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Author : Michael Schoeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Springbok Fighter Victory: East Africa, 1940-1941 written by Michael Schoeman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Stewart
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300222203
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The First Victory written by Andrew Stewart and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Exciting . . . a comprehensive account of an overlooked campaign in which an outnumbered imperial army destroyed Mussolini’s dream of a new Roman Empire.” —Ashley Jackson, author of Churchill Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, this is the story of the British and Commonwealth forces who, against all odds, completed a stunning and important victory in East Africa against an overwhelmingly superior Italian opponent in 1941. A hastily formed British-led force, never larger than 70,000 strong, advanced along two fronts to defeat nearly 300,000 Italian and colonial troops. This compelling book draws on an array of previously unseen documents to provide both a detailed campaign history and a fresh appreciation of the first significant Allied success of the war. Andrew Stewart investigates such topics as Britain’s African wartime strategy; how the fighting forces were assembled (most from British colonies, none from the U.S.); General Archibald Wavell’s command abilities and his difficult relationship with Winston Churchill; the resolute Italian defense at Keren, one of the most bitterly fought battles of the entire war; the legacy of the campaign in East Africa; and much more. “The First Victory is that rarity of military history: groundbreaking research combined with first-rate narrative skills.” —Open Letters Includes maps and photographs
Author : Peter C. Smith
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473874254
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Combat Biplanes of World War II written by Peter C. Smith and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The era of the combat biplane is usually thought to have been between 1914 and 1938. By the outbreak of World War II, most of the advanced air forces of the world had moved on to monoplane aircraft for their front-line battle forces, both in bomber and fighter capacities. Yet despite this, many biplanes did still survive, both in front-line service and in numerous subsidiary roles, and not just as training machines but as fully operational warplanes. Thus in 1939 the majority of major European powers still retained some, albeit few, biplane aircraft. Sadly, and as an indictment of failed British Government defence policies, it was Great Britain who still had the bulk of such obsolescent combat aircraft, machines like the Gladiator, Swordfish, Walrus, Vildebeeste and Audax for example, while the inferior Albacore, meant to replace the Swordfish, was still yet to enter service!Germany had relegated most of her biplane designs to secondary roles, but they still managed to conduct missions in which biplanes like the He.50, He.51 and Hs.120 excelled. Both France and Italy had biplanes in active service, Mussolini's Regia Aeronautica attaching great importance to the type as a fighter aircraft as late as 1941, while the Soviet Union also retained some machines like the Po-2 in front-line service right through the war and beyond. In addition, a whole range of smaller nations utilised biplanes built for larger combatants in their own air forces. By the time Japan and the United States entered the war two years later, they had mainly rid themselves of biplanes but, even here, a few specialised types lingered on. This book describes a selection of these gallant old warriors of all nations. They represent the author's own personal selection from a surprisingly large range of aircraft that, despite all predictions, fought hard and well in World War II.
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Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Kaapse bibliotekaris written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-
Author : David Brock Katz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 081176608X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book South Africans versus Rommel written by David Brock Katz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After bitter debate, South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire at the time, declared war on Germany five days after the invasion of Poland in September 1939. Thrust by the British into the campaign against Erwin Rommel’s German Afrika Korps in North Africa, the South Africans fought a see-saw war of defeats followed by successes, culminating in the Battle of El Alamein, where South African soldiers made a significant contribution to halting the Desert Fox’s advance into Egypt. This is the story of an army committed somewhat reluctantly to a war it didn’t fully support, ill-prepared for the battles it was tasked with fighting, and sent into action on the orders of its senior alliance partner. At its heart, however, this is the story of men at war.
Author : Jacques Bezuidenhout
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1928480098
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)
Download or read book African Military Geosciences written by Jacques Bezuidenhout and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eight-chapter volume, African Military Geosciences: Military History and the Physical Environment, is a tour-de-force covering nearly 500 years of African military geosciences. It is a truly global book that reveals keen insights into regional, national and international military-forces activities centered in Africa and how the understanding of geosciences plays important roles. It is written for the specialist, but also attractive to the general military buff - well referenced and illustrated with figures from primary sources, historical catalogues and compendia. The publication explores the "e;age of sail"e;, harbour defenses, the trafficability of desert environments and marshes, as well as climate controls on sailing or land battles. There is even insight into an elite artillery unit staffed by women during Second World War - essentially covering the whole gamut. Ultimately, the reader explores a nearly 500-year journey around the African continent and beyond.
Author : James Ambrose Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The War of a Hundred Days written by James Ambrose Brown and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carel Birkby
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Springbok Victory written by Carel Birkby and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Nasson
Publisher : Penguin Global
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Springboks on the Somme written by Bill Nasson and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War of 1914-18 was a conflict which engulfed the whole world, directly or indirectly. An imperialist world war tugged the new Union of South Africa and its people into a series of separate but connected conflicts - from the domestic Afrikaner Rebellion on the highveld, through the sands of German South West Africa, the steamy bush of German East Africa, and on to the mud and blood of France and Flanders. This book is the first general study of the complex ways in which South Africans experienced the impact of the First World War, and responded to its demands, burdens and opportunities.Told with his customary narrative energy and style, Bill Nasson's new history is a lively account not only of how South Africa fought the war, but also of the miscalculations and illusions that surrounded its involvement, and of how South African society came to imagine and remember that great and terrible conflict.
Author : Royal Commonwealth Society. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Subject Catalogue of the Royal Commonwealth Society, London: Biography. Voyages and travels. World War I. World War II written by Royal Commonwealth Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angus Buchanan
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Three Years of War in East Africa written by Angus Buchanan and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1969 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Mace
Publisher : Despatches from the Front
ISBN 13 : 9781783462230
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (622 download)
Download or read book The War in East Africa 1939-1943 written by Martin Mace and published by Despatches from the Front. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despatches in this volume include dispatch on operations in the Somaliland Protectorate 1939-1940, by General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East; dispatch on operations in East Africa November 1940 to July 1941, by General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East; dispatch on operations in East Africa July 1941 to January 1943, by Lieutenant-General Sir William Platt, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, East Africa Command; and the Capture of Diego Suarez during Operation Ironclad by Rear-Admiral Syfret. This unique collection of original documents will prove to be an invaluable resource for historians, students and all those interested in what was one of the most significant periods in British military history.
Author : Andrew Stewart
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300208553
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The First Victory written by Andrew Stewart and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the first major Allied victory of the Second World War Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Commonwealth forces completed a stunning and important victory in East Africa against an overwhelmingly superior Italian opponent. A hastily formed British-led force, never larger than 70,000 strong, advanced along two fronts to defeat nearly 300,000 Italian and colonial troops. This compelling book draws on an array of previously unseen documents to provide both a detailed campaign history and a fresh appreciation of the first significant Allied success of the war. Andrew Stewart investigates such topics as Britain's African wartime strategy; how the fighting forces were assembled (most from British colonies, none from the U.S.); General Archibald Wavell's command abilities and his difficult relationship with Winston Churchill; the resolute Italian defense at Keren, one of the most bitterly fought battles of the entire war; the legacy of the campaign in East Africa; and much more.
Author : Neil D. Orpen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book East African and Abyssinian Campaigns written by Neil D. Orpen and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Perkins
Publisher : Newton Abbot, Devon : R. Perkins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Regiments written by Roger Perkins and published by Newton Abbot, Devon : R. Perkins. This book was released on 1994 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended as a work of reference, this critical bibliography is a description of the historical records published by, or in the name of, all the military, para-military and police forces which served the British Empire and Commonwealth. It is based upon information received from 200 contributors and from contacts with 78 military libraries worldwide. It gives a listing of all such books, for all of the dominions, colonies, protectorates and mandated territories, from the time of Robert Clive's India through to 1993.
Author : Judy Anne Sinclair Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jan Christian Smuts written by Judy Anne Sinclair Scott and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reuben Musiker
Publisher : Scarecrow Area Bibliographies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Southern Africa Bibliography written by Reuben Musiker and published by Scarecrow Area Bibliographies. This book was released on 1996 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 27, 1994, a new era in the history of Southern Africa began when South Africa became a democratic country governed by Black majority rule. In the aftermath of these momentous changes, Scarecrow Press introduces the Southern Africa Bibliography. It is a select bibliography that lists the significant books and monographs on Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe published since 1945. Coverage of a broad range of subjects including: art, culture, economy, history, politics, religion, society, and important persons, places, events and movements. The work is arranged by subject and contains detailed author, title and subject indexes.
