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Author : I.S.O. Playfair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780116309464
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Mediterranean and Middle East written by I.S.O. Playfair and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Stanley Ord Playfair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mediterranean and Middle East: Victory in the Mediterranean. pt. 1. 1st April to 4th June 1944 written by Ian Stanley Ord Playfair and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Søgeord: Gazala; Kasserine; Malta; Monte Cassino
Author : Jan S. Playfair
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Mediterranean and Middle East written by Jan S. Playfair and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Stanley Ord Playfair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845740702
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Mediterranean and Middle East: pt. 1. Victory in the Mediterranean 1st April to 4th June 1944 written by Ian Stanley Ord Playfair and published by . This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth in the eight volumes describing the Mediterranean a Middle Eastern theatres in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War narrates the campaign in Italy from March to June 1944. After the Allies bogged down at Anzio and Monte Cassino, General Alexander determined on a Spring offensive - Operation Diadem - to take Monte Cassino, break the German defences of the Gustav Line, and capture Rome. The Line was successfully breached by the British Eighth and the US Fifth Armies within days of the offensive s opening and the subsidiary Hitler Line was also broken. As a follow-up, American, Canadian and French forces broke out of the Anzio bridgehead where they had been bottled up since January. After heavy fighting, the Caesar Line, the last defence before the Italian capital, was broken and the Allies occupied Rome on 4th June. Elsewhere in the Mediterranean theatre, British special forces missions supported Marshal Tito s partisans in attacking the German occupying forces in Yugoslavia. There are chapters on Allied strategic disagreements; the war at sea, and the allied administration of Italy. The text has two appendices, and 20 maps and diagrams.
Author : Robert S. Ehlers, Jr.
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700620753
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Mediterranean Air War written by Robert S. Ehlers, Jr. and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without what the Allies learned in the Mediterranean air war in 1942–1944, the Normandy landings—and so, perhaps, the Second World War II—would have ended differently. This is one of many lessons of The Mediterranean Air War, the first one-volume history of the vital role of airpower during the three-year struggle for control of the Mediterranean Basin in World War II—and of its significance for the Allied successes in the war's last two years. Airpower historian Robert S. Ehlers opens his account with an assessment of the pre-war Mediterranean theater, highlighting the ways in which the players' strategic choices, strengths, and shortcomings set the stage for and ultimately shaped the air campaigns over the Middle Sea. Beginning with the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, Ehlers reprises the developing international crisis—initially between Britain and Italy, and finally encompassing France, Germany, the US, other members of the British Commonwealth, and the Balkan countries. He then explores the Mediterranean air war in detail, with close attention to turning points, joint and combined operations, and the campaign's contribution to the larger Allied effort. In particular, his analysis shows how and why the success of Allied airpower in the Mediterranean laid the groundwork for combined-arms victories in the Middle East, the Indian Ocean area, North Africa, and the Atlantic, northwest Europe. Of grand-strategic importance from the days of Ancient Rome to the Great-Power rivalries of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Middle Sea was no less crucial to the Allied forces and their foes. Here, in the successful offensives in North Africa in 1942 and 1943, the US and the British learned to conduct a coalition air and combined-arms war. Here, in Sicily and Italy in 1943 and 1944, the Allies mastered the logistics of providing air support for huge naval landings and opened a vital second aerial front against the Third Reich, bombing critical oil and transportation targets with great effectiveness. The first full examination of the Mediterranean theater in these critical roles—as a strategic and tactical testing ground for the Allies and as a vital theater of operations in its own right—The Mediterranean Air War fills in a long-missing but vital dimension of the history of World War II.
Author : David W. Hogan
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160497711
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (977 download)
Download or read book A Command Post at War written by David W. Hogan and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2000 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the first Army headquarters in the European theater, from its activation in October 1943 to V-E Day in May 1945. Shows the Army headquarters of World War 2 as a complicated organization with functions ranging from the immediate supervision of tactical operations to long-range operational planning and the sustained support of frontline units. CMH Pub 70-60.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004255702
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945 offers a collection of scholarly papers focusing on heretofore understudied aspects of the Second World War. Encompassing the major campaigns of North Africa, Sicily and Italy from operation TORCH to the end of the war in Europe, this volume explores the intriguing dichotomy of the nature of battle in the Mediterranean theatre, whilst helping to emphasise its significance to the study of Second Word War military history. The chapters, written by a number of international scholars, offer a discussion of a range of subjects, including: logistics, the air-land battle, coalition operations, doctrine and training, command, control and communications, and airborne and special forces. Contributors are Matthew C. Ford, Simon Godfrey, John Greenacre, Andrew L. Hargreaves, James Hudson, Alan Jeffreys, Kevin Jones, Paul Lemaire, Ross Mahoney, Christopher Mann, Cesar Campiani Maximiano, Patrick J. Rose, and Grant T. Weller.
Author : Milan N. Vego
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135777160
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Naval Strategy and Operations in Narrow Seas written by Milan N. Vego and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books and articles have been written on wars in narrow seas. However, none deals in any comprehensive manner with the problems of strategy and conduct of naval operations. The aim of this book is to explain in some detail the characteristics of a war fought in narrow seas and to compare and contrast strategy and major operations in narrow seas and naval warfare in the open ocean..
Author : I. Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230359280
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Allies and Italians under Occupation written by I. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using original documents, the Allied Occupation of southern Italy, particularly Sicily and Naples, is illustrated by examining crime and unrest by Allied soldiers, deserters, rogue troops and Italian civilians from drunkenness, theft, rape, and murder to riots, demonstrations, black marketeering and prostitution.
Author : Mark Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476638381
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Disputed Decisions of World War II written by Mark Thompson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory draws on those disciplines in this review of controversial strategic and tactical decisions of World War II. Allied leaders--although outstanding in many ways--sometimes botched what now is termed meta-decision making or deciding how to decide. Operation Jubilee, a single-division raid on Dieppe, France, in August 1942, for example, illustrated the pitfalls of groupthink. In the Allied invasion of North Africa three months later, American and British leaders fell victim to the planning fallacy: having unrealistically rosy expectations of an easy victory. In Sicily in the summer of 1943, they violated the millennia-old principle of command unity--now re-endorsed and elaborated on by modern theorists. Had Allied strategists understood the game theory of bluffing, in January 1944 they might well not have landed two-plus divisions at Anzio in Italy.
Author : Richard Doherty
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473813875
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Eighth Army in Italy, 1943-45 written by Richard Doherty and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighth Army, Britain's most famous field army of the twentieth century, landed in Italy in September 1943 and fought continously until the defeat of the Germans in early-May 1945. This book studies the experience of Eighth Army in the Italian campaign, examining how a force accustomed to the open spaces of North Africa adjusted to the difficult terrain of Italy where fighting became much more a matter for the infantry than for the armour. It also compares the qualities of the commanders of Eighth Army in Italy: Montgomery; Leese and, finally, McCreery. The book uses official records at various levels, personal accounts - some never before published - and published material to present a picture of an army that, although defined as British, was one of the war's most cosmopolitan formations. Its soldiers came from the UK, Canada, India, Ireland, Nepal, New Zealand, Poland and South Africa as well as from Palestine - the Jewish Brigade - and from Italy itself.
Author : David French
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191608262
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Raising Churchill's Army written by David French and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-07-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first serious analysis of the combat capability of the British army in the Second World War. It sweeps away the myth that the army suffered from poor morale, and that it only won its battles thorugh the use of 'brute force' and by reverting to the techniques of the First World War. David French analyses the place of the army in British strategy in the interwar period and during the Second World War. He shows that after 1918 the General Staff tried hard to learn the lessons of the First World War, enthusiastically embracing technology as the best way of minimizing future casualties. In the first half of the Second World War the army did suffer from manifold weaknesses, not just in the form of shortages of equipment, but also in the way in which it applied its doctrine. Few soldiers were actively eager to close with the enemy, but the morale of the army never collapsed and its combat capability steadily improved from 1942 onwards. Professor French assesses Montgomery's contributions to the war effort and concludes that most important were his willingness to impose a uniform understanding of doctrine on his subordinates, and to use mechanized firepower in ways quite different from Haig in the First World War.
Author : William Jackson, 3rd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845740719
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Mediterranean and Middle East written by William Jackson, 3rd and published by . This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The penultimate volume in the eight books of the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War on the war in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres, this work describes the Italian campaign from June to October 1944. This gruelling summer campaign, Operation Dragoon, cleared central Italy of German forces, pushing their Army Group C back on the Gothic Line, which ran across the Italian peninsula from Lucca on the western coast to Pesaro on the Adriatic. But after the Line was breached, the Allied advance bogged down again, despite strenuous attempts in the early autumn to break into the strategically vital Po valley. In the face of continued German resistance, and worsening allied morale, General Alexander in October decided on a second winter in Italy, limiting his objectives to capturing Ravenna and Bologna. He was constrained by the demands of simultaneous campaigns in Normandy and southern France. Meanwhile, as the Germans, hard-pressed on other fronts, began to withdraw from the Greek islands, British forces moved in to fill the vacuum. With three appendices, and 29 maps and diagrams.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Middle East, Abstracts and Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian S. O. Playfair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780116309365
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Mediterranean and the Middle East. Vol.VI. written by Ian S. O. Playfair and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robin Neillands
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781585676897
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (768 download)
Download or read book Eighth Army written by Robin Neillands and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterful epic of military history thrillingly chronicles the defeats and triumphs of the Eighth Army, considered by many to be the most remarkable fighting force of WW II, renowned for holding the Axis at bay from North Africa to the Alps from1939 to 1945. Photos. Maps.
Author : Gerald Jordan
Publisher : New York : Garland Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book British Military History written by Gerald Jordan and published by New York : Garland Pub.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
