World War II
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Hans Seidler

A Panzergrenadier aids an injured comrade from an Sd.Kfz.251 half-track. German infantry had found the advance into enemy lines very difficult in a number of places. Due to extensive well ...
( Category: World War II September 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Gwen Watkins

Chapter 11 Changes IT HAD BECOME OBVIOUS very quickly that the huts did not provide enough working space for the growing numbers of BP workers, so in 1942 two two-storey ...
( Category: European September 9,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Lucas

15 The frustrating mud and the scouring dust From the previous chapter it can be appreciated how the cold weather affected the nature of the campaign. But there was another ...
( Category: World War II September 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-18 | Author:Martin Bowman

When word reached Thorpe Abbotts that the crew of Just A Snappin’ were still alive the sea of despondency that had descended on base operations was lifted. Everyone had thought ...
( Category: Aviation September 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author: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 September 8,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Brian Murphy

Leon Crane, right, with his father Louis, who emigrated in 1913 from Ukraine to Philadelphia along with his wife Sonia. Crane had a letter from his father in his parka ...
( Category: World War II September 8,2015 )
epub |ara, eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Brian Murphy

The row house at 5464 Baltimore Avenue in West Philadelphia where Crane spent much of his boyhood with his two brothers and a sister. The neighborhood became a magnet for ...
( Category: World War II September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Paul Thomas

( Category: Conventional September 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-26 | Author:Robert Cressman [Cressman, Robert]

2dLt Carl R. Davidson (seen circa September 1941), VMF-211’s assistant gunnery officer, was awarded a Navy Cross posthumously for courageously and unhesitatingly attacking an overwhelming number of Kates on 21 ...
( Category: World War II September 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Lorna Almonds-windmill

On 4 August, a submission, closely resembling the draft, was put forward to the C in C recommending that a new HQ raiding forces should be formed from HQ ‘L’ ...
( Category: World War II September 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Bill Cheall & Paul Cheall

My first car was a Morris Ten and had been bought new for £187 - a lot of money then. When war broke out I was camping in Devon with ...
( Category: World War II September 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 1954-11-17 | Author:David Howarth [Howarth, David]

CHAPTER NINE THE DESERTED FARM WHAT JAN came to know as the Savoy Hotel, Revdal, was not very commodious, but the first two days he spent there were the happiest ...
( Category: Norway September 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-07-31 | Author:Tony Holmes

‘Scramble’ over, Luke Allen strolls down the flightline at Kirton-in-Lindsey, cigarette in mouth, with fellow ‘Eagle’ Pilot Officer Bill Nichols. The former had joined 71 Squadron soon after its formation ...
( Category: World War II September 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-07-30 | Author:Nick Thomas

Sergeant R.C. Bolland No.185 Squadron Pilot Officer L. Cheek No.185 Squadron Group Captain Walter M. Churchill, DSO, DFC (flight leader) (Deputy AOC) Sergeant F.W. Clewley, RAAF No. 185 Squadron Sergeant ...
( Category: World War II September 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Robert Gildea [Robert Gildea]

In a second letter, sent the same day, Frenay told Delestraint that though he might be the head of the Armée Secrète, he was a conventional military man with no ...
( Category: World War II August 25,2015 )