World War I
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Scott Anderson

TO THE ANNOYANCE of defense-minded military commanders throughout history, civilians have a tendency to stay put in their homes until an enemy invading force is just over the horizon. Then, ...
( Category: Diplomacy October 13,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:The Sleepwalkers

( Category: World War I September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rutledge, Ian

PART TWO Revolution and Suppression 21 The Drift to Violence On 9 June 1920 Wilson flew back to Baghdad from Mosul in the observer’s seat of an RE8. He had ...
( Category: World War I September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-17 | Author:Pat Morgan

Injured are carried to a dressing station during the Battle of the Canal du Nord, 1918 German prisoners taken during an American assault during the Battle of St-Mihiel, 1918 The ...
( Category: World War I September 3,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul G. Halpern [Halpern, Paul G.]

THE ROMANIAN CAMPAIGN The Austrian navy, joined by the German motorboats, was now faced with the problem of defending traffic on the Danube and the Bulgarian frontier with Romania. The ...
( Category: World War I September 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Gerry Harrison [Gerry Harrison]

1st April ’16 All Fools’ Day, and when I think of last night’s tour I have an uneasy feeling that the major was anticipating a little. It was a regular ...
( Category: World War I September 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-24 | Author:Howard, Michael [Howard, Michael]

For the solution, Falkenhayn turned to the method that he had already used so successfully in the east: attrition. France should be quite literally bled to death, through the destruction ...
( Category: World War I August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-03-16 | Author:Stokesbury, James L. [Stokesbury, James L.]

That left only German East Africa, and here was played out one of those epic little affairs that attract attention far beyond their importance to the larger scene. The colony ...
( Category: World War I August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-06 | Author:Alistair Horne

Worst of all was the lot of the stretcher-bearers, which usually fell — until the supply was used up — to the regimental musicians. The two-wheeled carts that comprised the ...
( Category: World War I August 14,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-05-04 | Author:Ernst Jünger & Michael Hofmann

These idyllic positions have the one drawback that one's superior officers like to visit them, which is a great dampener to the cosiness of trench life. That said, my left ...
( Category: World War I July 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-05 | Author:Peter Hart [Hart, Peter]

The surviving German machine guns gave the Australians the unwanted chance to judge the killing potential of these guns in the relatively open fields of the Somme battlefields compared to ...
( Category: World War I June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-18 | Author:Ricahrd Van Emden

BILL EASTON I was thin, they told me I looked like a skeleton, ragged. But I tried not to worry. You see, a lot of men, I swear, died just ...
( Category: Veterans May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-10-09 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

3 Completing the arsenal of howitzers, guns, and mortars was the deadliest weapon of all – the one that had transformed warfare. The heavy, water-cooled Vickers machine gun and the ...
( Category: Canada May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Peter Englund [Englund, Peter]

One of the men interjects that the communiqué has carefully refrained from mentioning their own losses, but all of the rest are strangely gratified and repeat time after time—like a ...
( Category: World War I March 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:James Hayward [Hayward, James]

5 Trench Myths The principal trench and battlefield myths examined in this chapter are those of the Crucified Canadian in 1915, and the German corpse conversion plant, which first gained ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 31,2014 )