United States
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Edward F. Murphy

Chapter Eight Kilo 3/9 had spent the morning of 30 April near Mike 3/3’s night defensive perimeter. While it waited, artillery forward observer LCpl. Robert W. Stewart and his radioman, ...
( Category: Vietnam War November 27,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-02-23 | Author:The Greatest Generation [Generation, The Greatest]

Martha Settle Putney Her all-black unit of medical technicians was to be housed near Gardner General Hospital, not too far from Chicago’s tony Lake Shore Drive. The Army had built ...
( Category: United States November 19,2015 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-10-19 | Author:Willink, Jocko & Babin, Leif [Willink, Jocko]

“Frogman on the roof,” was the radio call that let friendly forces know SEALs were on the high ground. Here, SEAL machine gunner Marc Lee engages insurgents with lethal machine ...
( Category: United States November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:Bruce Gamble [Gamble, Bruce]

Hours before the carrier strikes commenced, “Tip” Merrill’s Task Force 39 had bombarded both Buka and Bonis with 2,700 six-inch and five-inch shells. Leaving the two airdromes in shambles, the ...
( Category: Japan November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Adam Makos & Marcus Brotherton [Makos, Adam]

CHAPTER ELEVEN THE DAYS OF HEAT AND FURY Peleliu The second day on Peleliu, September 16, 1944… STERLING MACE The next morning you see shapes of guys walking around. You ...
( Category: Veterans November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-22 | Author:C. Sterner [Sterner, C.]

O N MARCH 28, departed France to return to Italy. The unit had been brought back to regimental strength through the arrival of replacements throughout the winter. For the men ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism November 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Tom Mangold [Mangold, Tom]

Let’s grow manioc plant all over the bomb craters and make them green. We kill the Americans with their own shells and bombs. We kill the enemy and increase our ...
( Category: Vietnam War November 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-31 | Author:Martin W. Bowman

Carpetbagger missions were flown in earnest throughout May. William G. McKee’s crew, for instance, flew seven night missions that month, all of them to France. On the night of 28/29 ...
( Category: England November 2,2015 )
mobi |jpn | 2013-11-16 | Author:Unknown

( Category: World War II November 1,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-10-25 | Author:Douglas Waller

Chapter 25 The Plot DONOVAN WAS FINISHING dinner in his Georgetown home the night of July 20 with Lieutenant Colonel Hsiao Po and his wife when a servant whispered into ...
( Category: World War II October 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2006-09-19 | Author:Rajiv Chandrasekaran

PART TWO Shattered Dreams 9 Let This Be Over THE AL-RASHEED HOTEL WAS a concrete-and-glass monstrosity built by the Oberoi Group of India in the 1980s, before Saddam’s manic spending ...
( Category: Middle Eastern October 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-26 | Author:Henry I. Shaw [Shaw, Henry I.]

More than 200 Japanese soldiers alone were killed in a frenzied attack in the sandspit where the Tenaru River flows into Ironbottom Sound (Sealark Channel). On the 9th, Whaling’s force, ...
( Category: World War II October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Smedley D. Butler [Butler, Smedley D.]

CHAPTER FOUR HOW TO SMASH THIS RACKET! WELL, it's a racket, all right. A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You ...
( Category: History & Theory October 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Gregg Jones [Jones, Gregg]

CHAPTER 14 “Proud to Be a Marine” Friday, February 23 was the most hellish day of all for the defenders of Khe Sanh. Over seven terrifying hours, beginning in the ...
( Category: United States October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Godfrey Freeman [Freeman, Godfrey]

CHAPTER 7 The First Attempt The tonsillitis grew worse as the day wore on and I dallied with the idea of using it as an excuse to ‘duck out’ of ...
( Category: Veterans October 11,2015 )