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Operation Compass 1940

Author : Jon Latimer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472805402
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Operation Compass 1940 written by Jon Latimer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first battle of the desert war, Operation Compass was originally envisaged as a spoiling attack, combined with a reconnaissance in force to disrupt the Italian forces that had advanced into Egypt in September 1940. Lt Gen. Richard O'Connor launched what amounted to a British 'Blitzkrieg'. In less than two months the British forces swept 500 miles along the coast of North Africa. 7th Armoured Division raced across the desert to cut off the retreating Italians, and O'Connor's men destroyed 9 Italian divisions, and took 130,000 prisoners. In March 1941 General Rommel and the Afrikakorps landed at Tripoli.

Operation Compass 1940

Author : Jon Latimer
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operation Compass 1940 written by Jon Latimer and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first battle of the desert war, Operation Compass was originally envisaged as a spoiling attack, combined with a reconnaissance in force to disrupt the Italian forces that had advanced into Egypt in September 1940. Lt Gen. Richard O'Connor launched what amounted to a British "blitzkrieg." Instead the British forces swept 500 miles along the coast of North Africa. 7th Armored Division raced across the desert to cut off the retreating Italians, and O'Connor's men destroyed 9 Italian divisions, and took 130,000 prisoners--forcing the Germans to intervene with the Afrikakorps, led by the legendary General Rommel. This is an operation that tends to be overlooked in favor of later campaigns involving Rommel and the Deutsches Afrikakorps. It was a humiliating defeat for the Italians, but success for the Allies was to turn sour when their success led directly to German intervention led by General Rommel and the Afrikakorps. The campaign as a whole highlighted the strengths of the British modern, forward- looking military machine as opposed to the Italian military which was rooted in the past. Despite the stereotype of lacking courage, Operation Compass showed that the Italians on an individual basis were not cowards and they consistently proved their strength of fighting spirit.

Operation Compass

Author : Victor Gregg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448216796
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Operation Compass written by Victor Gregg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation Compass was the first large Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) during the Second World War. The Western Desert Force, composed of around 30,000 men from British and other Commonwealth forces, advanced from Mersa Matruh on a five-day raid against the Italian positions of the 10th Army. Operation Compass continued long beyond its original limitations in order to exploit British success. Victor Gregg takes us behind the scenes of this unforgiving terrain, to the sangars rather than the trenches, in an astonishing first-hand account of warfare. Through tender friendships and tea runs, devastating news from home and visible enemies on the horizon, Gregg goes beyond the graphic descriptions of injuries and front-line action to show the psychological impact of daily life both on and off the battlefield.

Operation Compass 1940

Author : Jon Latimer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846035287
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Operation Compass 1940 written by Jon Latimer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first battle of the desert war, Operation Compass was originally envisaged as a spoiling attack, combined with a reconnaissance in force to disrupt the Italian forces that had advanced into Egypt in September 1940. Lt Gen. Richard O'Connor launched what amounted to a British 'Blitzkrieg'. In less than two months the British forces swept 500 miles along the coast of North Africa. 7th Armoured Division raced across the desert to cut off the retreating Italians, and O'Connor's men destroyed 9 Italian divisions, and took 130,000 prisoners. In March 1941 General Rommel and the Afrikakorps landed at Tripoli.

Operation Compass

Author : Jon Latimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Operation Compass written by Jon Latimer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass, 1606

Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass, 1606 written by Galileo Galilei and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1978 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Desert Prelude 2

Author : Hakan Gustavsson
Publisher : Mushroom Model Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788361421184
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Desert Prelude 2 written by Hakan Gustavsson and published by Mushroom Model Publications. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of two volumes providing an in-depth look at the air war over the North African desert in the early days of World War II. The equipment, organization and operations of the Regia Aeronautica, RAF and French Air Force are described in detail. Possibly the last major combat in which both sides flew fighter bi-planes, it saw the Italian air arm take on the rather sparsely-equipped Allied forces in Egypt and Libya. This volume completes the story, up to the point in 1941 when German forces arrived to bolster the retreating Italian forces.

Aircraft Magnetic Compass Type J-2

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Aircraft Magnetic Compass Type J-2 written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Operator's, Manual

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Operator's, Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Operation Paperclip

Author : Annie Jacobsen
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316221058
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Operation Paperclip written by Annie Jacobsen and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States. Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg; one was convicted of mass murder and slavery. They were also directly responsible for major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the U.S. space program. Was Operation Paperclip a moral outrage, or did it help America win the Cold War? Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including previously unseen papers made available by direct descendants of the Third Reich's ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and dossiers discovered in government archives and at Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into a startling, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secret of the twentieth century. In this definitive, controversial look at one of America's most strategic, and disturbing, government programs, Jacobsen shows just how dark government can get in the name of national security.

Blood and Ruins

Author : Richard Overy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143132938
Total Pages : 1041 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Ruins written by Richard Overy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Monumental… [A] vast and detailed study that is surely the finest single-volume history of World War II. Richard Overy has given us a powerful reminder of the horror of war and the threat posed by dictators with dreams of empire.” – The Wall Street Journal A thought-provoking and original reassessment of World War II, from Britain’s leading military historian A New York Times bestseller Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. As one of Britain’s most decorated and respected World War II historians, he argues that this was the “last imperial war,” with almost a century-long lead-up of global imperial expansion, which reached its peak in the territorial ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest and costliest war in human history and the end, after 1945, of all territorial empires. Overy also argues for a more global perspective on the war, one that looks broader than the typical focus on military conflict between the Allied and Axis states. Above all, Overy explains the bitter cost for those involved in fighting, and the exceptional level of crime and atrocity that marked the war and its protracted aftermath—which extended far beyond 1945. Blood and Ruins is a masterpiece, a new and definitive look at the ultimate struggle over the future of the global order, which will compel us to view the war in novel and unfamiliar ways. Thought-provoking, original and challenging, Blood and Ruins sets out to understand the war anew.

Winston's War

Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307593126
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Winston's War written by Max Hastings and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hastings, Winston’s War captures the full range of Churchill’s endlessly fascinating character. At once brilliant and infuriating, self-important and courageous, Hastings’s Churchill comes brashly to life as never before. Beginning in 1940, when popular demand elevated Churchill to the role of prime minister, and concluding with the end of the war, Hastings shows us Churchill at his most intrepid and essential, when, by sheer force of will, he kept Britain from collapsing in the face of what looked like certain defeat. Later, we see his significance ebb as the United States enters the war and the Soviets turn the tide on the Eastern Front. But Churchill, Hastings reminds us, knew as well as anyone that the war would be dominated by others, and he managed his relationships with the other Allied leaders strategically, so as to maintain Britain’s influence and limit Stalin’s gains. At the same time, Churchill faced political peril at home, a situation for which he himself was largely to blame. Hastings shows how Churchill nearly squandered the miraculous escape of the British troops at Dunkirk and failed to address fundamental flaws in the British Army. His tactical inaptitude and departmental meddling won him few friends in the military, and by 1942, many were calling for him to cede operational control. Nevertheless, Churchill managed to exude a public confidence that brought the nation through the bitter war. Hastings rejects the traditional Churchill hagiography while still managing to capture what he calls Churchill’s “appetite for the fray.” Certain to be a classic, Winston’s War is a riveting profile of one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century.

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Author : Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Papers on Radiation, Chemistry: 1901-1912

Author : Smithsonian Institution
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Papers on Radiation, Chemistry: 1901-1912 written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bolt Action: Duel in the Sun

Author : Warlord Games
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472813715
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Bolt Action: Duel in the Sun written by Warlord Games and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Duel in the Sun, players can take command of the doughty Desert Rats of Montgomery's 8th Army, the fast-moving and hard-hitting raiders of the Long Range Desert Army (LRDG), or Rommel's mighty Afrika Korps, to recreate some of the most iconic battles of World War II – Operations Compass, Crusader and Torch, Tobruk, and Alamein, amongst others. Offering scenarios, special rules and new troop types, this Theatre Book for Bolt Action also takes players across the Mediterranean from North Africa, where they can follow the Italian Campaign from the invasion of Sicily, through the battles for Anzio and Cassino, to the final assaults on the Gothic Line.

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Author : Smithsonian Institution
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Atlas of World War II

Author : John Pimlott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 151075671X
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Atlas of World War II written by John Pimlott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlas of World War II traces the course of the conflict chronologically by showing each major campaign as a full-color map, further illustrated by archive action pictures. Skillfully bringing to life the human experience of war with eyewitness accounts of the struggle, this book presents the political and strategic conditions that led to the war, offering a unique insight into military operations and tactics. World War II remains a topic of fascination and study, and this book is an ideal addition to the shelves of all interested readers.