World War I
epub |eng | 2010-12-23 | Author:Jilly Cooper [Cooper, Jilly]

It might appear that the average soldier spent more time fighting his camel than the enemy. But the poor beast can be excused his cantankerousness, when one considers how dreadfully ...
( Category: Military Technology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-07 | Author:Richard van Emden [Emden, Richard van]

9 The Big Push A BOY IN YEARS A MAN IN DEEDS 18/596 Private Willie Whitaker 18th West Yorkshire Regiment Killed in Action 1 July 1916, aged 18 In June ...
( Category: Children's Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1993-03-25 | Author:Lyn Macdonald

Chapter 13 It continued more or less fine until 10 August, and the ground dried up sufficiently to allow three divisions of infantry to fight their way up the last ...
( Category: World War I March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Max Hastings

3 SEEDS OF HOPE On 1 September in the French capital, even as L Battery and the Guards brigade were fighting their little battles at Néry and Villers-Cotteret, a momentous ...
( Category: World War I March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Dominic Lieven

if Napoleon wins a battle it will be useless for most certainly the Austrian armies will not permit him to pursue his success: if he loses his fate is decided…the ...
( Category: World War I March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-05-29 | Author:G. J. Meyer

Background * * * OLD WOUNDS UNHEALED JULIUS CAESAR WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO LEARN that a great battle took place at Verdun two millennia after his conquest of Gaul. ...
( Category: World War I March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-07-26 | Author:Giles Foden

TWELVE Mimi and Toutou’s great journey was over. Now they had to prepare for battle. Spicer had his Vice-Admiral’s flag—white with a red circle in the corner—run up a pole ...
( Category: World War I March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-08-03 | Author:Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

15 “The Cossacks Are Coming!” ON AUGUST 5 IN ST. PETERSBURG Ambassador Paléologue of France drove past a regiment of Cossacks leaving for the front. Its general, seeing the French ...
( Category: World War I March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-02 | Author:Richard van Emden

Several of my men were about to stick him with their bayonets, but he had been badly wounded in the face, and was unarmed, so I stopped them. Seeing this, ...
( Category: World War I March 25,2014 )