World War II
epub |eng | 2004-07-05 | Author:John Wukovits [Wukovits, John]

“We’ll Make Our Stand Here” “Shells Came Shrieking Like a Thousand Demons” While Takano’s men swarmed ashore on Wilkes, the other Japanese contingents, among whom was Sub-Lieutenant Ozeki, silently approached ...
( Category: Naval December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Nina Wolff Feld

* Yiddish for “miserable Jews.” CHAPTER 9 It Is Your Moral Duty: DPs Among the Ruins in Austria and Germany Finito, my father’s puppy. While my father was en route ...
( Category: Holocaust December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-03 | Author:John Conen [Conen, John]

The damage suffered to the overhead wires, high tension cables, and gas and water mains in Chiswick High Road disrupted bus and trolleybus services for over a month. Earlier in ...
( Category: World War II December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Hastings, Max [Hastings, Max]

But Macpherson embodied the exact spirit that SHAEF had intended to send with the Jedburghs. He had no interest in clandestine life – he considered that his business was to ...
( Category: France December 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-12 | Author:Christopher Hale

Chapter Ten WEIRD BARBARITY ‘The veil has been torn aside and the naked city [of Lhasa] has been revealed in all its weird barbarity.’ – Colonel Sir Thomas H. Holdich, ...
( Category: Germany December 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Peter Longerich [Longerich, Peter]

Phase II: Women and children With Hitler’s instruction of 16 July and the decision in principle it indicated about the structure of the civil administration, the moment had come for ...
( Category: Germany December 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-02-26 | Author:Tooze, Adam [Tooze, Adam]

Source: M. Harrison, ‘Resource Mobilization for Workd War II’, Economic History Review (1988), 184 III Hitler’s dismissive views about the degeneracy of American society are well documented, but so is ...
( Category: General December 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Charles River Editors

Chapter 9: Midway’s Legacy The Americans had won a stunning victory at Midway, and it allowed for the U.S. not only to even up the crucial carrier numbers game but ...
( Category: World War II December 21,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-11-14 | Author:

The National Fire Service During the war, as part of the ARP, a NFS was formed. It was based on and grew out of the Auxiliary Fire Service originally formed ...
( Category: World War II December 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Laura Hillenbrand

Twenty-five B-29 ON ONE OF THE LAST DAYS OF OCTOBER 1944, LOUIE pushed a wheelbarrow over the Omori bridge, through the village at the bridge’s end, and into Tokyo. With ...
( Category: World War II December 19,2014 )
mobi |rus | 2004-06-29 | Author:Robert Kurson

By Chatterton’s calculation, it should take no more than a week to receive the answer. For his part, Kohler continued to rampage through historical texts, learning the patrols of America-bound ...
( Category: State & Local December 19,2014 )
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, pdf |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 )