World War II
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-02 | Author:Craig Cabell

Chapter 14 Continuing the Good Work ‘The radio sets hauled into France by the agents for the British Special Operations Executive during the Second World War were a nightmare by ...
( Category: Great Britain October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ian W. Toll [Toll, Ian W.]

TWO PARALLEL PACIFIC CAMPAIGNS, north and south of the equator, now had the imprimatur of the Allied high command. But Nimitz did not yet possess the sea or carrier air ...
( Category: Japan October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Max Wallace [Wallace, Max]

Information has been received that on or about July 11, 1940 Dr. Gerhart Alois Westrick, Commercial attaché of the German Embassy Washington, D.C., conferred with Mr. Henry Ford of Detroit, ...
( Category: World War II October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Alan Moorehead [Moorehead, Alan]

Not very practical for men campaigning through the jungle perhaps; but a good regimen for camp. I heard no one suggest that the Japanese soldier looked unfit. For a few ...
( Category: World War II October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-24 | Author:Kurowski, Frank

When Oberst Utz entered Chania around 1700 hours, the mayor of the city officially surrendered the city to him and requested that he spare the city’s citizens. Utz responded in ...
( Category: World War II October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-13 | Author:Frischauer, Willi [Frischauer, Willi]

Chapter XIII WAR London was under a hail of German bombs; I escaped from the falling shrapnel of the barrage into King’s Cross Underground Station, where hundreds of people patiently ...
( Category: World War II October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-30 | Author:Bruno Sutkus

23 Authenticated copy of telex, dated 5 September 1944, from Armeegruppe Heinrici, signed by C-in-C Generaloberst Heinrici, congratulating Sutkus on his fifty first success and awarding him fourteen days' special ...
( Category: Veterans October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:David Wragg

SEIZURE! On 30 June, the Admiralty received a copy of a message telegraphed from the French Admiralty to Admiral Odend‘hal at Portsmouth, advising him that the Italians had permitted the ...
( Category: Great Britain October 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:Alex Kershaw [Kershaw, Alex]

FOURTEEN THE COUP: JULY 20, 1944 KLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG, a tall and handsome thirty-seven-year-old German colonel, stood alone in a bathroom inside Adolf Hitler’s Prussian headquarters—the so-called Wolf’s Lair. It ...
( Category: European October 8,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Michael Dobbs

The cheers of the crowds massed outside 10 Downing Street and along Whitehall were ringing in his ears, but Winston Churchill found it difficult to share the popular elation. The ...
( Category: World War II September 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Peter Dornan

C H A P T E R E L E V E N Operation AVALANCHE The war was not going well for the Italians. On 25 July 1943, the Fascist ...
( Category: World War II September 15,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Morgan, Bruce Taylor

U136 and Heinrich Zimmermann For details on Zimmermann’s and U136’s earlier career, including this her first patrol, see HMS Arbutus (50). U136’s second patrol between March and May 1942 took ...
( Category: World War II September 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-25 | Author:Richard Knott

Meanwhile the losses continued: on the night of 7/8 November 1941, a major raid on Berlin by 392 aircraft, mainly Hampdens and Whitleys, saw thirty-seven aircraft fail to return or ...
( Category: Aviation September 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gerhard Koop & Klaus-Peter Schmolke

3. I did not keep the record of salvos and timings required by standing orders as I had to reappoint Aircraft NCO Kroll to another duty (removal of dented shell ...
( Category: Ships September 12,2015 )