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Author : John Frayn Turner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Destination Berchtesgaden written by John Frayn Turner and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D Brown
Publisher : Pyramid
ISBN 13 : 0753722143
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (537 download)
Download or read book 501 Must-Visit Destinations written by D Brown and published by Pyramid. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference guide to those must-see places all over the globe. The book covers 501 must-visit destinations, ranging from remote hideaways and tropical islands to bustling cities, breathtaking monuments and stunning landscapes across the world. Stunning photography sits alongside informative text and a summary of don't-miss features of each site.
Author : George G. Kundahl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786732009
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Riviera at War written by George G. Kundahl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan. Few areas of the world experienced domination by more than a single one of these, but southeastern France - the region popularly known as the Riviera or Cote d'Azur - was one. Not only did inhabitants suffer through Italian Fascism and German Nazism but also under a third hardship at times even more oppressive - the rule of Vichy France. Following a nine-month prelude, the reality of World War II burst onto the Riviera in June 1940 when the region had to defend itself against the Italian army and ended in April 1945 with a battle against German and Italian forces in April 1945, a period longer than any other part of France. In this book, George G. Kundahl tells for the first time the full story of World War II on the French Riviera. Featuring previously unseen sources and photographs, this will be essential reading for anyone interested in wartime France.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Quarterly Review of Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Military Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Stuart Nance
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813169623
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Sabers through the Reich written by William Stuart Nance and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sabers through the Reich, William Stuart Nance provides the first comprehensive operational history of American corps cavalry in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) during World War II. The corps cavalry had a substantive and direct impact on Allied success in almost every campaign, and served as offensive guards for armies across Europe, conducting reconnaissance, economy of force, and security missions, as well as prisoner of war rescues. From D-Day and Operation Cobra to the Battle of the Bulge and the drive to the Rhine, these groups had the mobility, flexibility, and firepower to move quickly across the battlefield, enabling them to aid communications and intelligence gathering, reducing the Clausewitzian "friction of war."
Author : James Scott Wheeler
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813166047
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Jacob L. Devers written by James Scott Wheeler and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Jacob L. "Jake" Devers (1897--1979) was one of only two officers -- the other was Omar C. Bradley -- to command an army group during the decisive campaigns of 1944--1945 that liberated Europe and ended the war with Nazi Germany. After the war, Devers led the Army Ground Forces in the United States and eventually retired in 1949 after forty years of service. Despite incredible successes on the battlefield, General George C. Marshall's "dependable man" remains one of the most underrated and overlooked figures of his generation. In this definitive biography, James Scott Wheeler delivers a groundbreaking reassessment of the American commander whose contributions to victory in Europe are topped only by General Dwight D. Eisenhower's. Wheeler's exhaustively researched chronicle of Devers's life and career reveals a leader who demonstrated an extraordinary ability to cut through red tape and solve complex problems. Nevertheless, Eisenhower disliked Devers -- a fact laid bare when he ordered Devers's Sixth Army Group to halt at the Rhine. After the war, Eisenhower's and Bradley's accounts of the generals' disagreements over strategy and tactics became received wisdom, to the detriment of Devers's reputation. An essential contribution to twentieth-century history, Jacob L. Devers provides a fresh and nuanced interpretation of the senior command during World War II and offers a new perspective on a highly accomplished soldier.
Author : Peter Caddick-Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190601884
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Fire and Steel written by Peter Caddick-Adams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume in one of the most acclaimed works of military history of this generation. Here is Peter Caddick-Adams' third volume in his trilogy about the final year of the Western front in World War Two. Fire & Steel covers the war's final 100 days-beginning in late January 1945 and continuing until May 8th, 1945, when the German high command surrendered unconditionally to all Allied forces. Caddick-Adams' previous two volumes in the acclaimed series-Sand & Steel, which covers the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, and Snow & Steel, the definitive study of the Battle of the Bulge, the German's final offensive in the war-have set the stage for this concluding volume. In these final months of World War Two, all of Germany is ablaze, from daily bombing runs launched from just across its borders and incessant artillery fire from the east. In the west, the Allied progress was inexorable, with Eisenhower's seven armies taking on Germany's seven armies, town by town, bridge by bridge. With his customary narrative verve and utter mastery of the material, Caddick-Adams does these climactic final months full justice, from the capture of the Ludendorff Railway Bridge at Remagen, to the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, to the taking of Munich on Hitler's birthday, April 20th, and through to VE Day. Fire & Steel ends with the return of prisoners, demobilization of servicemen, and the beginning of the occupation of Germany. A triumphant concluding volume to one of the most distinguished works of military history of this generation.
Author : Michael Ivory
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426200281
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)
Download or read book National Geographic Traveler: Germany written by Michael Ivory and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents region-by-region information for travelers to Germany, including details on its history, landscape, historic sites, hotels and restaurants, and more, and provides color photographs, maps, and cutaway illustrations.
Author : Stephen M Rusiecki
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612510019
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book In Final Defense of the Reich written by Stephen M Rusiecki and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1945, the American 71st Infantry Division exacted the final vestiges of life from the Reich’s 6th SS Mountain Division in central Germany. This analysis of the battle demonstrates that the Wehrmacht’s last gasp on the Western Front was anything but a whimper as some historians charge. Instead, Stephen Rusiecki argues, the Nazis fought to exact every last bit of pain possible. The book follows the histories of both the German and American divisions from their inceptions until their fateful confrontation and serves as a testament to the human experience in war, from the perspective of the soldiers and the civilians who suffered the brunt of the fighting.
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Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Infantry written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Frayn Turner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780967284
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Destination Berchtesgaden written by John Frayn Turner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The actions of General Patch's Seventh Army are analysed and assessed in this detailed history of their advance across Europe in 1943-45. Of the US Armies fighting in Europe at the end of World War II, General Patch's Seventh Army has received the least attention from historians. Although over-shadowed by the performance of General Patton and the actions of his US Third Army (breaking out of the Normandy bridgehead, liberating Paris and seizing Remagen bridge), the Seventh Army made a considerable contribution to the Allied victory, particularly their rapid advance through southern Germany and Austria. The Seventh Army landed in Sicily in 1943, and then took part in Operation Anvil in 1944 before advancing across the Rhine and reaching Berchtesgaden itself. Both the successes and setbacks of the Seventh Army are discussed in this volume, as well as discussing the tactical victories and defeats that contributed to the Allied campaign.
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Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Armies, Corps, Divisions, and Separate Brigades written by and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1987 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Frayn Turner
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473818060
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Service Most Silent written by John Frayn Turner and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the very outset of war Nazi Germany demonstrated its determination and ability to lay siege to the British Isles by the laying of mines in shipping lanes. Losses to both merchant ships and naval vessels became a serious factor. If supplies continued to be lost by a combination of U-Boat and mine attacks the very survival of the nation was at risk. Finding counter-measures to the German mine offensive was thus a top priority. The responsibility for this vital work rested with a small group of highly skilled and courageous naval specialists based at HMS Vernon, the RN's mine and torpedo shore-base at Portsmouth. Ranged against them was a growing and ingenious array of weapons: magnetic, acoustic, oyster, booby-trap mines to name but four varieties. Some were laid by boat, others dropped from the air. The story of HMS Vernon's contribution led by men such as Commander JGD Ouvry DSO and Captain R L Lewis DSO and many other courageous figures has been written by John Frayn Turner, the distinguished historian who served with them.He adopts a fast moving style to describe the near continuous struggle to detect, understand and master the best efforts of the German war machine. He brings home the constant deadly danger faced by these highly skilled and dedicated men.
Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472847415
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Hitler’s Winter written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What a brilliant book this is... a terrific narrative of Hitler's Ardennes offensive of December 1944 – superb storytelling that achieves a skilful balance between drama and detail.' - James Holland The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive in the West. Launched in the depths of winter to neutralize the overwhelming Allied air superiority, three German armies attacked through the Ardennes, the weakest part of the American lines, with the aim of splitting the Allied armies and seizing the vital port of Antwerp within a week. It was a tall order, as the Panzers had to get across the Our, Amblève, Ourthe and Meuse rivers, and the desperate battle became a race against time and the elements, which the Germans would eventually lose. But Hitler's dramatic counterattack did succeed in catching the Allies off guard in what became the largest and bloodiest battle fought by US forces during the war. In this book, Anthony Tucker-Jones tells the story of the battle from the German point of view, from the experiences of the infantrymen and panzer crewmen fighting on the ground in the Ardennes to the operational decisions of senior commanders such as SS-Oberstgruppenführer Josef 'Sepp' Dietrich and General Hasso von Manteuffel that did so much to decide the fate of the offensive. Drawing on new research, Hitler's Winter provides a fresh perspective on one of the most famous battles of World War II.
Author : Keith Bonn
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307417751
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book When the Odds Were Even written by Keith Bonn and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three months of savage fighting, the U.S. Seventh Army did what no army in the history of modern warfare had ever done before–conquer an enemy defending the Vosges Mountains. With the toughest terrain on the Western Front, the Vosges mountain range was seemingly an impregnable fortress, manned by German troops determined to hold the last barrier between the Allies and the Rhine. Yet despite nearly constant rain, snow, ice, and mud, soldiers of the U.S. Seventh Army tore through thousands of pillboxes, acres of barbed wire, hundreds of roadblocks, and miles of other enemy obstacles, ripping the tenacious German defenders out of their fortifications in fierce fighting–and then held on to their gains by crushing Operation Nordwind, the German offensive launched in a hail of steel at an hour before midnight on the last New Year’s Eve of the war. Keith Bonn’s fascinating study of this little-known World War II campaign offers a rare opportunity to compare German and American fighting formations in a situation where both sides were fairly evenly matched in numbers of troops, weapons, supplies, and support. This gripping battle-by-battle account shatters the myth that German formations were, division for division, superior to their American counterparts.
Author : Roy Barnard
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Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Era of World War II written by Roy Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
