World War I
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rogan, Eugene [Rogan, Eugene]

THE DANGERS OF LIFE UNDER SIEGE WERE IMMEDIATELY APPARENT TO the defenders in Kut al-Amara, who must have felt like the proverbial fish in a barrel. “The Turks set about ...
( Category: World War I April 26,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Prit Buttar

CHAPTER 10 THE REALITY OF DEFEAT GALICIA, SEPTEMBER 1914 The opening rounds of the fighting in Galicia had clearly gone in favour of Conrad and his armies, but in a ...
( Category: World War I March 31,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Admiral Reinhard Scheer

CHAPTER XII AIRSHIP ATTACKS ON the outbreak of war the Navy had at its disposal only three airships, “L 3,” “L 4” and “L 5,” of 15,000 cb.m. capacity. The ...
( Category: World War I March 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2001-03-20 | Author:Ben Macintyre [MacIntyre, Ben]

There were only a few uneasy and unkempt civilians to be seen. Everywhere there were soldiers in worn and torn coats, with tanned faces and thick beards, who went to ...
( Category: World War I March 21,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Erik Larson [Larson, Erik]

IN LONDON, a mosaic of information had by now accumulated in Blinker Hall’s intelligence division and in Room 40 that showed that only one submarine was in the waters off ...
( Category: History March 13,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-05-04 | Author:Erwin Rommel

Sketch 29 Preparations for the attack of August 11, 1917. View from the west. Soon the bushes in front of us began to thin out and we advanced another hundred ...
( Category: World War I March 3,2015 )
epub |rus | 2011-05-25 | Author:Stevenson, David [Stevenson, David]

SHIPPING These discussions are a reminder that immense construction, manufacturing, and repair programmes underpinned the Allies’ triumph. British mine and depth charge output trebled between 1917 and 1918; that of ...
( Category: European March 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-08 | Author:H. Hesketh-Prichard

In the morning, when the light was bad owing to the position of the sun, it was very hard to spot the shell hole, and the beam was invisible, but ...
( Category: Conventional February 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Christopher Burgess

65 Squadron. 30th December 1917 Thanks for yesterday’s letter, today’s hasn’t arrived yet. I hope you get all mine eventually. We were to go on patrol this morning from 9 ...
( Category: World War I January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:H. W. Crocker, III [Crocker, H. W.]

“A MAN WHO WAS GOING TO BE CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE ARMY ONE DAY” Bearing a recommendation from the superintendent at VMI and from New York senator John Wise ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lloyd, Nick [Lloyd, Nick]

In the dark we tried to find roads that were no longer there, over grades, around shell holes and booby traps. Never knowing when an enemy shell would make a ...
( Category: World War I January 29,2015 )
mobi | | | Author:Michael Korda

Triumph: Lawrence, in the Blue Mist, arrives in Damascus. The arrival of Lieutenant-General Chauvel added to Lawrence’s burdens. Like General Barrow at Deraa, Chauvel was shocked and appalled by the ...
( Category: Great Britain January 6,2015 )
mobi | | | Author:Unknown

chapter eleven How can I insert troops without decent plans? Even if it all has to change at the last moment, I still need somewhere more solid to start. Solo ...
( Category: World War I January 6,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:John Garth

PART THREE The Lonely Isle ELEVEN Castles in the air The fever persisted. Tolkien wrote to Lieutenant-Colonel Bird, his commanding officer, explaining his whereabouts, but All Hallows went by and ...
( Category: World War I January 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:Alan Wakefield

Christmas 1917 I send to all ranks of the Navy and Army my hearty good wishes for Christmas and New Year. I realize your hardships patiently and cheerfully borne and ...
( Category: World War I December 27,2014 )