epub |eng | 2001-03-15 | Author:Eric Hunt [Hunt, Eric]

Kennedy wrote to his mother: The infantry in front have been fighting a good deal last week… Our horses are in fine condition and I believe the cavalry never were ...

epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Stuart Reid [Reid, Stuart]

6 Castlebar Races: The Fencibles at War Altyre’s efforts to bring the Strathspeys around were ultimately to be in vain, for although he soon convinced himself that everyone except the ...

epub |eng | 1990-05-01 | Author:Juliet Piggott, Brian Horrocks [Juliet Piggott, Brian Horrocks]

But the Matron-in-Chief’s task in France was by no means a question of just caring for Kings and Field-Marshals. Dame Maud’s reports are filled, in meticulous detail, with accounts of ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-30 | Author:Robin Rhoderick-Jones [Rhoderick-Jones, Robin]

The repetitive grind of BAOR soldiering was, as always, alleviated by almost annual visits from the Colonel-in-Chief, by sport, and by the music provided by the excellent band, which in ...

epub |eng | 1998-09-01 | Author:David Stone [Stone, David]

The support provided to the School of Infantry by the battalion was not confined solely to Salisbury Plain. The battalion also maintained the Demonstration Platoon at the School of Infantry’s ...

epub |eng | 2021-11-21 | Author:Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny [Tassigny, Marshal de Lattre de]

Chapter X THE COLMAR POCKET: THE OPERATIONS OF DECEMBER 1944 The attempted combined actions against the German pocket in Alsace (5th-14th December)–The liberation of Thann–The ‘minimum plan’ and my interventions ...

epub |eng | | Author:Dave Barr [Dave Barr]

epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Jonathan Hunt [Hunt, Jonathan]

Chapter 24 Abyssinia, Tobruk, Benghazi and Crete January–July 1941 Among officers joining at this time was John Semken, another posting from the Inns of Court Regiment complete with riding boots, ...

epub |eng | 2009-06-25 | Author:Michael Springman [Springman, Michael]

pdf | | 2017-08-04 | Author:Culture, Conflict & the Military in Colonial South Asia (2018)

epub |eng | | Author:Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

PART III Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. —T. S. Eliot 19 “A MOTLEY COLLECTION OF OUTCASTS” RECONNAISSANCE. THE ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Owen, Joseph R. [Owen, Joseph R.]

The Air Force drops supplies. Ammunition and rations came by parachute after the Chinese had cut the MSR—the main supply route. When the chutes blew into the hills, we fought ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ray Hildreth Charles W. Sasser [Ray Hildreth Charles W. Sasser]

Even though we on the hill hadn’t access to the “Big Picture” or maps with colored pins or colored markers, it seemed obvious these guys were heading east toward Chu ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bryan Perrett

When the troops, having been briefed on the operation, marched out of camp at 04:30 on 20 October, their muttered opinion of the generals was ripe, to say the least. ...

mobi |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:William O. Darby

From there Major Dammer and the battalion went south over the hill to Porto Empedocle. For a three-mile stretch, row upon row of vineyards sloped gracefully towards the sea. The ...