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Author :Gerhard Schepe Publisher :Kingston [Ont.] : Centre for International Relations, Queen's University ISBN 13 : Total Pages :118 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Mountain Warfare in Europe by : Gerhard Schepe
Download or read book Mountain Warfare in Europe written by Gerhard Schepe and published by Kingston [Ont.] : Centre for International Relations, Queen's University. This book was released on 1983 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mountain warfare in the European Alps by : Erhard Semadeni
Download or read book Mountain warfare in the European Alps written by Erhard Semadeni and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Strategy and Tactics in Mountain Ranges by : Thomas Miller Maguire
Download or read book Strategy and Tactics in Mountain Ranges written by Thomas Miller Maguire and published by London, W. Clowes and sons, limited. This book was released on 1904 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis At War's Summit by : Alexander Statiev
Download or read book At War's Summit written by Alexander Statiev and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreates the harsh mountain warfare during the Wehrmacht's and Red Army's clash on the highest battlefield of World War Two.
Book Synopsis The War is in the Mountains by : Judith Matloff
Download or read book The War is in the Mountains written by Judith Matloff and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population yet host a strikingly disproportionate share of the world's conflicts. Mountains provide a natural refuge for those who want to elude authority, and their remoteness has allowed archaic practices to persist well into our globalized era. As Judith Matloff shows, the result is a combustible mix we in the lowlands cannot afford to ignore. Traveling to conflict zones across the world, she introduces us to Albanian teenagers involved in ancient blood feuds; Mexican peasants hunting down violent poppy growers; and Jihadists who have resisted the Russian military for decades. At every stop, Matloff reminds us that the drugs, terrorism, and instability cascading down the mountainside affect us all. A work of political travel writing in the vein of Ryszard Kapuscinski and Robert Kaplan, The War is in the Mountains is an indelible portrait of the conflicts that have unexpectedly shaped our world.
Book Synopsis The Winter Army by : Maurice Isserman
Download or read book The Winter Army written by Maurice Isserman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION'S ULLR AWARD, the epic story of the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy’s mountains in 1945, spearheading the Allied advance to the Alps and final victory. At the start of World War II, the US Army had two cavalry divisions—and no mountain troops. The German Wehrmacht, in contrast, had many well-trained and battle-hardened mountain divisions, some of whom by 1943 blocked the Allied advance in the Italian campaign. Starting from scratch, the US Army developed a unique military fighting force, the 10th Mountain Division, drawn from the ranks of civilian skiers, mountaineers, and others with outdoor experience. The resulting mix of Ivy League students, park rangers, Olympic skiers, and European refugees formed the first specialized alpine fighting force in US history. By the time it deployed to Italy at the beginning of 1945, this ragtag group had coalesced into a tight-knit unit. In the months that followed, at a terrible cost, they spearheaded the Allied drive in Italy to final victory. Ranging from the ski slopes of Colorado to the towering cliffs of the Italian Alps, The Winter Army is a saga of an unlikely band of soldiers forged in the heat of combat into a brotherhood whose legacy lives on in US mountain fighters to this day.
Book Synopsis Battles in the Alps by : G. Irving Root
Download or read book Battles in the Alps written by G. Irving Root and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far removed from the bloody battles of attrition in the rain and mud of northern France, there raged another desperate struggle between two of Europeas strongest yet most underrated powers, the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Austria-Hungary. Here, along a twisting, curving 475-mile-long battle line, fierce fighting was conducted among the lofty peaks and rugged countryside of the continentas most notorious mountain range, replete with all the difficulties of weather and the awesome challenges of movement and supply. Contingents of troops from all of the major warring powers eventually became involved in this war of extremes. Before it was over, two and one-half million casualties had been suffered and the map of Europe had been changed forever. Battles in the Alps chronicles this important theatre of the Great War, and explains in text and in maps the consequences of Italyas entry into hostilities and the changes resultant from its aftermath. Related incidents in the skies over the Front and on the waves of the adjacent Adriatic Sea are also narrated.
Book Synopsis Storming the Eagle's Nest by : Jim Ring
Download or read book Storming the Eagle's Nest written by Jim Ring and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Fall of France in June 1940 to Hitler's suicide in April 1945, the swastika flew from the peaks of the High Savoy in the western Alps to the passes above Ljubljana in the east. The Alps as much as Berlin were the heart of the Third Reich.'Yes,' Hitler declared of his headquarters in the Bavarian Alps, 'I have a close link to this mountain. Much was done there, came about and ended there; those were the best times of my life . . . My great plans were forged there.'With great authority and verve, Jim Ring tells the story of how the war was conceived and directed from the Fuhrer's mountain retreat, how all the Alps bar Switzerland fell to Fascism, and how Switzerland herself became the Nazi's banker and Europe's spy centre. How the Alps in France, Italy and Yugoslavia became cradles of resistance, how the range proved both a sanctuary and a death-trap for Europe's Jews - and how the whole war culminated in the Allies' descent on what was rumoured to be Hitler's Alpine Redoubt, a Bavarian mountain fortress.
Download or read book Mountain Warfare written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Mountain Warfare Mountain warfare or alpine warfare is warfare in mountains or similarly rough terrain. The term encompasses military operations affected by the terrain, hazards, and factors of combat and movement through rough terrain, as well as the strategies and tactics used by military forces in these situations and environments. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Mountain warfare Chapter 2: Indian Army Chapter 3: 10th Mountain Division (United States) Chapter 4: Nuristan Province Chapter 5: Ski warfare Chapter 6: Northern Light Infantry Regiment Chapter 7: Jungle warfare Chapter 8: Cold-weather warfare Chapter 9: Counterinsurgency Chapter 10: Kunar Province (II) Answering the public top questions about mountain warfare. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Mountain Warfare.
Download or read book Vercors 1944 written by Peter Lieb and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated account of the conflict between the German Army and security forces and the French resistance in the Alps. Fighting insurgents has always been one of the greatest challenges for regular armed forces during the 20th century. The war between the Germans and the French resistance, also called FFI (Forces Françaises d'Intérieur), during World War II has remained a near-forgotten chapter in the history of these 'Small Wars'. This is all the more astonishing as agencies like the British SOE (Special Operations Executive) and the American OSS (Office of Strategic Services) pumped a good amount of their resources into the support of the French resistance movement. By diversionary attacks on German forces in the occupied hinterland the Allies hoped the FFI could provide assistance in disrupting German supply lines as well as crumbling their morale. The mountain plateau of the Vercors south-west of Grenoble was the main stronghold of the FFI, and in July 1944 some 8,000 German soldiers mounted an operation on the plateau and destroyed the insurgent groups there. This compact volume examines the battle of the Vercors, the largest operation against the FFI during World War II, and shows how the Germans' suit and crushing victory has caused traumatic memories for the French that persist to the present day.
Download or read book The Ski Troops written by Hal Burton and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Tenth Mountain Division of the U.S. Army from its conception by an amateur sportsman to its 114 days of fighting--on skis--during the Po Valley breakthrough in Italy during World War II. The author tells much of the history of the use and development of skis.
Book Synopsis The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond by : Stephen O'Shea
Download or read book The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond written by Stephen O'Shea and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An entertaining, turbocharged race among the high mountain passes of six alpine countries.” —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review For centuries the Alps have been witness to the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers, and the dreams of engineers. In The Alps, Stephen O’Shea ("a graceful and passionate writer"—Washington Post) takes readers up and down these majestic mountains. Journeying through their 500-mile arc across France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, and Slovenia, he explores the reality behind historic events and reveals how the Alps have profoundly influenced culture and society.
Download or read book Modern Warfare written by Roger Trinquier and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1964 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The White War written by Mark Thompson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled. With elegance and pathos, historian Mark Thompson relates the saga of the Italian front, the nationalist frenzy and political intrigues that preceded the conflict, and the towering personalities of the statesmen, generals, and writers drawn into the heart of the chaos. A work of epic scale, The White War does full justice to the brutal and heart-wrenching war that inspired Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
Book Synopsis Quarterly Review of Military Literature by :
Download or read book Quarterly Review of Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Mountaineering in the Alps by : Claire Eliane Engel
Download or read book A History of Mountaineering in the Alps written by Claire Eliane Engel and published by Nash Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AUTHORS NOTE: WRITING a history of mountaineering when so many books have already been devoted to one or father aspect of the subject is a problem, the solution of which has not always been easy to find. I have attempted, moreover, to write it direct into English, which is not my mother tongue, and that has added to my problems. I have tried to give a wide interpretation of the subject, investi gating many aspects which had been often neglected this involved much complicated research and I had to ask many questions, some of which were probably thought quite irrelevant by those I approached. I had to limit my research to the Alps. A world history of mountaineering was not to be thought of, and even moun taineering in Europe was too big a subject to be dealt with in a coherent way. As a matter of fact, all the other mountain ranges the Pyrenees, Caucasus, Carpathians, Scandinavian were developed by climbers after the Alps, in order to carry and test elsewhere the technique discovered in the mountains of Switzer land and Savoy. FOREWORD by F. S. SMYTHE: THIS is a remarkable book for two reasons. It is the first really comprehensive work to be published in this country on the history of mountaineering, from the earliest travellers in the Alps down to the present-day climbing technique, which expresses itself on mountain sides believed impossible. The other remarkable fact is that it has been written by Mile Engel, a Frenchwoman, in English, and is not even a translation of any of her numerous works in the French language. It might indeed have been written by a scholarly Englishman who not only possessed an excellent vocabulary but a wealth of synonym and metaphor combined with a rhythmical flow of prose. Having had the privilege of being acquainted with Mile Engel for many years, I know how much work and research she has put into her book, and from the letters and archives of past mountaineers, scientists and travellers in the Alps she has dis covered matter of great value to all interested in the history of mountaineering and Alpine adventure. She is herself a moun taineer with a wide circle of mountaineering friends and acquain tances...
Book Synopsis Between the Alps and a Hard Place by : Angelo M. Codevilla
Download or read book Between the Alps and a Hard Place written by Angelo M. Codevilla and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Switzerland's "neutrality" is fully examined and challenged in this groundbreaking study of the economics underpinning the political in that country's successful non-alignment policies.
