World War I
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Desagneau, Henri

25 April Alert at dawn. We are off to Coigneux to take up positions in case of attack. At 6.30 p.m. we return. Our route is scattered with huge English ...
( Category: World War I July 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Kevin J McNamara

The Seizure of Siberia THE SAME DAY that Trotsky issued his threatening order, the legionnaires attacked. Their first priority was to link all the legionnaires in a single chain—especially those ...
( Category: General July 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-26 | Author:Tom Curran

CHAPTER 6 The Dardanelles Commission A combination of public criticism and Parliamentary pressure forced the Asquith government to convene a Royal Commission enquiry in 1916 to determine how and why ...
( Category: World War I June 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Nigel Cave

Once at Bully Craters I discovered that the enemy were very close to our gallery. We were then on the defensive on this front, and had laid a small charge ...
( Category: World War I May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Miranda Seymour

PART TWO From Versailles to the Verge of War (1919–40) 18 LOVE AMONG THE RUINS (1919–23) The challenge facing the modest and quietly spoken Friedrich Ebert as the first president ...
( Category: European April 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-07 | Author:Martin Pegler

Neither was the use of periscopes limited to observation, for a number of inventors immediately appreciated their possible use for mounting to a rifle, to enable it to be fired ...
( Category: World War I April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Andrew Robertshaw & David Kenyon

HYGIENE AND CLEANLINESS After eating and drinking the next preoccupation of the soldier in the trenches was trying to stay clean and healthy, a task which, given the frequently filthy ...
( Category: World War I April 21,2016 )
epub |ara | 2014-03-11 | Author:McDonald, Hamish

Chapter 12 ISLAND FORTRESS Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. — The Art of War by Sun Tzu Hong ...
( Category: World War I March 14,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-01-26 | Author:Anthony Sattin [Sattin, Anthony]

* Thompson stayed in Surrey for the next two years, excavated in Egypt in 1913 and fought in Mesopotamia in World War I. † Woolley’s reputation today rests on his ...
( Category: World War I March 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Diana Preston [Preston, Diana]

17 - WAVE UPON WAVE As the ship’s list increased, so did the despair of those still trapped on board. Fireman O’Connell, running along the deck, saw two women crying ...
( Category: World War I January 31,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:Lawrence, T. E. [Lawrence, T. E.]

CHAPTER LX VESSELS steamed up the Gulf of Akaba. Feisal landed, and with him Jaafar, his staff, and Joyce, the fairy godmother. There came the armoured cars, Goslett, Egyptian labourers ...
( Category: World War I January 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-16 | Author:W. Douglas Fisher

Dr. George I. Lythcott (courtesy Michael J. Lythcott). The Lythcott brothers arrived after the riots, but the city’s stigma was there. Many other professional African Americans had left Tulsa by ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-29 | Author:Duncan Marlor

So there was to be no accountability to Parliament at large on the Government’s decision for war. The country might be in the war by the time Parliament debated it. ...
( Category: Great Britain January 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Margaret MacMillan [MacMillan, Margaret]

GERMANY COULD MANAGE without Italy, and in the event did, but in the last decade before the Great War it badly needed to hang on to Austria-Hungary. In spite of ...
( Category: Diplomacy January 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Nigel Cave, Jack Sheldon

1st Division This slightly unreal situation extended to 1/SWB, the right battalion of 1st Division. Despite the fact that the great weight of two attacks were taking place less than ...
( Category: World War I January 6,2016 )