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Book Synopsis Messerschmitts Over Sicily by : Johannes Steinhoff
Download or read book Messerschmitts Over Sicily written by Johannes Steinhoff and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's personal World War II diary An unflinching look at Luftwaffe combat, tactics, and leadership during the campaign for Sicily A concluding chapter assesses the war's lessons for air forces In an account of unusual power, Luftwaffe ace Johannes Steinhoff recounts the final days of the German air force on Sicily in June and July 1943. Facing crushing odds--including a commander, Hermann Göring, who contemptuously treated his pilots as cowards--Steinhoff and his fellow Messerschmitt 109 pilots took to the skies day after day to meet waves of dreaded Flying Fortresses and swarms of Allied fighters, all bent on driving the Germans from the island. A captivating narrative and a piercing analysis, this book is a classic of aerial combat.
Book Synopsis Messerschmitts Over Sicily by : Johannes Steinhoff
Download or read book Messerschmitts Over Sicily written by Johannes Steinhoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an account of unusual power, Luftwaffe ace Johannes Steinhoff recounts the final days of the German air force on Sicily in June and July 1943. Facing crushing odds—including a commander, Hermann Göring, who contemptuously treated his pilots as cowards—Steinhoff and his fellow Messerschmitt 109 pilots took to the skies day after day to meet waves of dreaded Flying Fortresses and swarms of Allied fighters, all bent on driving the Germans from the island. A captivating narrative and a piercing analysis based on the author’s personal World War diary, this book is a classic of aerial combat. A concluding chapter assesses the war's lessons for air forces.
Book Synopsis Messerschmitts Over Sicily by : Johannes Steinhoff
Download or read book Messerschmitts Over Sicily written by Johannes Steinhoff and published by Messerschmitts Over Sicily. This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's personal World War II diary, Messerschmitts Over Sicily is an unflinching look at Luftwaffe combat, tactics and leadership during the campaign for Sicily. A concluding chapter assesses the war's lessons for air forces.
Download or read book Sicily '43 written by James Holland and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of World War II’s Operation Husky, the first Allied attack on European soil, by the acclaimed author of Normandy ’44. On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion eleven months later: 160,000 American, British, and Canadian troops came ashore or were parachuted onto Sicily, signaling the start of the campaign to defeat Nazi Germany on European soil. Operation Husky, as it was known, was enormously complex, involving dramatic battles on land, in the air, and at sea. Yet, despite its paramount importance to ultimate Allied victory, and its drama, very little has been written about the thirty-eight-day Battle for Sicily. Based on his own battlefield studies in Sicily and on much new research, James Holland’s Sicily ’43 offers a vital new perspective on a major turning point in World War II and a chronicle of a multi-pronged campaign in a uniquely diverse and contained geographical location. The characters involved—Generals George Patton and Bernard Montgomery among many—were as colorful as the air and naval battles and the fighting on the ground across the scorching plains and mountaintop of Sicily were brutal. But among Holland’s great skills is incorporating the experience of on-the-ground participants on all sides—from American privates Tom and Dee Bowles and Tuskegee fighter pilot Charlie Dryden to British major Hedley Verity and Canadian lieutenant Farley Mowat (later a celebrated author), to German and Italian participants such as Wilhelm Schmalz, brigade commander in the Hermann Göring Division, or Luftwaffe fighter pilot major Johannes “Macky” Steinhoff and to Italian combatants, civilians and mafiosi alike—which gives readers an intimate sense of what occurred in July and August 1943. Emphasizing the significance of Allied air superiority, Holland overturns conventional narratives that have criticized the Sicily campaign for the vacillations over the plan, the slowness of the Allied advance and that so many German and Italian soldiers escaped to the mainland; rather, he shows that clearing the island in 38 days against geographical challenges and fierce resistance was an impressive achievement. A powerful and dramatic account by a master military historian, Sicily ’43 fills a major gap in the narrative history of World War II. Praise for Sicily ’43 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Named a Best History Book of the Year by the Wall Street Journal “Academic histories are all very well, but at times it is a pleasure to sit back and wallow in an old-school military tale of flinty-eyed men doing battle. That is what James Holland, a seasoned craftsman, offers in Sicily ’43.” —New York Times Book Review “Crisp, detailed, and entertaining. Holland refuses to let the legends overshadow the flesh-and-blood soldiers who fought, bled, and died. Sicily ‘43 is an outstanding look at a stepping-stone to victory.” —Wall Street Journal
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Download or read book Review of Current Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Professional Journal of the United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Jagged Edge of Duty by : Robert L. Richardson
Download or read book The Jagged Edge of Duty written by Robert L. Richardson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World War II fighter-pilot story On the very first day of the invasion of Sicily, three months into his combat career, Allan Knepper flew his P-38 Lightning fighter in a squadron sent out to sweep the island and interdict German ground targets. Retreating German infantry unexpectedly pounded the American flyers. Knepper was one of two shot down; he was never found. Knepper’s story is the story-in-microcosm of thousands of American fighter pilots in World War II. Richardson recounts Knepper’s experiences from training through combat and uses them to discuss the aircraft, tactics and doctrine, training, base life, and aerial combat of the war. This is the intimate account of one pilot at war, but also the anatomy of the fighter-pilot experience in World War II.
Book Synopsis Messerschmitts Over Sicily by : Johannes Steinhoff
Download or read book Messerschmitts Over Sicily written by Johannes Steinhoff and published by Pen & Sword Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steinhoff recounts gripping episodes from his Luftwaffe wartime career. Focusing on this ace pilot's defence of Sicily before and after the Allied landings, we read of the technology and intrigue within the German military machine; how Goering had fallen out of favour with Hitler and was condemning his leading pilots as cowards and then how many senior air officers plotted to depose the brutish Luftwaffe leader. This is an action-packed insight into the beginning of the demise of the once-mighty German Air Force that ruled the air in the early years of World War II. Author Details Johannes Steinhoff became a senior commander and was given an elite Luftwaffe unit whose purpose was to train pilots to fly the first German jet fighter, the Messerschmitt 262. His account provides an unflinching account of wartime life in the Luftwaffe.
Download or read book The Savage Sky written by George Webster and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life expectancy of an American B-17 crew in Europe during World War II was eleven missions, yet crews has to fly twenty-five -and eventually thirty-before they could return home. Against these long odds the bomber crews of the U.S. 8th Air Force, based in England, joined the armada of Allied aircraft that pummeled Germany day after day. Radioman George Webster recounts the terrors they confronted: physical and mental exhaustion, bitter cold at high altitudes, lethal shrapnel from flak, and German fighters darting among bombers like feeding sharks. George Wester was a B-17 radio operator in the 92nd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. On his twenty-fifth mission in May 1944, his bomber was forced to make an emergency landing in Sweden, where he and his crewmates were interned for the war's duration.
Download or read book A Higher Call written by Adam Makos and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: “Beautifully told.”—CNN • “A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating.”—USA Today • “Oh, it’s a good one!”—Fox News A “beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies” emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Devotion, now a Major Motion Picture. December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber’s tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler—and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger... What happened next would defy imagination and later be called “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.” The U.S. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between them as “top secret.” It was an act that Franz could never mention for fear of facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search the world for each other, a last mission that could change their lives forever.
Download or read book Dogfight written by David Owen and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innumerable books have been published on the two most famous fighter aircraft of all time, the Supermarine Spitfire and the Messerschmitt Bf109. But books setting out to tell the story of both aircraft are very much rarer - probably fewer than the fingers of one hand. Yet their joint story is one which bears retelling since both were essential to the air campaigns of World War Two. Incredibly, the men who designed them lacked any experience of designing a modern fighter. R J Mitchell had begun his career working on industrial steam locomotives, Willy Messerschmitt had cut his aeronautical teeth on light and fragile gliders and sporting planes. Yet both men not only managed to devise aircraft which could hold their own in a world where other designs went from state-of-the-art to obsolete in a staggeringly short time, but their fighters remained competitive over six years of front-line combat. Despite the different ways their creators approached their daunting tasks and the obstacles each faced in acceptance by the services for which they were designed, they proved to be so closely matched that neither side gained a decisive advantage in a titanic struggle. Had either of them not matched up to its opponent so well, then the air war would have been a one-sided catastrophe ending in a quick defeat for the Allies or the Axis powers, and the course of twentieth century history would have been changed beyond recognition.
Download or read book Backwater War written by Edwin P. Hoyt and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Allies waged an assault in Sicily and Italy marked by dissent from beginning to end. Includes the controversial bombing of Monte Cassino.
Book Synopsis The Nazi Rocketeers by : Dennis Piszkiewicz
Download or read book The Nazi Rocketeers written by Dennis Piszkiewicz and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the development of the V-2 rocket. A sobering testimony to the consequences of corrupted genius.
Book Synopsis Michael Wittmann and the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in World War II by : Patrick Agte
Download or read book Michael Wittmann and the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in World War II written by Patrick Agte and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of what it was like to command a tank in combat Contains maps, official documents, newspaper clippings, and orders of battle Volume Two follows Michael Wittmann and his unit into Normandy to defend against the Allied invasion. A week after D-Day, Wittmann achieved his greatest success. On June 13, 1944, near Villers Bocage, the panzer ace and his crew attacked a British armored unit, single-handedly destroying more than a dozen tanks and preventing an enemy breakthrough. The exploit made Wittmann a national hero in Germany and a legend in the annals of war. He was killed two months later while attempting to repulse an Allied assault, but the book continues beyond his death until the Leibstandarte's surrender.
Book Synopsis German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II by : Samuel W. Mitcham
Download or read book German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II written by Samuel W. Mitcham and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive reference on the German Army in World War II, covering the organization, combat history, and commanders of each division.
Book Synopsis German Order of Battle by : Samuel W. Mitcham
Download or read book German Order of Battle written by Samuel W. Mitcham and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative histories highlighting organization, combat experiences, and casualties of each division. Lists of constituent units and division commanders. Sources for further reading on each division.
