World War I
epub |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Diana Preston [Preston, Diana]

17 - WAVE UPON WAVE As the ship’s list increased, so did the despair of those still trapped on board. Fireman O’Connell, running along the deck, saw two women crying ...
( Category: World War I January 31,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:Lawrence, T. E. [Lawrence, T. E.]

CHAPTER LX VESSELS steamed up the Gulf of Akaba. Feisal landed, and with him Jaafar, his staff, and Joyce, the fairy godmother. There came the armoured cars, Goslett, Egyptian labourers ...
( Category: World War I January 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-16 | Author:W. Douglas Fisher

Dr. George I. Lythcott (courtesy Michael J. Lythcott). The Lythcott brothers arrived after the riots, but the city’s stigma was there. Many other professional African Americans had left Tulsa by ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-29 | Author:Duncan Marlor

So there was to be no accountability to Parliament at large on the Government’s decision for war. The country might be in the war by the time Parliament debated it. ...
( Category: Great Britain January 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Margaret MacMillan [MacMillan, Margaret]

GERMANY COULD MANAGE without Italy, and in the event did, but in the last decade before the Great War it badly needed to hang on to Austria-Hungary. In spite of ...
( Category: Diplomacy January 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Nigel Cave, Jack Sheldon

1st Division This slightly unreal situation extended to 1/SWB, the right battalion of 1st Division. Despite the fact that the great weight of two attacks were taking place less than ...
( Category: World War I January 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Philip Jenkins

The “Hate Song” remained popular throughout both world wars. Yet despite receiving high praise from the court and the army, the song’s fanatical sentiments made it controversial among the Far ...
( Category: General January 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Dennis E. Showalter [Showalter, Dennis E.]

PART III THE BLOOD-SWOLLEN GOD 7 The Province of Uncertainty I On a map, the advance of the Russian 2nd Army was a deadly thrust. An attack northwest towards the ...
( Category: World War I January 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Douglas Newton

Monday 3 August Asq[uith] then said ‘Burns has resigned; Morley, Simon, Beauchamp also going; many others uneasy: the Cabinet with much shattered authority in [a] time of great stress.’1 ‘Loulou’ ...
( Category: Great Britain January 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-24 | Author:Carole McEntee-Taylor [McEntee-Taylor, Carole]

Pte Harry Dunkinfield-Jones. Kind permission of John Hamblin. ​​​​​ The 2nd Royal Scots were joined by A and D Companies in the front line north of Kemmel while B and ...
( Category: World War I December 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-24 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

CHAPTER 24 The Minefields The whole fourteen-mile length of the Straits from the entrance at Cape Helles up to the Narrows at Chanak was within range of different types of ...
( Category: England December 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Peter F Batchelor

Battle of Festubert After sixty hours – the longest artillery bombardment of the war to date – the battalion, having moved up to its assembly positions during the night, prepared ...
( Category: Veterans December 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:Gerald Gliddon

On 8 August Coury was made a full lieutenant, but he had decided to transfer to the RFC and on 28 August joined No. 13 Squadron at Savy Aubigny, north-west ...
( Category: General December 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-10 | Author:Martin Middlebrook [Middlebrook, Martin]

As the morning drew to a close, the battlefield lost some of the noise and violence of the early, intense fighting. Where an attack had been successful, the troops rested ...
( Category: World War I December 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-16 | Author:James Barr

17 Dara or Azrak? (15–21 November 1917) Lawrence reappeared, unexpectedly perhaps, in Aqaba on 26 November, having ridden non-stop for three days from Azraq. Almost immediately, he wrote up in ...
( Category: Great Britain December 17,2015 )