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Book Synopsis Attack on the Scheldt by : Graham A. Thomas
Download or read book Attack on the Scheldt written by Graham A. Thomas and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of the conflict. The battles in Normandy and on the German frontier have been studied often and in detail, while the fight for the Scheldt estuary, Walcheren and Antwerp itself has been treated as a sideshow. Graham Thomass timely and graphic account underlines the importance of this aspect of the Allied campaign and offers a fascinating insight into a complex combined-arms operation late in the Second World War. Using operational reports and vivid first-hand eyewitness testimony, he takes the reader alongside 21 Army Group as it cleared the Channel ports of Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk, then moved on to attack the Scheldt and the island stronghold of Walcheren. Overcoming entrenched German resistance there was essential to the whole operation, and it is the climax of his absorbing narrative.
Book Synopsis Attack on the Scheldt by : Graham A. Thomas
Download or read book Attack on the Scheldt written by Graham A. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terrible Victory written by Mark Zuehlke and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Zuehlke is an expert at narrating the history of life on the battlefield for the Canadian army during World War II. In Terrible Victory, he provides a soldiers-eye-view account of Canada's bloody liberation of western Holland. Readers are there as soldiers fight in the muddy quagmire, enduring a battle that lasted three weeks and in which 6,000 soldiers perished. Terrible Victory is a powerful story of courage, survival, and skill.
Book Synopsis Battle for Antwerp by : James Louis Moulton
Download or read book Battle for Antwerp written by James Louis Moulton and published by Allan. This book was released on 1978 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHAEF; Allied Expeditionary Force; Breskens Pocket; Canadiske Hær; Engelske Hær; Amerikanske Hær; Tyske Hær; Le Havre; Falaise Gap; Kruisschans Lock; Leopold Canal; General Crerar; Calais; Brussels; Buffaloes; Arnhem; Nijmegen; Ostende; Admiral Ramsey; Belgiske Modstandsbevægelse; von Rundstedt; Rotterdam; Zoutelande; Lt-Gen. Simmonds; Rotterdam; South Beveland; Terneuzen
Download or read book Turning the Key written by Paul M. Crucq and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the final phase of Operation Infatuate-- the Battle of the Scheldt Estuary and the full surrender of German Occupation troops, to liberate Antwerp, Belgium and return the port to Allied hands in November of 1944. The operation consisted of two parts. The first to attack Flushing and secondly, to storm the shattered dike at Westkapelle with units from the British and Canadian armies.
Download or read book Tug of War written by W. Denis Whitaker and published by Toronto, Ont. : Stoddart. This book was released on 1984 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces General Staff, G-2 Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :858 pages Book Rating :4.E/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Summary of Information by : United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces General Staff, G-2
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Download or read book The Cruel Slaughter of Adolf Hitler II written by karsten friedrich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walcheren 1944 written by Richard Brooks and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osprey's study of the Walcheren campaign of World War II (1939-1945). Walcheren is a saucer-shaped island in the estuary of the river Scheldt, commanding maritime access to Antwerp, the largest port in Western Europe. The Allies captured Antwerp intact on September 4, 1944, but their eyes were on the Rhine crossings at Arnhem, not the lower Scheldt. The failure of Operation Market-Garden later that month brought home the Allies' logistical weakness. As autumn gales drew near, every shell and petrol tin had still to be landed at Cherbourg or across the Normandy beaches. Complete US Army divisions were immobilized for lack of transport. It was vital to re-open Antwerp. The continued German presence on Walcheren, however, prevented Allied shipping from entering the Scheldt. In the fall of 1944, Walcheren had the most heavily fortified coastline in the world. Its seaward defences consisted of 30 coastal and field batteries, mounting 50-60 guns from 75mm to 220mm in caliber, manned by high quality naval personnel behind massive concrete emplacements. Supporting strongpoints had anti-aircraft guns, flame-throwers rocket-launchers and Goliath remote controlled demolition vehicles. The sand dunes protecting the low-lying island from the North Sea were laced with barbed wire, mines and dragon's teeth. Defending infantry came from Generalleutnant Wilhelm Daser's 70.Infanterie-Division, a 'white bread division' consisting of men with gastric problems. Allied intelligence estimated the total garrison at 4,000, but 8,000 eventually surrendered. On November 1, 1944, in a double-pronged attack, the men of 52nd (Lowland) Division plus No. 4 Army Commando seized Flushing (Infatuate I) while in the west 4th Special Service Brigade with three Royal Marine Commandos and No. 10 Inter-Allied Commando would take Westkapelle, and fight their way north and south along the dunes, taking the coastal batteries as they went (Infatuate II). All this was to be supported with HMS Warspite and two 15-inch gun monitors; the Support Squadron Eastern Flank (SSEF) with 25 specialized Landing Craft with guns and rockets; 350 Army guns south of the Scheldt, most of them heavier than 25-pounders; and the Typhoon and Spitfire fighter bombers of 84 Group RAF. In fighting described by one survivor as 'worse than Dieppe and D-Day put together' the Army and Royal Marines forced their way ashore, supported by specialized armour and tracked vehicles, and over the next eight days cleared the positions of their German defenders in bitter street fighting. The first Liberty ships unloaded at Antwerp on December 1, just over a fortnight before the Ardennes offensive began. If Walcheren had not fallen when it did, opening Antwerp just in time, the Allies would have been hard pressed to withstand the German attack, or replace the fuel stocks lost in its opening days, let alone cross the Rhine in the following spring, and meet the Russians on the Elbe. The Walcheren campaign was not merely a dramatic combined operation pulled off against the odds; it helped determine the course of the war and the shape of the post-war world.
Author :United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. General Staff, G-2 Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :548 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (26 download)
Book Synopsis Summary of Information. Second Section, General Staff. General Headquarters American Expeditionary Forces. Series 2 by : United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. General Staff, G-2
Download or read book Summary of Information. Second Section, General Staff. General Headquarters American Expeditionary Forces. Series 2 written by United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. General Staff, G-2 and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. General Staff, G-2 Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :338 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
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Download or read book Summary of Air Information written by United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. General Staff, G-2 and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Summary of Air Information. Second Section, General Staff. General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces. March-November 1918. No. 0 to Serial No. 9, 1-103 Inclusive... by : United States. Army. A.E.F., 1917-1919. General Staff
Download or read book Summary of Air Information. Second Section, General Staff. General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces. March-November 1918. No. 0 to Serial No. 9, 1-103 Inclusive... written by United States. Army. A.E.F., 1917-1919. General Staff and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Summary of Air Information. Second Section, General Staff. General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces. March-November 1918. No. 0 to Serial No. 9, 1-103 Inclusive... by : United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. General Staff
Download or read book Summary of Air Information. Second Section, General Staff. General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces. March-November 1918. No. 0 to Serial No. 9, 1-103 Inclusive... written by United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. General Staff and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Eighty-five Days by : Reginald William Thompson
Download or read book The Eighty-five Days written by Reginald William Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Devil's Bridge by : Anthony Tucker-Jones
Download or read book The Devil's Bridge written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late summer of 1944, SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm 'Willi' Bittrich found himself in the Netherlands surveying his II SS Panzer Corps, which was in a poor state having narrowly escaped the defeat in Normandy. He was completely unaware that his command lay directly in the path of a major Allied thrust: the 17 September 1944 launch of the largest airborne and glider operation in the history of warfare. Codenamed Operation Market Garden, it was intended to outflank the German West Wall and 'bounce' the Rhine at Arnhem, from where the Allies could strike into the Ruhr, Nazi Germany's industrial heartland. Such a move could have ended the war. However, Market Garden and the battle for Arnhem were a disaster for the Allies. Put together in little over a week and lacking in flexibility, the operation became an all-or-nothing race against time. The plan to link the airborne divisions by pushing an armoured division up a sixty-five-mile corridor was optimistic at best, and the British drop zones were not only too far from Arnhem Bridge, but also directly above two recuperating SS Panzer divisions. This new book explores the operation from the perspective of the Germans as renowned historian Anthony Tucker-Jones examines how they were able to mobilise so swiftly and effectively in spite of depleted troops and limited intelligence.
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Download or read book The Encyclopædia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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