mobi, epub |eng | 2004-02-15 | Author:Martin Gilbert

Note on Sources The material in this lecture is taken from my book Churchill: A Life, as well as from the six volumes of the Churchill biography, Winston S. Churchill, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-06 | Author:Andrew Roberts

When the two sides resumed their meeting at 3 p.m., the Combined Chiefs of Staff had before them a draft note setting out tentative agreements. A deal had been brokered ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Mark Ryan

On New Year’s Day, Emmy Valentin called into Sneum’s flat. She pulled out a napkin containing some crude sketches and explained that she had persuaded her Abwehr officer, after several ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2000-05-02 | Author:James Bradley & Ron Powers

Nine D-DAY PLUS TWO Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem. —RONALD REAGAN A STORM LASHED IN FROM THE OCEAN; ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-12 | Author:Denis Avey

Chapter 12 Evening was approaching and I knew the British POWs would soon start to assemble fifty yards away from the stripeys for the march back to E715. I could ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1986-06-26 | Author:Spike Milligan

* * * Transcribed newspaper cutting from the Union Jack, 1945 The compère for the contest is Captain Philip Ridgeway, the announcer. He is as informed on Dance Bands as ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-29 | Author:Paul Kennedy [Kennedy, Paul]

a The term blitzkrieg gets used, often sloppily, to cover different though related things. Literally, it translates as “lightning war.” As such, it could be applied to many campaigns (that ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-09 | Author:Mark Zuehlke

[18] Piece of Cake WHEN II CANADIAN Corps’s divisions had begun their drive through Holland and western Germany, the attached 1st Infantry Division had remained at the IJssel River to ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Jonathan Trigg

The Germanske SS Norge (Norwegian SS) parade through Oslo in 1943 on the official ‘SS Day’ – which was also Norway’s National Day. (James Macleod) Two Norwegian SS men (GSSN) ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Andrew Martin

But this was different. A full hour after first hearing the roar of the Dapha through the trees, the Mackrell party was still cutting through steeply descending jungle. At the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-10 | Author:Andrew Roberts

* As the Russians made their way along the Baltic coast, the Germans had to relocate their U-boat fleet to Norway. Although their number peaked at the huge figure of ...

epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:Annie Jacobsen

The same month that the standoff between the State Department and the JIOA began, the Chemical Corps finally imported its first German scientist, an expert in tabun nerve agent synthesis ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-07-13 | Author:Madhusree Mukerjee

“AFTER THE FLOOD we started a vegetable garden,” said Chitto Samonto. His family owned less than a half-acre of land, but because many of the local people had died or ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Rick Atkinson [Atkinson, Rick]

Part Four 10. ARGONAUTS Citizens of the World MORNING sun and a tranquil breeze carried hints of an early Mediterranean spring across Grand Harbour, where strains of “The Star-Spangled Banner” ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-11-27 | Author:Hillenbrand, Laura [Laura, Hillenbrand,]

Twenty-five B-29 ON ONE OF THE LAST DAYS OF OCTOBER 1944, LOUIE pushed a wheelbarrow over the Omori bridge, through the vilage at the bridge’s end, and into Tokyo. With ...