World War I
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Gregg Adams

The Kashmir Mountain Battery (part of the Rajah of Kashmir’s Army and not a unit of the British Indian Army) going into position at Nyangao. The sterling performance of Kashmiri ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:René Chartrand

Vimy Ridge On 9 April 1917, Easter Monday, the Canadian Corps attacked the previously impregnable German positions at Vimy Ridge. By mid-afternoon the initial objectives had been taken, with some ...
( Category: Engineering March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ferrell, Robert H.

From CO 1st Bn., 110th Eng. at Foret Argonne 03.3.77.64, 29 Sept. 9:35 a.m. I am moving this bn. forward to draw one kilometer south of this post. P.C. will ...
( Category: World War I March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:William Geroux

CHAPTER TEN ARKHANGELSK In the days of the czars, Archangel—Arkhangelsk in Russian—had been a great cosmopolitan city, a jewel of Northern Europe. It was a historic seaport, founded in 1584 ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-23 | Author:Everard J. Bullis

Everard’s dog tags and other items (courtesy Robert G. Bullis). Everard’s dog tags (courtesy Robert G. Bullis). Our training was nearly completed. We were in good condition, but we had ...
( Category: World War I March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-17 | Author:Jeffrey T. Sammons

11 The Big Push Offensives in Champagne/Meuse-Argonne and the Capture of Séchault, September 7–October 4, 1918 In the afternoon of September 7, a French motorcycle courier decelerated in front of ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-04 | Author:Jonathan Ferguson

‘Stopping power’ Another important consideration was the nebulous concept of so-called ‘stopping power’. In an era when this power was believed to derive from the ‘shock’ effect of a big, ...
( Category: Firearms March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-21 | Author:Dan van der Vat [VAN DER, DAN]

The position of commodore, signified by a single broad gold stripe on the sleeve, is not a true rank in the Royal Navy but only a mark of special responsibility ...
( Category: World War I March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Svetlana Palmer & Sarah Wallis [Palmer, Svetlana and Wallis, Sarah]

One of Paul Hub’s letters to his fiancée, Maria Thumm 2nd June, Audenarde Dear Parents, I am well. The journey took us through Bietigheim, Bruchsal, Mannheim, Mainz, Bingen, Koblenz, Bonn, ...
( Category: Essays March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:George A. Birmingham [Birmingham, George A.]

CHAPTER XI ANOTHER JOURNEY "'Tis but in vain for soldiers to complain. " That jingle occurs over and over again in Wolfe Tone's autobiography. It contains his philosophy of life. ...
( Category: World War I March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-02 | Author:Wayne Stack

1918–19 During much of 1918 the Mounted Rifles carried out patrol and outpost duties in the Jordan Valley, as well as forming part of a number of large raiding forces ...
( Category: World War I March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:S. A. An-sky & Polly Zavadivker

FEBRUARY 9 I left for Tarnów. A fatigued soldier from the Baturin Regiment drove me. Along the way he said this: “During the Japanese campaign, the officers were reprimanded for ...
( Category: World War I March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-04 | Author:John Buchan [Buchan, John]

THE FALL OF GUILLEMONT AND GINCHY. On Sunday, September 3rd, the whole Allied front pressed forward. In the early morning the Australians attacked on the extreme left—near Mouquet Farm and ...
( Category: World War I March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-17 | Author:Simon Mills

12 THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM The ten months that followed the Ballard expedition are still something of a blur. Immediately after returning from Kea I found myself on a six-month shoot ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-18 | Author:Steven Heys

Meadows described the Leipzig defenses and the remorseless nature of the fighting: The nature of the Leipzig defenses, a maze of trenches and underground saps, made advancing into the area ...
( Category: World War I March 17,2020 )