Russia
epub |eng | 2015-08-25 | Author:Prit Buttar [Buttar, Prit]

Bukovina, May 1915 On 9 May, the Russian XXXIII Corps began to cross the River Dniester at Kopaczyńce, brushing aside the German 9th Cavalry Brigade. Reinforcements hastily dispatched to the ...
( Category: Europe September 19,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-07-24 | Author:Sergey Yarov [Yarov, Sergey]

The paramedics, when they arrived, roughly shoved him into the ambulance, and that was the last Irina saw of him. She could not locate him in either the mortuaries or ...
( Category: Military September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Alan Palmer [Palmer, Alan]

Mme de Staël was also presented to the Empress Elizabeth, whom she describes as ‘the tutelary angel of Russia’, a rare ‘instance of concord between power and virtue’. ‘Her manners ...
( Category: Russia September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-17 | Author:Timothy J. Colton

His medical issues, and his tendency not to look after them, dated back decades. The tonsil infection and rheumatic fever at UPI, when Yeltsin refused the bed rest prescribed, foretold ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Ian Grey [Grey, Ian]

The First Five-year Plan was a program of production targets and slogans for Stalin’s assault on Russia’s backwardness. It came into operation in 1928 but was approved only in April ...
( Category: Russia September 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-10-31 | Author:William Lubbeck

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: Military September 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-25 | Author:Alex Goldfarb & Marina Litvinenko [Goldfarb, Alex & Litvinenko, Marina]

Sasha’s trial began in early October. The hearing was closed; Marina had to wait in the hallway. All she could think about was how to catch a glimpse of Sasha ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-12-01 | Author:John Steinbeck

The hay in the little barn was sweet. Rabbits in a cage against the wall rustled and nibbled in the dark. On the other side of the mud wall a ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 14,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-07-31 | Author:Rear-Adm. Ellis M. Zacharias [Zacharias, Rear-Adm. Ellis M.]

17. THE MOBILIZATION OF THE COMINFORM THE DEPLOYMENT of the marshals is a most significant move. It shows that the U.S.S.R. is now determined to back up its dynamic diplomacy ...
( Category: Military September 12,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-13 | Author:Larissa Vasilieva [Vasilieva, Larissa]

Apart from this testimony, Egorova’s files contain absolutely no evidence of any crime. Yet the court transcript of her sentencing proceedings in Moscow, on August 27, 1938, states: “The case ...
( Category: World September 12,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-08-15 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose [Ambrose, Stephen E.]

CHAPTER SIX - Learning to Fly in Combat THE AAF POLICY IN THE FALL OF 1944was to have the pilots fly their first five combat missions as co-pilots with a ...
( Category: Military September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-05 | Author:Bierman, John [Bierman, John]

In the second week of January 1945 Wallenberg’s private intelligence service brought him word that Eichmann’s plan for the total massacre of the General Ghetto was soon to be carried ...
( Category: Military September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-10 | Author:David Edmonds [Edmonds, David and Eidinow, John]

Fischer off-stage continues to command almost all the attention. In the press, much of it makes for uncomfortable reading. The Washington Post agonizes that “Fischer has alienated millions of chess ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:Masha Gessen [Gessen, Masha]

NOVEMBER 1999, BIALYSTOK I have lunch at New York Bagels across the street from the Cristall Hotel. Leonard Cohen is dancing to the end of love on the stereo; framed ...
( Category: World September 10,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:Alexandrov, Vladimir [Alexandrov, Vladimir]

Between five thousand and seven thousand people had been killed. But on November 20, Moscow’s Military-Revolutionary Committee announced that it had won and that all the cadets and its other ...
( Category: Historical September 10,2017 )