World War II
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:James D. Hornfischer

TASK GROUP 67.4 went to general quarters at 8 p.m. The sea rolled easily under a ten-knot southeasterly wind. The moon had set, leaving the squadron in the dark. The ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Robert J. Mrazek

Nine days later, completely out of the blue, the official reprimand arrived from Ira Eaker, the commanding general of the Eighth Air Force, at Travis’s Forty-first Combat Wing headquarters in ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-02-15 | Author:Rick Atkinson

Mackensen’s troops poked and jabbed for two more days, but without conviction. Kesselring late on Saturday proposed suspending his counteroffensive, and Hitler agreed. “In the end, many hounds will kill ...
( Category: Italy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Antony Beevor

On the Fourth Panzer Army’s front to the south of Stalingrad, German regiments heard the artillery barrages on the morning of 19 November well over sixty miles to their north-west. ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Neil Short & Peter Dennis

The Raid When Esebeck arrived, he read the messages and agreed with Kodré that they should be followed, but just to double-check Kodré rang Stauffenberg, his counterpart in Berlin, who ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-06-06 | Author:Clay Blair

GERMAN NAVAL OPERATIONS In Berlin at the start of the third year of the war, Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, dominated all else. Hitler personally directed the ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Dennis Showalter

II ON APRIL 5, 1942, Hitler issued Directive 41, outlining the operational plan for the summer of 1942. Its focus would be in the south: a major drive toward the ...
( Category: Germany March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Richard J. Evans

‘HELL HAS BROKEN OUT’ I On the Eastern Front, the defeat of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad marked the beginning of a long retreat that was only to end ...
( Category: Germany March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-25 | Author:Richard J. Evans

II The complacent belief of Franz von Papen and his friends that they had Hitler where they wanted him did not last long. The Nazis occupied only three cabinet posts. ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Otto J. Lehrack

CHAPTER 8 THE TAKING OF AN CUONG 2 An Cuong 2 was heavily wooded and fortified. Among its twenty-five to thirty huts were bunkers, trenchlines, and pillboxes. Most were covered ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |pol | 2012-07-24 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

Chapter 8 The First Five Days of June On June 1, the second day on which the Allied troops and vehicles in Britain were being loaded on board ship, the ...
( Category: France March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-12 | Author:Gold, Hal [Gold, Hal]

Soviet demands that Emperor Hirohito face trial for war crimes caused the Japanese great distress, as this recently (1995) released note from the Foreign Ministry to SCAP shows. Pingfang's double ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-08-21 | Author:Leckie, Robert [Leckie, Robert]

A convoy had left Pearl Harbor on that date and it was the Northern Force headed for Roi-Namur. It carried the men of the Fourth Marine Division. They had sailed ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-15 | Author:Max Hastings

The sea below was black and the lower bases of the clouds a dark, dull gray. Then, almost as if in response to a drum roll, there was an explosion ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 1996-07-01 | 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 March 25,2014 )