Naval
mobi |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

‘Portrait of Count Jean-Baptiste Drouet d’Erlon, Marshal of France’, by Ary Scheffer: d’Erlon’s superior numbers and crack troops came within a whisker of breaking Wellington’s army. Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte, ...
( Category: Naval November 24,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-31 | Author:Lawrence Sondhaus

Figure 7.2 German dreadnought Friedrich der Grosse Scheer’s second fleet sortie, on April 24–25, retraced the route of the first, but with Hipper’s battle cruisers steaming all the way to ...
( Category: Naval November 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-03-15 | Author:Tom Clancy [Clancy, Tom]

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, ...
( Category: Naval November 23,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

‘Portrait of Count Jean-Baptiste Drouet d’Erlon, Marshal of France’, by Ary Scheffer: d’Erlon’s superior numbers and crack troops came within a whisker of breaking Wellington’s army. Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte, ...
( Category: Naval November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Michael Mair

CHAPTER 16 Rescue I felt sick seeing these men screaming from pain and covered with oil. —Lieutenant Milford Romanoff, officer of the deck, USS Lackawanna In Lackawanna’s gig, Jim Factor ...
( Category: Naval November 3,2014 )
epub | | | Author:James Bradley

( Category: Diplomacy October 31,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Scott McEwen & Richard Miniter

We expect to lead and be led. In the absence of orders I will take charge, lead my teammates, and accomplish the mission. I lead by example in all situations. ...
( Category: Military October 16,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Victor H. Krulak [Krulak, Victor H.]

The tide at Inchon varied as much as twenty-six feet. Here a tank carrier and a landing ship are high and dry. (Courtesy of Defense Audio-Visual Agency) A final prebattle ...
( Category: United States September 17,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:National Maritime Museum

His certainty came from having used thirty-four sets of lunar observations to establish its position. Fixing geographical locations accurately was a lengthy process, since the best observations could only be ...
( Category: History August 21,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2005-11-29 | Author:Jonathan Parshall & Anthony Tully

16-1: Japanese early afternoon search plans. Haruna’s 1300 search, as well as the routes ordered by Nagumo at 1315, are both indicated. Which of these individual search lines were actually ...
( Category: Japan July 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-19 | Author:Tom Wareham [Wareham, Tom]

The move was quite probably equally unwelcome to the seamen also. The Melampus herself was also to be placed under Bridport’s command. For nearly two weeks, the frigates waited for ...
( Category: History July 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-22 | Author:Scott Martelle

The search began in earnest in late June 1899, with a series of letters and inquiries to various French political figures and bureaucrats. Vignaud, a voracious reader of the Parisian ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Robert Gandt [Gandt, Robert]

Something caught Mitsuru Yoshida’s eye as he stood on the bridge. Something red. One of Yamato’s screening destroyers on the port outer edge of the formation, Hamakaze, had just showed ...
( Category: United States May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:James D. Hornfischer [Hornfischer, James D.]

Thirty For Captain Hathaway, conning the Heermann through the cantering herd of CVEs amid heavy smoke, spray, and fog en route to joining the torpedo run had been no minor ...
( Category: World War II May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Carl Roat [Roat, John Carl]

*A little aside on what was going on with the army and food. About three years after we got out of jump school, the army had a huge financial scandal. ...
( Category: Naval March 26,2014 )