World War II
epub |eng | | Author:Giles Milton

As they boarded the train at Münsingen station, Wolfram and his comrades still had no idea where they might be sent. Some thought they were heading for the Ukraine. Others ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Downing [Downing, David]

VI During the next few days, as 90th Motorised reconnaissance units moved east along the coastal road in the wake of the retreating British, the defenders and population of the ...
( Category: Germany March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1959-01-01 | Author:Gunter Grass & Breon Mitchell [Grass, Gunter & Mitchell, Breon]

Bebra’s Theater at the Front In mid-June of forty-two, my son Kurt turned one year old. Oskar, his father, took it in stride, thought to himself: Just two short years ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2005-01-25 | Author:Evans, Richard J. [Evans, Richard J.]

To many readers of the newspapers that reported Hitler’s appointment, the jubilation of the brownshirts must have appeared exaggerated. The key feature of the new government, symbolized by the participation ...
( Category: European March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Giles MacDonogh [MacDonogh, Giles]

French Zone The French Zone, which covered the Vorarlberg and most of the Tyrol, was originally run from French HQ in Lindau on Lake Constance in Württemberg. Despite the fraternising ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Lyman

‘Blondie’ Hasler as a newly commissioned Royal Marine Second Lieutenant in 1932. (Mrs Bridget Hasler) The photograph taken of Hasler in Barcelona in late March 1943 for his identity documents, ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mitchell Zuckoff [Zuckoff, Mitchell]

Chapter 19 “SHOO, SHOO BABY” THEIR STOMACHS EMPTY and growling, Walter and his team awoke early to a breakfast of hot water and hope. His top priority was receiving a ...
( Category: Aviation March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph H. Alexander [Alexander, Joseph H.]

* The author is indebted to H. Arthur “Hal” Lamar, flag lieutenant to Nimitz, and Loren F. “Sonny” Paulus, the admiral’s bodyguard, for these personal insights. * The instructors at ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:John Geoghegan [Geoghegan, John]

* According to some accounts, it took almost twice as long to prep the third Seiran. † Robert Mikesh says seven minutes were required to launch each of the first ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1996-07-01 | Author:Robert Leckie [Leckie, Robert]

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 March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Laurence Rees [LAURENCE REES]

Above A Japanese officer brandishing a sword (right) leads his soldiers in an attack on the Chinese in November 1941. This bloody, racist war against the Chinese would continue in ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-12-08 | Author:The Men Who War the Star: The Story of the Texas Rangers [Rangers, The Men Who War the Star: The Story of the Texas]

Chapter 12 The Rise of McNelly’s Rangers The Mason County War was just one of the “difficulties” that caused the decade of the 1870s to be known in Texas as ...
( Category: State & Local March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-12-14 | Author:Stinnett, Robert [Stinnett, Robert]

Radio silence was ignored as more Japanese naval broadcasts hit the airwaves. The first military intercept that specified Pearl Harbor as the target came from Japan’s highest naval commander, Admiral ...
( Category: Leadership March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edwin Black

Although five Germans now sat on the Dehomag board, few of them could appear in Berlin for the rush meeting Heidinger planned for September 19—not even Heidinger himself. Heidinger lived ...
( Category: Holocaust March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-11 | Author:William Lubbeck [Lubbeck, William]

BATTLING IN A SWAMP: April June 1942 When the spring thaw arrived in early April, it swiftly turned the whole Volkhov battlefield into a muddy bog. The warmer weather was ...
( Category: Veterans March 26,2014 )