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MacArthur at War by Walter R. Borneman
epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:Walter R. Borneman

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Bypassing Rabaul The World War II strategy of island-hopping—isolating and bypassing enemy strong points—had many fathers. The Japanese, consciously or not, employed a version of it when they ...
( Category: World War II May 11,2016 )
Fog of War by Bourrie Mark
epub |eng | 2012-02-21 | Author:Bourrie, Mark [Bourrie, Mark]

CHAPTER 8 Censoring News from the Front Lines ON JANUARY 14, 1944, Globe and Mail war correspondent Ralph Allen sat down at his typewriter and began a column that, back ...
( Category: 20th Century May 10,2016 )
Hitler's Gift by Jean Medawar
epub |eng | 2016-05-08 | Author:Jean Medawar [Medawar, Jean]

EDITH BüLBRING Edith Bulbring’s father was a professor of English at Bonn University, which must have been an advantage for her. When Karl, Edith’s father, died young, his brother took ...
( Category: Holocaust May 10,2016 )
Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings by Craig L. Symonds
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-08 | Author:Craig L. Symonds [Symonds, Craig L.]

PUTTING A LID ON THE CATASTROPHE did not mean there were no repercussions. Ernest King ordered eight more destroyers from the U.S. Navy to join Ramsay’s command, adding, “Experience against ...
( Category: World War II May 10,2016 )
Operation Damocles by Roger Howard
epub |eng | | Author:Roger Howard

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Egyptians Press Ahead By launching the Shavit 2, Israeli chiefs were hoping to do more than just steal the limelight from the Egyptian premier. For by the ...
( Category: Israel & Palestine May 10,2016 )
The Castaway's War by Stephen Harding
epub |eng | 2016-03-25 | Author:Stephen Harding

The future USS Strong (DD-467) takes shape on the ways at Bath Iron Works (BIW). Hull number 193 was among the first six of an eventual 31 2,100-ton Fletcher-class destroyers ...
( Category: Japan May 10,2016 )
The Battle of the Atlantic by Jonathan Dimbleby
epub |eng | 2015-09-09 | Author:Jonathan Dimbleby

12. Beating the Drum In January 1942 the neon signs along the eastern seaboard from thousands of restaurants, bars and casinos from Miami to New York sent a spiral of ...
( Category: World War II May 10,2016 )
Bruneval by Paul Oldfield
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Paul Oldfield

A trainee paratrooper about to jump from a Whitley – the cramped conditions are evident. Cramped cockpit of a Whitley bomber, looking forward from the navigator’s position. Paratroopers exiting a ...
( Category: World War II May 10,2016 )
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Modern Library War) by Toland John
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-06 | Author:Toland, John [Toland, John]

Here, I felt, all were my brothers, not merely in a figurative sense, but literally as sons of the same Mother Asia. Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Manchukuoan, Filipino, Burmese, Indian—Asiatics all, ...
( Category: Japan May 8,2016 )
The Flying Tigers by John Toland
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:John Toland [Toland, John]

Gregory Boyington Early on the morning of February 7, Sandell took up a P-40 with a new tail assembly. He wanted to test it before anybody flew it into combat. ...
( Category: United States May 8,2016 )
Where The Hell Have You Been? by Tom Carver
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Carver [Tom Carver]

11. IT WAS A CLEAR night with a full moon. They walked for six miles, guided by the sound of goods trains shunting through the darkness. Richard had decided to ...
( Category: World War II May 6,2016 )
The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe (Modern Library War) by John Toland
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-27 | Author:John Toland [Toland, John]

2. The deteriorating situation in the east was also bringing about a deterioration in the personal relations between Hitler and his commander of that front. As Guderian and Major Freytag ...
( Category: World War II May 6,2016 )
Fighting Hitler's Jets: The Extraordinary Story of the American Airmen Who Beat the Luftwaffe and Defeated Nazi Germany by Robert F. Dorr
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:Robert F. Dorr [Dorr, Robert F.]

September 8, 1944 Minus Ernst Heinkel himself, the company bearing his name wanted a second chance—following its near success with the Heinkel He 280—to get an operational jet into service. ...
( Category: History May 6,2016 )
THE WAR IN ITALY 1943-1944 by Grehan John & Mace Martin
epub |eng | 2014-10-29 | Author:Grehan, John & Mace, Martin

The Cassino Position. I have already described the Liri valley as the gateway to Rome and alluded to the strength of the defences of the gate. A description of the ...
( Category: World War II May 6,2016 )
Werewolf: The Story of the Nazi Resistance Movement 1944-1945 by Charles Whiting
epub |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Charles Whiting [Whiting, Charles]

Chapter Five – The Last Battle ‘Je starker der Sturm, desto kräftiger der Widerstand.’ (‘The stronger the storm, the mightier the resistance.’) Dr Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister, April 1945 The ...
( Category: Holocaust May 2,2016 )

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