, Mark]

IN THE MORNING, the North Shores’ ‘A’ Company had moved right to link up with the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, only to walk straight into a German counterattack. Under a ...

epub |eng | 2005-03-24 | Author:Mark Zuehlke

[ 14 ] Go! Go! Go! “FOLLOW ME!” Major Charles Dalton gallantly shouted at 0812 hours before dashing down the ramp of an LCA bearing on the beach directly fronting ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-04 | Author:Mark Zuehlke

A TOTAL OF 1,019 heavy bombers streamed across the French coast at 2300 hours. Canadian artillery marked the western targets with green flare shells, while the British indicated the eastern ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-10 | Author:Mark Zuehlke

WHILE THE CONQUEST of Enna had been under way and 2 CIB had been simultaneously dealing with Monte Desira Rossi, 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade had moved into the valley on ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Mark Zuehlke

16. Hell of a Fix The queen’s own Cameron Highlanders had crossed the channel in R-Boats without incident. They were to land at 0520 hours. Lieutenant Colonel Al Gostling’s gut ...

epub |eng | 2006-03-24 | Author:Mark Zuehlke [Zuehlke, Mark]

PART FOUR THE DOG FIGHT [ 20 ] All This Unpleasantness BETWEEN THE Conca River and Marecchia River, whose northern bank rested on the edge of the Po Valley, lay ...

epub |eng | 2006-03-24 | Author:Mark Zuehlke [Zuehlke, Mark]

[ 14 ] With Rage and Sorrow BLOODY TOIL was the order of the day for both the Germans and Allies on June 9, with neither able to gain significant ...