World War II
epub |eng | | Author:Ray Moseley

Before the Italian surrender, correspondents heard reports it was near. “I expected that,” Reynolds Packard told Quentin Reynolds. “I have complete faith in the Italians. They’ve double-crossed every ally they ...
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Clarke

FOURTEEN POINTS OF VIEW Part Two WAR AND PEACE 9 Agenda for the Hall of Mirrors: Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Wilson There was to be no ‘peace without victory’ in 1917. ...
( Category: Economic History April 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-04 | Author:Donald Stratton

WE TRIED TO follow the war, especially the battles in the Pacific. We got bits and pieces from the nurses and from Frosty. There was a radio in the ward, ...
( Category: World War II November 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-18 | Author:Kenneth Macksey [Macksey, Kenneth]

The very fact of the war’s continuance at that time underlined the bankruptcy of Göring’s strategic concepts. By then, had he agreed to pass operational control of any significant part ...
( Category: Military September 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-10 | Author:Robert W. Walker [Walker, Robert W.]

158 ROBERT W. WALKER “Operation?” “Business. Do you do business say with Shanks and Gwinn from time to time?” “Only in the past. They’re out of the business.” “Then who ...
( Category: Police Procedurals August 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-06-14 | Author:Stephen Budiansky [Budiansky, Stephen]

A cartoon from the NSA newsletter; the “Meademobile,” parked at Arlington Hall, provided employees information about the Fort Meade area in advance of the agency’s move there in 1957. To ...
( Category: Logic June 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 1975-12-31 | Author:Spike Milligan

June 5th, Friday 1943 “There’s wild pigs, up the mountain,” the information was imparted by one Mahmoud, an Arab who came scrounging fags and whose head was therefore a mass ...
( Category: World War II December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1977-12-31 | Author:Spike Milligan

November 24, 1943 My diary: UP VERY EARLY TO CONTACT OUR GUN POSITION. RECEPTION STRENGTH 9, BUT THE OP STRENGTH 1. WILL TRY AND PUT UP VERY LONG AERIAL. Fildes’ ...
( Category: European December 8,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-05-12 | Author:George Wilson

Next morning broke clear and cold as I led the company out into attack the first time as its commander. As planned, the lead platoon went up through G Company ...
( Category: World War II May 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-07 | Author:Laurence Rees [Rees, Laurence]

Sir Owen O'Malley, British Ambassador to the Polish government-in-exile based in London. He wrote two key reports about the Katyn massacre. The ruins of Stalingrad. Around half a million Soviet ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union April 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Levenda, Peter [Levenda, Peter]

* * * 115 Dr. Milan Bulajic, “Jasenovac—work camp or the system of Ustasha camps of genocide?” in the Second International Conference of Jasenovac—System of the Croatian Ustashe genocide camps ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies April 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-23 | Author:Greg Robinson

ANGLER CAMP The “troublemakers” among Japanese Canadians were interned by the government in Angler, Ontario (some were held first at Petawawa). The origins of these 750-odd Issei and Nisei men, ...
( Category: Canadian March 28,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-16 | Author:Neal R. Burger & George E. Simpson [Burger, Neal R. & Simpson, George E.]

Hopalong Cassidy was stretched out on his stomach, checking the last of the stop valves, when the Captain’s order came over the speaker. “Chief engineer, chief engineer,” he grumbled. “Always ...
( Category: World War II March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:Lizzie Collingham [Collingham, Lizzie]

14 The Soviet Union – Fighting on Empty Hunger and cold held our people in their merciless grip. (Victor Kravchenko, head of the Department of War Engineering Armament for Russia)1 ...
( Category: Agriculture & Food Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-02-23 | Author:Brokaw, Tom [Brokaw, Tom]

LOVE, MARRIAGE, AND COMMITMENT The World War II generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility, and the marriage vow: “For better or for worse . . ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )