Search results for "battle"
epub |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Geoffrey Bennett [Bennett, Geoffrey]

This in large part explains the Admiralty’s failings which led to Coronel. Seriously defective though the machine was, it cannot absolve from responsibility those who were at the controls at ...
( Category: Military March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-29 | Author:Peter C. Smith

Renown as first completed in 1916. (Vice-Admiral B.C.B. Brooke) Renown passing through the Suez Canal, 1921. (W.F.J. Waller) Renown passing through the Panama Canal locks, 1927. (Peter C. Smith) Damage ...
( Category: Engineering March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Chris Peers

First Forays into Central Asia As early as 200 BC the Emperor Kao-ti had encountered the problem of dealing with horse-archer armies when he led an army in pursuit of ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robin Givhan

Ten Waiting Early on Sunday morning, November 25, jet lag and adrenaline playing a tug-of-war with everyone’s bodies, the designers and models, who had not even been to their hotel, ...
( Category: Fashion Design March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-30 | Author:Vice Admiral John Harper & Admiral Reginald Bacon

DIAGRAM 3 It is difficult enough to judge the change in position of a ship during the time a projectile is flying through the air when firing at long ranges, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:Donahue, Arthur

30. A Spitfire pilot trying to avoid cannon shells fired from an Me 109 on his tail. One came at me from the side, his guns blazing out their tracers ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-20 | Author:Philip Gibbs [Gibbs, Philip]

THE HIGH GROUND AT POZffiRES 171 The new part of the German second line now in our hands makes up with the other part of his line captured on July ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:C. P. Stacey [Stacey, C. P.]

The Canadian Army Takes Over By this period, General Crerar's Canadian Army Headquarters had already taken over a section of the front. It was indicative of the manner in which ...
( Category: Europe March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-07 | Author:Michael Collins [Collins, Michael]

THOMAS HOLMES, INTELLIGENCE AND RECONNAISSANCE PLATOON, 54TH ARMORED INFANTRY BATTALION We were told to patrol on a road that was south of Bastogne and Marvie. O’Hara wanted us to take ...
( Category: other March 2,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:Philip Kaplan [Kaplan, Philip]

A WAAF barrage balloon detachment at work in Portsmouth, England, 1940. “Christ, I’m on fire!” Chumley yelled. There was smoke sweeping past Roger’s plane and he saw the propeller blades ...
( Category: other March 2,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Frank McLynn [McLynn, Frank]

8 Tostig THE YEAR 1064 saw the three greatest warriors of Western Europe at their apogee: William of Normandy had conquered Maine, captured le Mans, sacked Mayenne and built castles ...
( Category: Great Britain March 2,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Max Hastings; Simon Jenkins

Below decks, men were priming grenades, checking weapons, loading linked-belt ammunition, dozing or reading. As the light began to fade, they knew that they had survived the first great risk. ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 2,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-21 | Author:J.E.G. Dixon

The author concludes the episode with the laconic note: ‘Churchill,’ she added, ‘seemed satisfied with the reply.’ A politician who had once been Secretary of State for Air and who ...
( Category: other March 1,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-28 | Author:David Coles & Peter Sherrard

RAF – F1 Fighter (60); F3 fighter bomber (132); FR4 fighter/ reconnaissance (12): PR2 photo reconnaissance (5). RN – (Sea Hornet) F fighter (73); NF21 nght fighter (72); PR photo/reconnaissance ...
( Category: Miniatures March 1,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-07-29 | Author:Luke Knight [Knight, Luke]

FREEDOM FROM FEAR If you view porn, there are likely to be consequences sooner or later. There’s a proverb that you can take the jar to water many times but ...
( Category: other March 1,2020 )