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Fetch the Devil by Clint Richmond
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Clint Richmond

During the early days of the investigation, Sheriff Fox was led to believe that Frome was little more than a glorified salesman, albeit for one of America’s largest explosives manufacturing ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2017 )
Invasion Diary by Richard Tregaskis
epub |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Richard Tregaskis

SEPTEMBER 18 This afternoon, I heard at 5th Army Headquarters that Col. Tucker and his men had regained their position on the heights commanding Altavilla; that the fall of the ...
( Category: World War II March 30,2017 )
Shadow Warriors of World War II : The Daring Women of the Oss and Soe (9781613730898) by Thomas Gordon; Lewis Greg
epub |eng | 2016-03-29 | Author:Thomas, Gordon; Lewis, Greg

After a five-day voyage across the Atlantic, the OSS women disembarked at Southampton in their Women’s Army Corps uniforms and had the first sight of bomb damage as they were ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage March 30,2017 )
Lucky 666 by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

PART III Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. —T. S. Eliot 19 “A MOTLEY COLLECTION OF OUTCASTS” RECONNAISSANCE. THE ...
( Category: World War II February 27,2017 )
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mazower Mark
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-03-07 | Author:Mazower, Mark [Mazower, Mark]

COUNTER-INSURGENCIES The myth of the ‘good Italian’ did not die in the mountains of Montenegro, as Governor Pirzio Biroli had hoped. After the war it flourished – at least in ...
( Category: World War II February 27,2017 )
Shot Down: The Secret Diary of One POW's Long March to Freedom by Kerr Alex
azw3 |eng | 2017-01-18 | Author:Kerr, Alex [Kerr, Alex]

CHAPTER 17 ON THE LOOSE, 1942 We emerged in our twos and threes, faces and hands blackened, knives, other implements and rations concealed in our clothing. We had to crawl ...
( Category: World War II February 25,2017 )
Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945 by Francis Pike
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-18 | Author:Francis Pike [Pike, Francis]

is a growing incidence of scrub typhus here … There are some tremendous rats in the area, and no doubt the fleas on same are carrying the infection from the ...
( Category: Japan February 24,2017 )
Red Blood, Black Sand: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima by Tatum Chuck
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Tatum, Chuck [Tatum, Chuck]

Pillbox Bustin’ Aided as we were by tanks, afternoon gains were better than those previously achieved; however, heavy fighting continued against stubborn enemy resistance. We were still receiving sporadic mortar ...
( Category: World War II February 20,2017 )
Hemingway at War by Terry Mort
epub |eng | 2016-12-08 | Author:Terry Mort

To Hemingway, Paris was a city of memory and nostalgia, the place where he had served his apprenticeship as a writer, the place where he and his first wife, Hadley, ...
( Category: World War II December 9,2016 )
They Fought In The Fields by Nicola Tyrer
epub |eng | | Author:Nicola Tyrer

When the call for duty rang out, I was one of those thousands who decided that our homes and farms were worth fighting for. We left behind those who were ...
( Category: World War II December 3,2016 )
Louisville in World War II by Bruce M. Tyler
epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Bruce M. Tyler

Chester C. Doherty (top row), first lieutenant colonel and assistant commandant of the School of Air Evacuation, and, from left to right, Captains Edwin McBride and John Horton and Maj. ...
( Category: State & Local November 23,2016 )
Double Ace by Robert Coram
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Coram

21 LEAVING CHINA Chennault’s genius for tactics and Scott’s genius for colorful leadership turned the Twenty-third into a fast-moving, nimble, and unpredictable combat organization that had an impact far out ...
( Category: World War II August 24,2016 )
Death on the Hellships by Gregory F. Michno
epub |eng | 2016-06-21 | Author:Gregory F. Michno

THE SUMMER SHIPS The threat of the approaching Americans made the tropical Philippine atmosphere even more feverish in the summer of 1944. Prisoners were shifted among the islands and from ...
( Category: World War II August 21,2016 )
Central Florida's World War II Veterans by Bob Grenier
epub |eng | 2016-08-18 | Author:Bob Grenier

The Apopka Veterans Memorial is located in Kit Nelson Park, which is situated off Park Avenue between First Street and Orange Street. This monument, created by Preston Willingham, was donated ...
( Category: Veterans August 19,2016 )
World War II Soviet Armed Forces (1) by Nigel Thomas
epub |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:Nigel Thomas

The M35 rank insignia retained the M19 system of red diamonds, bars, squares and triangles, but these were now edged in gold (yellow metal). In addition, combat arm officers wore ...
( Category: World War II August 7,2016 )

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