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Author : Hermann Hinterstoisser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783902526038
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Austrian Mountain Troops written by Hermann Hinterstoisser and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book German Mountain Troops written by United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Service and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Shelton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743253531
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Climb to Conquer written by Peter Shelton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few stories from the "greatest generation" are as unforgettable -- or as little known -- as that of the 10th Mountain Division. Today a versatile light infantry unit deployed around the world, the 10th began in 1941 as a crew of civilian athletes with a passion for mountains and snow. In this vivid history, adventure writer Peter Shelton follows the unique division from its conception on a Vermont ski hill, through its dramatic World War II coming-of-age, to the ultimate revolution it inspired in American outdoor life. In the late-1930s United States, rock climbing and downhill skiing were relatively new sports. But World War II brought a need for men who could handle extreme mountainous conditions -- and the elite 10th Mountain Division was born. Everything about it was unprecedented: It was the sole U.S. Army division trained on snow and rock, the only division ever to grow out of a sport. It had an un-matched number of professional athletes, college scholars, and potential officer candidates, and as the last U.S. division to enter the war in Europe, it suffered the highest number of casualties per combat day. This is the 10th's surprising, suspenseful, and often touching story. Drawing on years of interviews and research, Shelton re-creates the ski troops' lively, extensive, and sometimes experimental training and their journey from boot camp to the Italian Apennines. There, scaling a 1,500-foot "unclimbable" cliff face in the dead of night, they stunned their enemy and began the eventual rout of the German armies from northern Italy. It was a self-selecting elite, a brotherhood in sport and spirit. And those who survived (including the Sierra Club's David Brower, Aspen Skiing Corporation founder Friedl Pfeifer, and Nike cofounder Bill Bowerman, who developed the waffle-sole running shoe) turned their love of mountains into the thriving outdoor industry that has transformed the way Americans see (and play in) the natural world.
Author : Jean-Denis Lepage
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399044826
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Gebirgsjäger written by Jean-Denis Lepage and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gebirgsjäger were officially formed in 1935 following Hitler’s rejection of the Treaty of Versailles, although the required skills had been fostered in preparation through civilian climbing clubs. They were recruited predominantly from the southern mountainous parts of Germany – Wurtemburg and Bavaria – and from Austria, where Alpinism and mountain warfare had a long tradition. Rigorously trained in skiing, climbing and other demanding skills of mountain survival and combat, they formed an elite within the German army, distinguished by the distinctive Eidelweiss cap badge adopted in 1939. Jean-Denis Lepage gives a concise history of the Gebirgsjäger’s employment, which saw them in action on every front, from Lapland in the North to Tunisia in the south, and throught the war, from the invasion of Poland to the final defense of Germany. He then gives a detailed description of their uniforms and insignia, equipment, organization, training and tactics. The book is clearly illustrated throughout with over 170 of the author’s own line drawings.
Author : James Sidney Lucas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780710600639
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Alpine Elite written by James Sidney Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Statiev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108424627
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
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.
Author : Maurice Isserman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 1328871436
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (288 download)
Download or read book The Winter Army written by Maurice Isserman and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The epic story of the U.S. 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."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Yves Béraud
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612009476
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book German Mountain Troops 1942–45 written by Yves Béraud and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author does a terrific job of outlining the many campaigns and areas where the German Mountain troops fought throughout the war, and the unique challenges that some of these areas brought." — AMPS When World War II began, the Wehrmacht had fifteen mountain divisions and a multitude of small units, including some Austrian units that had been incorporated into the German army after the Anschluss. These mountain units would operate in hostile environments on all fronts during World War II. Due to their training, equipment and adaptability, the Gebirgstruppen would be deployed to fight in almost every theater. In the last years of the war they would see action in North Africa, Italy, the Balkans, Norway and Finland, and in the West as the Allies pushed German forces back toward Berlin. This book, the culmination of four decades of research and the support of many veterans and collectors, describes the uniform, equipment, and operations of these specialist units during the later years of World War II. The text is complemented by period photographs taken at the front, including many color photographs, and modern photographs of uniform details.
Author : Hal Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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.
Author : Graydon A. Tunstall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521199344
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War written by Graydon A. Tunstall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive new history of the Austro-Hungarian Royal and Imperial Army during the First World War.
Author : Graydon A. Tunstall
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700618589
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Blood on the Snow written by Graydon A. Tunstall and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Carpathian campaign of 1915, described by some as the "Stalingrad of the First World War," engaged the million-man armies of Austria-Hungary and Russia in fierce winter combat that drove them to the brink of annihilation. Habsburg forces fought to rescue 130,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers trapped by Russian troops in Fortress Przemysl, but the campaign was waged under such adverse circumstances that it produced six times as many casualties as the number besieged. It remains one of the least understood and most devastating chapters of the war-a horrific episode only glimpsed previously but now vividly restored to the annals of history by Graydon Tunstall. The campaign, consisting of three separate and ultimately doomed offensives, was the first example of "total war" conducted in a mountainous terrain, and it prepared the way for the great battle of Gorlice-Tarnow. Habsburg troops under Conrad von Htzendorf faced those of General Nikolai Ivanov, which together totaled more than two million soldiers. None of the participants were psychologically or materially prepared to engage in prolonged winter mountain warfare, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers suffered from frostbite or succumbed to the "White Death." Tunstall reconstructs the brutal environment-heavy snow, ice, dense fog, frigid winds-to depict fighting in which a man lasted on average between five to six weeks before he was killed, wounded, captured, or committed suicide. Meanwhile, soldiers warmed rifles over fires to make them operable and slaughtered thousands of horses just to ward off starvation. This riveting depiction of the Carpathian Winter War is the first book-length account of that vicious campaign, as well as the first English-language account of Eastern Front military operations in World War I in more than thirty years. Based on exhaustive research in Vienna's and Budapest's War Archives, Tunstall's gripping narrative incorporates material drawn from eyewitness accounts, personal diaries, army logbooks, and correspondence among members of the high command. As Tunstall shows, the roots of the Habsburg collapse in Russia in 1916 lay squarely in the winter campaign of 1915. Packed with insights from previously unexploited primary sources, his book provides an engrossing read-and the definitive account of the Carpathian Winter War.
Author : JEAN-DENIS. LEPAGE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781399044783
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Gebirgsj Ger written by JEAN-DENIS. LEPAGE and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert H. Meinke
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 155369600X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)
Download or read book Mountain Troops and Medics written by Albert H. Meinke and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountain Troops And Medics is a complete World War II Combat History of the U.S. Tenth Mountain Division written by Albert H. Meinke, Jr., M.D., who served as one of its front line infantry battalion surgeons during all of the division's combat in 1944-45. It unfolds as a series of interesting, true personal stories, presented in chronological order, which makes the history easy to read and to digest. The Tenth Mountain Division was a very special Army division made up of carefully selected skiers, mountaineers, and experienced outdoorsmen. Known as the "SKI TROOPS," these men trained long and hard to fight on skis and snowshoes, and to survive in below zero temperatures in mountainous terrain so hostile to military maneuvering that it was necessary to use pack mules to transport supplies, ammunition and equipment. During the winter of 1944-45 this division entered the military stalemate in the Apennine Mountains in Northern Italy, and on its first offensive cracked the German defenses to take Riva Ridge and the key mountain peaks, Monte Belvedere, Monte Gorgolesco and Monte della Torraccia. It was the first Allied division to break into the Po Valley, and first to reach and cross the wide Po River, using hastily obtained, hand-paddled assault boats. It then continued its rapid advance, as the vanguard of the Allied Armies in Italy, until it reached the Austrian border. The author not only served with the first of this division's combat troops to leave the continental United States and participated in all of the Division's major battles, but also served in every one of its special task forces deep behind enemy lines. Most of the time he was well informed about local military strategies and Division objectives. Drama, excitement, tragedy and humor are included in these stories of preparations for combat, unusual fighting conditions, care of wounded soldiers at the front, and wartime conditions in Italy. Written in non-technical language, the book is easy to read, and fulfills the requirements for an outstanding and unusual gift, especially to all World War II participants, history and military buffs, mountaineers, ski enthusiasts, and almost everyone connected with the field of medicine.
Author : Ray Merriam
Publisher : Merriam Press
ISBN 13 : 1576381633
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (763 download)
Download or read book Gebirgsjaeger written by Ray Merriam and published by Merriam Press. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Haythornthwaite
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782007024
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Austrian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (1) written by Philip Haythornthwaite and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most implacable of Napoleon's continental enemies, at the outbreak of war Austria maintained a vast army, but one rooted firmly in the 18th century. Hampered by the inherent conservatism of the hierarchy, the Austrians had to fight the most modern army in Europe. Despite this the regulars, who were drawn from many territories under Austrian sway, performed with great discipline, resolution and stoicism. This title examines in detail the organisation, uniforms, deployment and development of the Austrian infantry during the Napoleonic Wars, covering Line infantry, Light infantry, Grenz-Infanterie, Landwehr militia, and Frei-Corps units.
Author : M. C. Ortner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783902526137
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Austro-Hungarian Artillery from 1867 to 1918 written by M. C. Ortner and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Haythornthwaite
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781855324183
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (241 download)
Download or read book The Austrian Army 1740–80 (2) written by Philip Haythornthwaite and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1994-11-14 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the accession of Maria Theresa in 1740, the Austro-Hungarian army included 52 infantry regiments, of which three were Hungarian, three Netherlandish and one Italian. The remainder drew their recruits not only from the Habsburg territories, including Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia (the last being lost to Prussia in 1742), but from the autonomous states of the Holy Roman Empire and beyond. The proportion of Hungarian raised regiments was set to rise in the coming years though - indeed 'foreign' personnel comprised an important part of the military etablishment. This title, the second in a sequence of three, details the organisation, uniform and equipment of the cosmopolitan Austrian Army from 1740-80, focusing on infantry troops.
