epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Charles Carrington [Carrington, Charles]

12 Some random recollections (i) ON THE MARCH THOUGH the war on the Western Front seemed so immobile, the ceaseless interaction of trench reliefs implied that infantry units never stayed ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Michael Reynolds [Reynolds, Michael]

Chapter Fourteen Staff Officer in Canada Fortunately for the Reynolds family we were given the choice of travelling to Canada by sea or air. Naturally, we chose sea and were ...

epub |eng | 2009-01-10 | Author:Owen Connelly [Connelly, Owen]

XIII Joseph Warren Stilwell (1883–1946) “VINEGAR JOE” GENERAL JOSEPH W. STILWELL was hated by many—both those above and below him in the command chain, and casual acquaintances. Irascible, acerbic, he ...

epub |eng | 2004-12-22 | Author:Ian F. W. Beckett [Beckett, Ian F. W.]

Notes Crown copyright material from the Public Record Office appears by permission of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. The author also gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following in allowing him ...

epub |eng | 2021-05-19 | Author:Thomas Edward Merchant [Merchant, Thomas Edward]

Battle of Chancellorsville. April 29th, when the Army broke camp and started on a campaign intended to be brief, but sharp and decisive, fruitful of great and important results. It ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jeffery L Schatzer

Research University Auditorium—Today Back in the auditorium it was getting close to lunchtime as we set to work. Miss Pepper ordered some pepperoni pizzas while we silently paged through the ...

pdf | | | Author:Kasem Abdulmajed, Chris McGuigan & Charles M. Heard

epub |eng | | Author:Martin Middlebrook

Why was Lance Corporal Kent involved? Before the war he had worked with his father at their monumental mason's business near Boston Cemetery. Undoubtedly the Kents had many dealings with ...

epub |eng | 2022-09-15 | Author:Saul David

The ground seemed to sway back and forth under the concussions. I felt as though I were floating along in the vortex of some unreal thunderstorm. Japanese bullets snapped and ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Cawthorne Nigel [Nigel Cawthorne]

This appeared in the London Gazette of 26 August 1969 and the supplement of 29 August 1969. ‘I almost fell over,’ said Simpson, when he heard of his award. ‘I ...

epub |eng | | Author:Iain Gale

Corporal John Dickson of Captain Vernor’s F Troop had been awakened about five o’clock by his comrade John McGee, who had sprung up, shouting, ‘Damn your eyes, boys, there’s the ...

pdf | | 2012-05-04 | Author:Anita Hewerdine

epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Casey Hasey [Casey Hasey]

Chapter 30 Oboe: Our Pathway in the Sky Of all the B-26 Marauder airplanes, only the Pathfinders were equipped with Oboe, a top secret, state-of-the-art technology that enabled us to ...

pdf |en | | Author: Steven T. Ross

epub |eng | 2019-12-19 | Author:Frederick Watson [Watson, Frederick]

In the meantime, namely the beginning of November, troops had reached India from England, and the officer in command was Sir Colin Campbell, a name associated for all time with ...