epub |eng | | Author:David Fromkin [David Fromkin]

CHAPTER 30: PRESENTING AN ULTIMATUM There had been an ominous semi-break in communication between Austria and Serbia since the Outrage; for all practical purposes they were not talking to one ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Thomas Fleming [THOMAS FLEMING]

III More embarrassing was the plight of a battalion of the Seventy-Seventh Division, which had been assigned to the Argonne forest. Attempting to correct the rigid line-abreast advance his staff ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2001-03-25 | Author:John Mosier [Mosier, John]

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES To put it somewhat differently, the Allies were unable to grasp the difference between a goal and an objective. Joffre, for example, had a laudable goal: to ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-16 | Author:Sean McMeekin [McMeekin, Sean]

Part IV: Boomerang [Ottoman Muslims] treat Christians with mildness and friendliness, as long as their religious fanaticism is not urged on. Wilhelm von Pressel, the ‘Father of the Baghdad Railway’, ...

epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Margaret Macmillan & Richard Holbrooke & Casey Hampton [Macmillan, Margaret & Holbrooke, Richard & Hampton, Casey]

2. Georges Clemenceau (center) and David Lloyd George (right ), prime ministers of France and Britain, walk past a guard of honor. (The gentleman with them may be Lord Beaverbrook.) ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1993-01-07 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

Fisher's actual departure was done in bravura style. At noon, when a gun was fired, Renown slipped her mooring and steamed out of the Grand Harbor at sixteen knots "like ...

mobi, pdf |it | 2012-04-05 | Author:Unknown

Document Outline Vacca, Luigi Vaccaro, Andrea Vaccaro, Domenico Antonio Vacchi, Sergio V�chal, Josef V�ci, J�nos Vadder, Lodewijk de Vafflard, Pierre Vagnetti, Gianni Vaillant, Wallerand Vajda, Lajos Valadon, Suzanne Valckenborch, van ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Andrew Krivak

I REMEMBER STILL, AS WE APPROACHED FORT CHERLE, THE new snow falling on the already deep pack we skied, and the strange lack of harassing fire from either the Italian ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Holger H. Herwig

* A term famously coined by Muhammad Ali for the “Rumble in the Jungle” against George Foreman in October 1974 at Kinshasa, Zaire. *Interestingly, in 1934 King Albert of Belgium ...

mobi |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Peter Englund; Peter Graves

SUNDAY, 25 JUNE 1916 Edward Mousley steals a tropical helmet from a dead man in Nusaybin The march continues. It is almost two months since the encircled British garrison in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-12 | Author:T.E. Lawrence

CHAPTER LXI LEWIS, the Australian, at such an ambitious moment, said that he and Stokes would like to be of my party. A new, attractive idea. With them we should ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-08-27 | Author:Hart, Peter [Hart, Peter]

12 MESOPOTAMIA, 1914–18 ‘It was believed to be a sideshow and “no man’s child”.’1 Lieutenant General George Gorringe, Headquarters, Tigris Corps THE ORIGINS OF THE MESOPOTAMIAN CAMPAIGN lay at sea ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jukes, Geoffrey [Jukes, Geoffrey]

5,000 * * * Tons of ammunition being delivered each day for British guns during the offensive. 19,240 * * * The number of British Army soldiers killed on the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Mark Thompson

Looking back at Cadorna’s prestige during the war, Carlo Sforza was caustic: ‘The Italian middle classes wanted to believe that a harsh mask and hermetic silence were the sure signs ...

mobi |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:Zuckerman, Larry [Zuckerman, Larry]

The chancellor had said more than he perhaps knew. To invoke the Somme while waving away Belgium’s “difficulties” was to endorse the policy of thrusting German costs, with interest, onto ...