World War II
mobi |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Robert Leckie

Three flares burst over Kakazu Ridge during the early darkness of April 12. Two were red, the first signaling, “Commence artillery fire,” and the other, “We are attacking with full ...
( Category: Japan December 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-31 | Author:Linge, Heinz [Linge, Heinz]

Chapter 12 Resolving the Polish Question: September 1939 DURING THE WAR HITLER was little more than a warlord, strategist and soldier. He isolated himself from ‘the world’ beyond policymaking and ...
( Category: World War II December 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:Ron Rosenbaum [Rosenbaum, Ron]

CHAPTER 12 David Irving: The Big Oops In which we explore the mind of Hitler’s “Ambassador to the Afterlife,” witness the “Hitler spell” in action, and meet, once again, Hitler ...
( Category: Holocaust December 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 1996-12-31 | Author:Iris Chang

The next morning Rabe awoke to the sound of yet another air raid. Apparently not all of the Chinese army had been forced from of the city, he thought. It ...
( Category: Holocaust December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Jennifer Elkin

CHAPTER 6 RESCUED BY PARTISANS All RAF crew were briefed on, and knew, the official evasion procedure: to conceal lifesaving equipment and move away from the crash site using woods ...
( Category: World War II December 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-18 | Author:Gertrude Stein [Stein, Gertrude]

That was yesterday. I was sitting with the wife of the mayor and in front of us was the main road from everywhere to Culoz. There were quite a few ...
( Category: Authors November 30,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:William L. Shirer [Shirer, William L.]

One battleship! Was it the Bismarck? Admirals and captains went quickly to their chart rooms and marked the given position on their maps. So far as they knew no British ...
( Category: Europe November 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-01-22 | Author:Levi, Primo [Levi, Primo]

It was already night. Contrary to what the sergeant had led us to believe, the most sumptuous abundance reigned inside the barracks; there were lighted stoves, candles and acetylene lamps, ...
( Category: Holocaust November 24,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Ian Gardner

Following dozens of footprints through the woods, Gibson came across two soldiers from I Co face down in the snow and stopped to check. Both were dead. It was just ...
( Category: Veterans November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Max Hastings

FOURTEEN Out of the Desert In 1943, to Winston Churchill and to many British, Russian and American people, it sometimes seemed that the Western Allies spent more time talking than ...
( Category: World War II November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-23 | Author:Jacky Hyams [Jacky Hyams]

CHAPTER 6 LAURA’S STORY: AN ANGEL AND A ROSE ‘WE WERE TINY COGS IN A SECRET ARMY’ Laura Hardwick was born in Trimdon, County Durham, in 1921. She has the ...
( Category: World War II November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-13 | Author:Glass, Charles [Glass, Charles]

TWENTY-THREE The Army is organized throughout for one single purpose—fighting. Psychology for the Fighting Man, p. 325 BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER 1944, the U.S. military in the European Theater ...
( Category: United States November 24,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:Oliver North & Joe Musser

MAJOR MICHAEL RYAN, USMC Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll 22 November 1943 1650 Hours Local I came on active duty as a Marine second lieutenant, a platoon leader, and we were ...
( Category: World War II November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:William Manchester [MANCHESTER, WILLIAM]

Thus the rush of cataclysmic events came down to Tuesday, August 4, 1914, when at midnight Berlin time—11:00 P.M. in London—Grey’s ultimatum to Germany would expire. In Pear Tree Cottage, ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-25 | Author:Oliver North

The strip on the Isle of Vis, where Lt. McGovern landed his “Dakota Belle”—nicknamed for his bride, Eleanor—was less than half the length of a B-24 runway. For his skill ...
( Category: World War II November 23,2014 )