epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Roger Crowley

11 Terrible Engines APRIL 25–MAY 28, 1453 There is a need for machines for conducting a siege: different types and forms of tortoises … portable wooden towers … different forms ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-07-22 | Author:Gerhard Koop & Klaus-Peter Schmolke [Koop, Gerhard]

The end: Z 33 at Wilhelmshaven after the war, flanked by Otto Wünsche (right) and the torpedo boat T 17 (left). Between January and May 1945 1,420,000 individuals were evacuated ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Couch, Dick & Doyle, William

“THE GROUND WAR STARTS at 0400 hours,” said Lieutenant Tom Dietz. “Let’s go in and blow the shit out of the beach!” In the early morning hours of February 24, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sam Willis

These sketches and notes would form the main source material for Turner’s two magnificent paintings of Trafalgar and would plant a seed in his mind that would germinate thirty years ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2000-03-06 | Author:John McCain

III In me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great. —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Lancelot and Elaine” CHAPTER 14 ...

mobi | | | Author:Stephen Budiansky

epub |eng | 1998-12-26 | Author:Kahn, David

Britain’s target: an Enigma cipher machine of the German navy. The Enigma put German messages radioed to U-boats into secret form; an identical machine, identically set up, reconverted the ciphertext ...

epub |eng | 2003-05-02 | Author:Doug Stanton [Stanton, Doug]

The rafts of marine private McCoy and Captain McVay drifted ahead of what remained of the other groups. McCoy and McVay were about eight miles apart, and each was about ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edward L. Beach

Official U.S. Navy Photo Lieutenant Milton R. (“Whitey”) Rubb was our custodian of sea water. From each of the seven seas we gathered separate samples, and in one bottle we ...

epub |eng | 2004-07-05 | Author:John Wukovits [Wukovits, John]

“We’ll Make Our Stand Here” “Shells Came Shrieking Like a Thousand Demons” While Takano’s men swarmed ashore on Wilkes, the other Japanese contingents, among whom was Sub-Lieutenant Ozeki, silently approached ...

mobi |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Dickie, Iain & Jestice, Phyllis & Jorgensen, Christer & Rice, Rob S. & Dougherty, Martin J. [Dickie, Iain]

Deadly Melee Hawke’s 100-gun flagship, the Royal George, bore down on the 70-gun Superbe and sank it with a single, massive broadside at the waterline. It sank with all hands, ...

mobi |eng | 1999-02-01 | Author:Tom Clancy

E-2C Hawkeye AEW aircraft on the deck of the USS George Washington (CVN-73). They generally parked alongside the island structure, on a spot called “the Hummer Hole.” JOHN D. GRESHAM ...

mobi |eng | 1996-11-01 | Author:Tom Clancy

Walking forward, you enter a stowage area for vehicles of the embarked MEU (SOC). On this deck and the one below are HMMWVs, 5-ton trucks, M 198 155mm field howitzers, ...

mobi |rus | 2004-06-29 | Author:Robert Kurson

By Chatterton’s calculation, it should take no more than a week to receive the answer. For his part, Kohler continued to rampage through historical texts, learning the patrols of America-bound ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-12 | Author:Tim McGrath

To fight against the British and win our liberty. We shipped with Captain Whipple who never knew a fear, The Captain of the Providence, the Yankee privateer.40 On it went ...