World War I
epub |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:Cecil Lewis [Lewis, Cecil]

* In 1917 co-operative tactics in single-seater fighting were rudimentary. A combat was a personal matter. In a fight no pilot has time to watch others; he is too occupied ...
( Category: World War I August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-17 | Author:Nigel Cave

The officers of 2/DLI commissioned a painting of the action at Hooge after the war—the only action of the whole of that conflict which they chose to remember in this ...
( Category: General July 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-18 | Author:Lyn Macdonald

Able Seaman J. S. Bentham, Benbow Bn., 1st Brig., Royal Naval Div. It was an elderly lady who got into our compartment and tackled us and did she feel small ...
( Category: World War I June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-29 | Author:Geoffrey Bennett [Bennett, Geoffrey]

* For details of the battlecruisers of both sides involved in this battle see Appendix E on p. 173. APPENDIX E Particulars of Battlecruisers at the Dogger Bank Battle 9 ...
( Category: World War I June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:James Hamilton-Paterson [Hamilton-Paterson, James]

* For all the political rhetoric in Westminster about the ‘Fokker Scourge’ of late 1915, the skies above the battlefields of Belgium and France were often remarkably empty of aircraft ...
( Category: Aviation June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Moorehead [Moorehead, Alan]

CHAPTER ELEVEN DURING the months of June and July neither side made any serious attempt to attack at Anzac, and while an uneasy stalemate continued there five pitched battles were ...
( Category: World War I June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-29 | Author:Richard G Morley [Morley, Richard G]

We left his tent not really knowing what to say. As the three of us walked slowly away, two British officers walked by speaking loudly to each other. “The bloody ...
( Category: World War I June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-10 | Author:Brian Douglas Tennyson

2. By way of comparison, Australia, with a population of 4 million—about half that of Canada—raised 421,809 men, representing 38.7% of its male population between the ages of eighteen and ...
( Category: 20th Century June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-28 | Author:Robert K. Massie

CHAPTER 24 The Minefields The whole fourteen-mile length of the Straits from the entrance at Cape Helles up to the Narrows at Chanak was within range of different types of ...
( Category: England June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-07-26 | Author:Giles Foden

TWELVE Mimi and Toutou’s great journey was over. Now they had to prepare for battle. Spicer had his Vice-Admiral’s flag—white with a red circle in the corner—run up a pole ...
( Category: World War I June 11,2015 )
epub |ara, eng | 2015-04-23 | Author:Charles Bracelen Flood

Near the end of the war, the French general Robert Nivelle asked Nungesser, “Lieutenant, can you tell me by what miracle of tactics you have managed to bring down so ...
( Category: World War I June 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-03 | Author:David Stevenson

15 The Central Powers’ Last Throw, Autumn 1917–Summer 1918 In autumn 1917 the Central Powers regained the initiative. Their counterattack against the Kerensky offensive initiated a reversal of fortunes comparable ...
( Category: European June 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Adam Cruise

8 Northern Force FROM THE START, Botha believed the shortest and most direct route to Windhoek was from Swakopmund, just north of Walvis Bay. Against the general consensus of both ...
( Category: South Africa May 27,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Patrick Lindsay

We marched along the road in single file keeping to the right under cover of the hedge as much as possible – and about five minute intervals between platoons, till ...
( Category: France May 25,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-06 | Author:Vera Brittain

10 Victor’s long letter had been written on March 24th from a sector near Arras. To-day, as I re-read his realistic phrases, they seem to me to be less infused ...
( Category: World War I May 24,2015 )