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Book Synopsis War in the Aegean by : Peter C. Smith
Download or read book War in the Aegean written by Peter C. Smith and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First complete retelling of an important but little-known campaign. Eyewitness accounts from a colorful cast of German SS troops, British commandos, partisans, spies, Greek pirates, and more.
Download or read book Improvise and Dare written by J. S. Guard and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Aegean Sea after the Cold War by : A. Chircop
Download or read book The Aegean Sea after the Cold War written by A. Chircop and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-06-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains contributions of scholars from Canada, Greece, Israel, Italy, and the United States. Section 1 consists of studies on historical and security issues, with contributions on the historical background of Greco-Turkish relations, British perspectives on these relations after World War II, the role of NATO, Greece's defence strategy and the balance of power between Greece and Turkey. Section 2 addresses law-of-the-sea and governance issues, and includes studies on Greece and the law of the sea, maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean, the Imia Rocks crisis, human security and governance, fisheries management, water resources management, joint development zones, and dispute settlement in the law of the sea.
Book Synopsis Churchill's Folly by : Anthony Rogers
Download or read book Churchill's Folly written by Anthony Rogers and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today many of the Greek islands of the Dodecanese are popular tourist resorts. However in 1943 they were the scene of the last successful German invasion of the Second World War. The islands had been occupied by the Italians since 1912 but, Italian Armistice of September with the downfall of Benito Mussolini, Winston Churchill seized the opportunity to open a new front in the eastern Mediterranean. Rejected by the Americans, it was a proposal fraught with difficulties and, ultimately, one that was doomed to failure. British garrison troops occupied territory with the assistance of naval forces, but with little or no air cover. They were opposed by some of Germany's finest, including units of the esteemed Division Brandenburg, with ample air and sea support. Three months of operations ended in a British defeat and with the Aegean under German occupation until the end of the war. The author has drawn on British, German and Italian sources and uses graphic eyewitness accounts to provide a detailed retelling of the struggle for possession of the Dodecanese, and the battles for Kos and Leros in particular.
Book Synopsis Crossing the Aegean by : Renée Hirschon
Download or read book Crossing the Aegean written by Renée Hirschon and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the defeat of the Greek Army in 1922 by nationalist Turkish forces, the 1923 Lausanne Convention specified the first internationally ratified compulsory population exchange. It proved to be a watershed in the eastern Mediterranean, having far-reaching ramifications both for the new Turkish Republic, and for Greece which hadto absorb over a million refugees. Known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe by the Greeks, it marked the establishment of the independent nation state for the Turks. The consequences of this event have received surprisingly little attention despite the considerable relevance for the contemporary situation in the Balkans. This volume addresses the challenge of writing history from both sides of the Aegean and provides, for the first time, a forum for multidisciplinary dialogue across national boundaries.
Book Synopsis The North Aegean Wars, 371-360 B.C by : Julia Heskel
Download or read book The North Aegean Wars, 371-360 B.C written by Julia Heskel and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis of this book is Heskel's belief that Philip II's policies regarding Athens cannot be properly understood without a thorough investigation of the preceding events of the 360s, and what Heskel describes as the `hitbed of diplomatic and military activity' that was the North Aegean in that period. By making the region, rather than the actions of any one power the central focus of the study, Heskel aims to fill in the gaps left by previous writers on the subject.
Book Synopsis Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century BC by : John Buckler
Download or read book Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century BC written by John Buckler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the political, diplomatic, and military history of the Aegean Greeks of the fourth century BC. It includes their power struggles, the Persian involvement in their affairs, and the ultimate Macedonian triumph over Greece.
Book Synopsis The Cretan War, 1645-1671 by : Bruno Mugnai
Download or read book The Cretan War, 1645-1671 written by Bruno Mugnai and published by Century of the Soldier. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The army and the navy of Venice and Ottoman Empire during the campaigns fought for the possession of the 'pearl of the Mediterranean'. The legendary Venetian resistance impressed the courts of whole Europe, transforming the conflict in the 'Campo di Marte' of the continent.
Book Synopsis Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army by : Donald W. Engels
Download or read book Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army written by Donald W. Engels and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most important work on Alexander the Great to appear in a long time. Neither scholarship nor semi-fictional biography will ever be the same again. . . .Engels at last uses all the archaeological work done in Asia in the past generation and makes it accessible. . . . Careful analyses of terrain, climate, and supply requirements are throughout combined in a masterly fashion to help account for Alexander's strategic decision in the light of the options open to him...The chief merit of this splendid book is perhaps the way in which it brings an ancient army to life, as it really was and moved: the hours it took for simple operations of washing and cooking and feeding animals; the train of noncombatants moving with the army. . . . this is a book that will set the reader thinking. There are not many books on Alexander the Great that do."—New York Review of Books
Book Synopsis War in the Islands by : Adrian Seligman
Download or read book War in the Islands written by Adrian Seligman and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True accounts of naval undercover operation during the Second World War.
Book Synopsis Kos and Leros 1943 by : Anthony Rogers
Download or read book Kos and Leros 1943 written by Anthony Rogers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is an illustrated account of the autumn 1943 battle for the Dodecanese, as Winston Churchill attempted to secure the Aegean islands in the wake of the Italian armistice. The occupation was a gamble intended to increase pressure against Germany and at the same time possibly provide encouragement for Turkey to join the Allies. Spearheaded by the Special Boat Squadron and the Long Range Desert Group, garrison troops were deployed to the Italian-occupied Dodecanese, but they were too late to prevent the Germans from taking control of the key island of Rhodes and its all-important airfields. An all-out German offensive followed. Air force and naval units supported a series of assaults by infantry and paratroopers, including specialist forces of the Division Brandenburg. Within three months, only Castelorizzo was still in British hands. Rhodes, Kos and Leros remained under German occupation until May 1945 and the end of the war in Europe. The Dodecanese would be Adolf Hitler's last enduring victory – and the last enduring British-led defeat.
Book Synopsis The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean by : Brendan O'Carroll
Download or read book The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean written by Brendan O'Carroll and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the British Army unit’s deployment to and defense of a group of islands between Greece and Turkey during World War II. Shortly after the invasion of Sicily, in order to distract German attention from the Italian campaign, Churchill ordered the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean. The Long Range Desert Group, retraining in Lebanon, were now part of Raiding Forces, Middle East, along with the Special Boat Service and No 30 Commando. In support of 3,000 regulars in 234 Brigade, the LRDG landed covertly on Leros establishing observation posts, reporting movement of enemy shipping and aircraft. In October the LRDG were ordered to assault the island of Levitha, losing forty highly skilled men killed or captured. The Germans invaded Leros with overwhelming force on 12 November 1943, five days later the battle was over. While many British troops were captured most of the LRDG and SBS escaped. Their individual stories make for enthralling reading. A measure of the intensity of the fighting is the fact that the LRDG lost more men in three months in the Aegean than in three years in the desert operating behind enemy lines. The author, an acknowledged expert on the LRDG uses official sources, both British and German, and individual accounts to piece together the full story of this dramatic, costly but little-known campaign. It is a valuable addition to the history of special forces in the Second World War. Praise for The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean “O’Carroll provides an interesting and informative read about a little known action by a World War II era special operations unit and an important part of SOF history.” —SOF News
Book Synopsis The Greek-Turkish Conflict in the Aegean by : A. Heraclides
Download or read book The Greek-Turkish Conflict in the Aegean written by A. Heraclides and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Greek-Turkish Aegean dispute book shows that the dispute is resolvable and that the crux of the problem is not the incompatibility of interests but the mutual fears and suspicions, which are deeply rooted in historical memories, real or imagined.
Book Synopsis Athenian Democracy at War by : David M. Pritchard
Download or read book Athenian Democracy at War written by David M. Pritchard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies all four branches of the Athenian armed forces to show how they helped make democratic Athens a superpower.
Book Synopsis The Battle of the Wine Dark Sea by : Lew Lind
Download or read book The Battle of the Wine Dark Sea written by Lew Lind and published by Simon & Schuster (Australia). This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of the war fought in the Greek Islands of the Eastern Mediterranean during WWII to secure the Aegean Sea. Also records the operations of units such as the Greek Sacred Squadron, the Royal Marine commandos and the Levant Schooner Flotilla in combination with the navy and army forces of a number of countries including Australia. Includes personal accounts of escapes from occupied areas. The author was involved in the early days of the resistance, and is the foundation president of the Naval Historical Society of Australia. He is the editor of 'Australian Shipyards', and his other publications include 'Escape from Crete' which was produced as a film in 1986, and 'Australia's Men of War'.
Book Synopsis Hitler's Island War by : Julie Peakman
Download or read book Hitler's Island War written by Julie Peakman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Highly Commended by the British Records Association for the 2019 Janette Harley Prize* In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried, in vain, to retain control of the island. Over the course of two short months - from 15 September 1943 to 17 November 1943 - almost 1500 men lost their lives and hundreds more ended up in Prisoner-of-War camps. In this book, Julie Peakman, a modern-day resident of Leros, brings to life the story of the men caught up in the battle based on first-hand interviews and written accounts including diaries, letters and journals. She tells of the preparations of the soldiers leading up to the battle, the desperate hand-to-hand fighting, and the suffering endured from continual bombings. She also shows the extent of the men's despair at the allied surrender, the many subsequent daring escapes as well as the terrible years of incarceration for those who were captured and imprisoned. Many of the heart-rending accounts of the battle are told here for the first time, providing a unique eyewitness take on this forgotten corner of World War II.
Book Synopsis The German Campaigns in the Balkans (spring, 1941). by :
Download or read book The German Campaigns in the Balkans (spring, 1941). written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
