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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-05-01 | Author:Cornelius Ryan

Thirty miles away Lieutenant Commander Heinrich Hoffmann, in the lead E-boat of his 5th Flotilla, saw a strange, unreal fog blanketing the sea ahead. As Hoffmann watched, a single plane ...
( Category: World War II June 11,2015 )
Darby's Rangers: We Led the Way
mobi |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:William O. Darby

From there Major Dammer and the battalion went south over the hill to Porto Empedocle. For a three-mile stretch, row upon row of vineyards sloped gracefully towards the sea. The ...
( Category: Veterans June 11,2015 )
We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories From the Band of Brothers by Marcus Brotherton
mobi |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Marcus Brotherton

Earl McClung The Island meant patrols. It was strictly a holding position. The Germans were across the river on the high ground, so you didn’t move in the daylight. If ...
( Category: Veterans June 11,2015 )
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World by Patrick J. Buchanan
mobi |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Patrick J. Buchanan

( Category: England June 11,2015 )
Double Cross in Cairo by Nigel West
epub |eng | 2014-06-07 | Author:Nigel West [Nigel West]

Seven messages later she reported: Much maritime activity last few days. Two big convoys of battleships and transports left port 15th and 19th for Greece carrying soldiers who mostly wore ...
( Category: Middle Eastern June 8,2015 )
France 1940 by Philip Nord
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Philip Nord

PART III DEATH COMES TO THE REPUBLIC CHAPTER 5 ARMISTICE France’s Chamber of Deputies and Senate met in joint session on 10 July. The setting was Vichy, a spa town ...
( Category: European June 8,2015 )
Hitler's Last Day Minute by Minute (N)
epub |eng | 2015-04-09 | Author:Emma Craigie & Jonathan Mayo [Craigie, Emma & Mayo, Jonathan]

In his diary the politician Harold Nicolson notes the response of Mrs Grove, his London housekeeper, to the news of the deaths of Mussolini and Clara Petacci. Mrs Groves thinks ...
( Category: World War II June 7,2015 )
Hemingway on Hunting by Ernest Hemingway
epub |eng | | Author:Ernest Hemingway

“A Good Country” (from Green Hills of Africa) It is easier to keep well in a good country by taking simple precautions than to pretend that a country which is ...
( Category: Hunting June 6,2015 )
RAF Special Duties by Pateman Colin
epub |eng | 2014-12-29 | Author:Pateman, Colin

In February 1945, the Stirling bombers that had struggled to perform to the high demands of jamming operations were eventually exchanged for the superior Halifax. No. 199 Squadron was the ...
( Category: World War II June 2,2015 )
In Defense of Freedom: Stories of Courage and Sacrifice of World War II Army Air Forces Flyers by Samuel Wolfgang W. E
epub |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Samuel, Wolfgang W. E.

Lieutenant Colonel Mixson at RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk, England, in 1952, posing with members of the RAF Special Duty Flight. Flight Commander John Crampton stands to Mixson’s left. A group picture ...
( Category: Veterans June 2,2015 )
The Battle of Britain (General Aviation) by Moore Kate
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:Moore, Kate [Moore, Kate]

Three days later Hitler made what he referred to as his ‘Last Appeal to Reason’ to the British government and the British people. Addressing an electrified Reichstag Hitler declared, ‘A ...
( Category: Great Britain June 1,2015 )
1944: The Second World War in the Air in Photographs by Archard L
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Archard, L. [Archard, L.]

Two views of the Martin factory at Offut, Nebraska, one of four plants where the B-29 Superfortress bomber was assembled. The top picture shows the production line and the second ...
( Category: History June 1,2015 )
A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Carl Shilleto & Mike Tolhurst
epub |eng | | Author:Carl Shilleto & Mike Tolhurst [Shilleto, Carl]

EYEWITNESS I fired unceasingly with my Lewis Gun at the cliff tops. Germans could be seen running into their positions. I tried to adjust my fire by moving the gun ...
( Category: General June 1,2015 )
The Wellington Bomber (Voices in Flight) by Bowman Martin W
azw3 |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Bowman, Martin W [Bowman, Martin W]

Footnotes 80 Rogers later gained a DFM and he was commissioned. He was KIA on 8/9 April 1943 flying as second pilot of a Halifax II on 76 Squadron. 81 ...
( Category: History June 1,2015 )
Stay the Rising Sun: The True Story of USS Lexington, Her Valiant Crew, and Changing the Course of World War II by Phil Keith
epub |eng | 2015-04-30 | Author:Phil Keith [Keith, Phil]

2200, MAY 6, 1942 ADMIRAL’S QUARTERS, USS LEXINGTON Fitch was alone with his thoughts. He idly wondered what his classmate “Jack” Fletcher was doing on board Yorktown, just three miles ...
( Category: Aviation June 1,2015 )

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