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Download or read book Grand Strategy: August 1943-September 1944, by J. Ehrman written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John B. Hattendorf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136713166
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Naval Policy and Strategy in the Mediterranean written by John B. Hattendorf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maritime strategy and naval power in the Mediterranean touches on migration, the environment, technology, economic power, international politics and law, as well as calculations of naval strength and diplomatic manoeuvre. These broad and fundamental themes are explored in this volume.
Author : Michael Roper
Publisher : Public Record Office Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781873162453
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (624 download)
Download or read book The Records of the War Office and Related Departments, 1660-1964 written by Michael Roper and published by Public Record Office Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide covers the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the establishment of the Ministry of Defence in 1964. It includes the records of the Board of Ordnance, military intelligence and military aviation.
Author : Tim Bean
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040111963
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Orchestrating Warfighting written by Tim Bean and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orchestrating Warfighting provides a detailed and wide-ranging examination of the employment of corps and divisions from the First World War through to the early twenty-first century. Division and corps formations have been at the forefront of the British Army’s prosecution of war since 1914. They constituted the major command and organisational elements that underpinned the conduct of large-scale warfighting on land. Divisions and corps were of central importance to the conduct of the First and Second World Wars, the maintenance of a conventional deterrence posture during the Cold War, and were also employed in major confrontations since 1945, including the Korean War and two Gulf Wars. The British Army of the early twenty-first century still retains two divisional formations alongside the British-led Allied Rapid Reaction Corps within NATO. Orchestrating Warfighting examines British, Dominion, and imperial corps and divisions, taking part in the total wars of the first half of the twentieth century and smaller scale conflicts since 1945. It throws new light on questions of command, generalship, and the management of battles and campaigns across a diverse range of theatres. Orchestrating Warfighting is of interest to historians of the British Army, operational military history, and modern war.
Author : Paul R. Bartrop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429848471
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The Routledge History of the Second World War written by Paul R. Bartrop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of the Second World War sums up the latest trends in the scholarship of that conflict, covering a range of major themes and issues. The book delivers a thematic analysis of the many ways in which study of the Second World War can take place, considering international, transnational, and global approaches, and serves as a major jumping off point for further research into the specific fields covered by each of the expert authors. It demonstrates the global and total nature of the Second World War, giving due coverage to the conflict in all major theatres and through the lens of the key combatants and neutrals, examines issues of race, gender, ideology, and society during the war, and functions as a textbook to educate students as to the trends that have taken place in how the conflict has been (and can be) interpreted in the modern world. Divided into twelve parts that cover central themes of the conflict, including theatres of war, leadership, societies, occupation, secrecy and legacies, it enables those with no memory of war to approach it with a view to comprehending what it was all about and places the history of this conflict into a context that is international, transnational, and institutional. This is a comprehensive and accessible reference volume for anyone interested in the most up to date scholarship on this major conflict. Chapter 18 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com
Author : William M. Leary
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813187419
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book We Shall Return! written by William M. Leary and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were the forgotten commanders of World War II. While the names of Bradley and Patton became household words for Americans, few could identify Krueger or Eichelberger. They served under General Douglas MacArthur, a military genius with an enormous ego who dominated publicity from the Southwest Pacific during the American advance from Australia, through New Guinea, to the Philippines. While people at home read about the great victories that were won by "MacArthur's navy" and "MacArthur's air force," his subordinates labored in obscurity, fearful lest attention from the press lead to their replacement. Historians too have paid little attention to the men who fought so well in the far reaches of the Pacific, and not a single biography has appeared in the decades since V-J Day. Yet General Blamey played a key role in the early battles of New Guinea. Generals Krueger and Eichelberger led American armies to major victories over the Japanese. General Kenney was one of the foremost air strategists of the war, while few airmen could match General Whitehead's tactical brilliance. Admiral Kinkaid took a crucial part in one of the greatest naval engagements in history. Admiral Barbey was an acknowledged master of amphibious warfare. We Shall Return! addresses a serious shortcoming in the literature of World War II. Revealed for the first time is the full extent of the contributions made by MacArthur's commanders to the defeat of the Japanese. As the authors of these essays so ably demonstrate, many of MacArthur's bold decisions and innovative tactics were urged upon him by his subordinates. Clearly, these men deserve more credit for his successes than they have received.
Author : Michael Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100034164X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Somerville Papers written by Michael Simpson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir James Somerville (1882-1949) was one of the great influences on the 20th-century navy, both as a commander of fleets and a pioneer of radio and radar. The Admiral's extensive correspondence, diaries and reports are deposited in the Churchill Archives Centre at Cambridge. These edited selections reveal much of the background about major naval operations in the Second World War. The loneliness of high command is clearly revealed in these highly personal documents, almost 500 of which are reproduced in the book. In particular they show Somerville's frequent disagreements with Churchill - a feature common to all senior British commanders during the war.
Author : Barbara Hately
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847797261
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book War and welfare written by Barbara Hately and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, some 250,000 British servicemen were taken captive by either the Axis powers or the Japanese. As a result of this, their wives and families became completely dependent on the military and civil authorities. This book examines the experiences of the millions of service dependents created by total war. The book then focuses on the most disadvantaged elements of this group - the wives, children and dependents of men taken prisoner- and the changes brought about by the exigencies of total war. Further chapters reflect on how these families organised to lobby government and the strategies they adopted to circumvent apparent bureaucratic ineptitude and misinformation. This book is essential reading for both academic and general readers interested in the British Home Front during the Second World War.
Author : Christopher Baxter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230246788
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Great Power Struggle in East Asia, 1944-50 written by Christopher Baxter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full account of British policy towards China, Japan and Korea from the final stages of the Second World War to the outbreak of the Korean War, set against the backdrop of the Anglo-American relationship, broader Far Eastern developments, the beginnings of the Cold War, and Britain's relationship with the Commonwealth.
Author : Nông Vn Dân
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857289551
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Churchill, Eden and Indo-China, 1951-1955 written by Nông Vn Dân and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Churchill, Eden and Indo-China, 1951-1955’ offers a systematic approach to pertinent international politics, providing a historiography and assessing the impact of events such as the Cold War and the Second World War within the context of the governments of Churchill and Eden. Revisiting Churchill's wartime helmsmanship in order to shed further light on his post-war administration, Nông Dân provides a greater historical awareness of the broad international context of decolonized Indo-China and South East Asia.
Author : Jeffrey J. Clarke
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Riviera to the Rhine written by Jeffrey J. Clarke and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1993 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMH Pub. 7-10. United States Army in World War 2. 1st printing. Provides a history of combat operations by the Sixth Army Group from its landing in France to its crossing of theRhine River. Covers the period from August 1944 to March 1945. This work is thefinal volume of the United States Army's series of operational histories treating the activities of its combat forces during the Second World War.
Author : Charles Stephenson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Maritime
ISBN 13 : 1526783622
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Eastern Fleet and the Indian Ocean, 1942–1944 written by Charles Stephenson and published by Pen and Sword Maritime. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the British Eastern Fleet, which operated in the Indian Ocean against Japan, has rarely been told. Although it was the largest fleet deployed by the Royal Navy prior to 1945 and played a vital part in the theater it was sent to protect, it has no place in the popular consciousness of the naval history of the Second World War. So Charles Stephenson’s deeply researched and absorbing narrative gives this forgotten fleet the recognition it deserves. British prewar naval planning for the Far East is part of the story, as is the disastrous loss of the battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse in 1941, but the body of the book focuses on the new fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir James Somerville, and its operations against the Japanese navy and aircraft as well as Japanese and German submarines. Later in the war, once the fleet had been reinforced with an American aircraft carrier, it was strong enough to take more aggressive actions against the Japanese, and these are described in vivid detail. Charles Stephenson’s authoritative study should appeal to readers who have a special interest in the war with Japan, in naval history more generally and Royal Navy in particular.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book United States Army in World War II. written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fraser J. Harbutt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199878935
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The Iron Curtain written by Fraser J. Harbutt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-10-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was forty-two years ago that Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he popularized the phrase "Iron Curtain." This speech, according to Fraser Harbutt, set forth the basic Western ideology of the coming East-West struggle. It was also a calculated move within, and a dramatic public definition of, the Truman administration's concurrent turn from accommodation to confrontation with the Soviet Union. It provoked a response from Stalin that goes far to explain the advent of the Cold War a few weeks later. This book is at once a fascinating biography of Winston Churchill as the leading protagonist of an Anglo-American political and military front against the Soviet Union and a penetrating re-examination of diplomatic relations between the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. in the postwar years. Pointing out the Americocentric bias in most histories of this period, Harbutt shows that the Europeans played a more significant part in precipitating the Cold War than most people realize. He stresses that the same pattern of events that earlier led America belatedly into two world wars, namely the initial separation and then the sudden coming together of the European and American political arenas, appeared here as well. From the combination of biographical and structural approaches, a new historical landscape emerges. The United States appears at times to be the rather passive object of competing Soviet and British maneuvers. The turning point came with the crisis of early 1946, which here receives its fullest analysis to date, when the Truman administration in a systematic but carefully veiled and still widely misunderstood reorientation of policy (in which Churchill figured prominently) led the Soviet Union into the political confrontation that brought on the Cold War.
Author : Robert Ross Smith
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782894152
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book United States Army in WWII - Europe - Riviera to the Rhine written by Robert Ross Smith and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 35 maps and 77 illustrations] Riviera to the Rhine examines a significant portion of the Allied drive across northern Europe and focuses on the vital role played in that drive by the U.S. 6th Army Group, commanded by General Jacob L. Devers, and its two major components, the American Seventh Army, under General Alexander M. Patch, and the French First Army, under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. Had these forces not existed, Eisenhower’s two northern army groups, those commanded by Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and General Omar N. Bradley, would have been stretched much thinner, with their offensive and defensive capabilities greatly reduced. In such a case the German offensive of Dec. 1944 might have met with greater success, easily postponing the final Allied drive into Germany with unforeseen military and political consequences. Riviera thus should balance the greater public attention given to the commands of Montgomery and Bradley by concentrating on the accomplishments of those led by Devers, Patch, and de Lattre and, in the process, by highlighting the crucial logistical contributions of the southern French ports to the Allied war effort. Finally Riviera is the study of a combined, Franco-American military effort, one which frequently saw major combat units of each nation commanded by generals of the other on the field of battle. Although outwardly similar, each national component had its own unique style, and a deep appreciation of one another’s strengths and weaknesses was vital to the success of the combined force. National political considerations also played a significant role in the operations of the combined force as did personal conflicts within both chains of command, all of which had to be resolved primarily by the principal commanders in the field.
Author : Daniel K. R. Crosswell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813126495
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Beetle written by Daniel K. R. Crosswell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full biography of Smith, a fascinating American soldier and diplomat who began his career in 1911 as a private in the Indiana National Guard, and retired as a four-star general.
Author : Jeffrey Grey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313052328
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Last Word? written by Jeffrey Grey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official history is a misunderstood genre of historical writing, which attracts much negative comment from (non-official) historians but about which very little detail is actually known. This book examines the development of official history programs in Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand over the course of the twentieth century, looking at the ways in which they developed and the contributions each made to their respective national historiography. The second part of the work develops some themes from the first and takes the official histories of the Second World War as case studies. Drawing on programs in Australia, Britain, and the United States, these essays examine the relationship between the histories, the historians, and their sponsoring institutions. They assess the impact of the histories on historical understanding of the Second World War. They also consider the impact that contemporary events during the Cold War had on the writing of the official history.
