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Auftragstaktik

How Prussia Learned to Fight, 1757–1870

What the Drums No Longer Said Frederick II, Scharnhorst, Moltke, the Duke of Brunswick, MacMahon, Wimpffen, and Napoleon III are historical figures, and the battles here follow the documented record as closely as fiction allows. Martin Lenz, Ludwig von Arnstett, Georg Bartel, and Reinhold Achterberg never existed. This time the

Story dramatises a real action

A story of the Special Boat Service, Kabul, 15 April 2012

Eight and a Half Hours The muezzin's call came in twice that morning before the shooting started, and Corporal Callum Fraser lay on a rooftop in Wazir Akbar Khan with his cheek against warm concrete and thought, not for the first time, that Kabul was the strangest posting

A small prologue

How Do You Describe, in Words, Something That Can Only Be Understood by Living It?

(A small prologue or draft, for a new story). 0:00 /10:33 1×   Author’s note: A small prologue or draft of a new science fiction story, not based on a real event but a fiction, novel and drama through creative fascination, curiosity and experimental desire to develop a

El Dorado

The Quesada Expedition and the Fall of Bacatá, 1536–1537

Audio story The Quesada Expedition BattlefieldWitnessCom0:00/2403.5201361×

The Field at Cannae

Sosylus of Lacedaemon and Hannibal Barca

The Fourth Book Being the eighth book of Sosylus of Lacedaemon, which no one commissioned Ephesus, in the consulship of Marcus Claudius Marcellus and Quintus Fabius Labeo (the thirty-third year after the field at Cannae) The agent wanted the fourth book and nothing else. He was a Rhodian, or

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Operation Desert Storm

Left Hook A story of Operation Desert Storm I. Riyadh — 6 August 1990 The map wasn't finished yet. That was the first thing Captain Diane Kessler noticed when she was walked into the annex behind the Ministry of Defense and Aviation building in Riyadh — a room still smelling

de Havilland Mosquito

Operation Jericho

The Straight Road A story of the de Havilland Mosquito. Based on the true events of Operation Jericho, 18 February 1944. The Amiens raid, its squadrons, timings, and the deaths of Group Captain Percy Pickard and Flight Lieutenant Bill Broadley are drawn from the historical record. Flying Officer Tom Garrety,

Piracy

The Golden Age of Piracy

Articles of Agreement A story of the Golden Age of Piracy, 1716–1718 I. HMS Seaflower, the Bahama Channel — March 1716 The cat came down nine times, and Thomas Rooke counted every one, because counting was the only thing left him. One. The rope bit through the wet shirt they&

Dambusters Raid

A Story of Operation Chastise

After Me, the Flood, the Dambusters Raid, - Audio AStoryofOperationChastiseAudioBattlefieldWitness0:00/2371.6144671×

1815

The Battle of Waterloo

The Last Ground Waterloo, 18 June 1815 Part One: Before the Guns — Dawn to Eleven O'Clock The rain had stopped sometime before three in the morning, but nobody who was lying in the rye fields south of Mont-Saint-Jean had slept through it long enough to notice.

The Battle of Holowczyn

The Swedish Carolean army

"The River God Sends", a story of the Battle of Holowczyn, 4 July 1708. Voice reading: TheRiverGodSendsBattlefieldWitnessComNEW0:00/1427.4213151×

Civil_War

The Irish Brigade, voice reading part of this story

IrishBrigadepartofstory1byBattlefieldWitnessCom0:00/104.594251× The Irish BrigadeClear the Way A story of the Irish Brigade, Army of the Potomac, 1861–1862 I. Castle Garden, August 1861 He came off the ship at Castle Garden on a Tuesday morning in the third week of August, with four shillings and sixpence sewn

Sierra Leone

A British rescue operation

D Company, 1 PARA. Sierra Leone. 10 September 2000. I. The Chinook smelled of JP-8 aviation fuel, wet kit, and the particular quiet of men who had been told the odds and chosen not to discuss them. Danny Kavanagh sat with his SA80 between his knees and the dark

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The Irish Brigade

Clear the Way A story of the Irish Brigade, Army of the Potomac, 1861–1862 I. Castle Garden, August 1861 He came off the ship at Castle Garden on a Tuesday morning in the third week of August, with four shillings and sixpence sewn into the coat lining and a

Sengoku period

THE FOG DOES NOT LIFT

A Story of the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima Hachimanbara Plain, Shinano Province. The eighteenth day of the ninth month, Eiroku 4. What the West would call October, 1561. I. Ōishi Ryōken set out his needles in order of length. This was a discipline from his first campaign, thirty years ago

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160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment

STAR 41

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GSG-9

OPERATION FIRE MAGIC

The Battle of Panipat Featured

Battle of Panipat 1526 – Historical Witness Account

Panipat, 21 April 1526 — A Witness Account   I.   Before Dawn The slow-match smelled of burning rope and something older — sulphur, the scent of the underworld made portable, tucked into the fingers of men who stood fifty paces apart along the length of the cart-wall. Mirza Yusuf had smelled

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WW2 Submarine Story – USS Garfish Fiction voice first part

Voice reading the first part of this story USS GarfishfirstpartBattlefieldWitnessCom0:00/377.234251× WW2 Submarine Story – USS Garfish FictionUSS Garfish (SS-411) — South China Sea, fourteen miles southwest of Formosa October 1944 I. The smell came first, as it always did. Diesel and bilge-water and the particular sweetness of

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WW2

The Sound Before the Dawn

Austerlitz Featured

Battle of Austerlitz Story – Witness Account

2 December 1805. A Moravian farmhand watches from the Pratzen Heights as Napoleon's trap closes on the Allied army. An immersive witness account of history's most perfect battle.

Napoleonic Wars, France, 1805, Moravia

Battle of Austerlitz Story – Witness Account ver 2

December 2, 1805 — A Witness Account Moravia, in what is now the Czech Republic. Napoleon Bonaparte commands 73,000 French troops against an Austro-Russian coalition of 85,000. It is the first anniversary of his coronation as Emperor. By nightfall it will be called his masterpiece. 04:30 — The

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The Ground He Stands On

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English victory in the Hundred Years' War

Agincourt: The Archers of Saint Crispin

Battle

Thermopylae historical fiction

A Spartan at Thermopylae, August 480 BC Before the Pass You smell it before you see it. The road north from Trachis bends around a shelf of limestone, and the wind comes off the Malian Gulf carrying salt and something else — a breath of sulphur, deep and mineral, rising from