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Author : Wilfred G. Burchett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Wingate's Phantom Army written by Wilfred G. Burchett and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilfred G. Burchett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wingate's Phantom Army written by Wilfred G. Burchett and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Anglim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317324285
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Orde Wingate and the British Army, 1922-1944 written by Simon Anglim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major General Orde Wingate (1903–1944) was the most controversial British military commander of the Second World War, and perhaps of the last hundred years. Anglim's biography fills a significant void in the literature, making extensive use of Wingate's papers to place him firmly in the context of the British army of the time.
Author : Rick Stroud
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408831287
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Phantom Army of Alamein written by Rick Stroud and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940 a group of artists, sculptors, film makers, theatre designers and set painters came together to form the Camouflage Unit. They were so successful that in August 1942 Montgomery ordered them to to hide the preparations for the Battle of Alamein. In six weeks two entire divisions were conjured from the sand, while real units, stores and men vanished into thin air. Then, right in front of the German's eyes they made 600 tanks disappear and reappear fifty miles away disguised as lorries. Rommel had been bamboozled by an army made of nothing but string and straw and bits of wood.
Author : Max Pemberton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Phantom Army, Etc. (Second Impression.). written by Max Pemberton and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Otto Heilbrunn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000371441
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Warfare in the Enemy's Rear written by Otto Heilbrunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1963, is an analysis of modern warfare in the enemy’s rear, written by the leading authority on irregular warfare, and stemming from a close examination of real-life examples. Rear warfare on scale poses many problems, such as the exact field of operations; supply line issues; combat or harassment; and coordination with frontline troops. There is also the issue of protecting one’s own rear troops.
Author : Timothy Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317424883
Total Pages : 1752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: World War II in Asia written by Timothy Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 1752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4 volumes in this set, originally published between 1980 and 1983, bring to light and focus on the conflict between Japan and Australia and Japan and the USA. Timothy Hall’s volumes, richly illustrated with black & white photographs, used highly contentious documents as their sources and give fascinating insights into a period of Australian history which is sometimes less than gloious. John J. Sbrega’s tour de force is not only one of the most extensive annotated bibliographies on the USA and Japan in World War 2 ever published, but it also provides invaluable information on lesser known but no less important aspects of the conflict.
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198228899
Total Pages : 931 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Germany and the Second World War written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume VII of the 'Germany and the Second World War' series looks at Germany and her Japanese ally on the defensive after the tide of war turned in 1943. An exhaustive study of the air war over the Reich and the Luftwaffe's growing impotence is followed by an account of the invasion of occupied France and the Allies' advance to Germany's borders. A final section examines Japan's defeat and capitulation, and the creation of a new order in the Far East.
Author : Trevor Royle
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 184832572X
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Orde Wingate written by Trevor Royle and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston Churchill described Wingate as a man of genius who might well have become a man of destiny. Tragically, he died in an jungle aircraft crash in 1944. Like his famous kinsman Lawrence of Arabia, Wingate was renowned for being an unorthodox soldier, inclined to reject received patterns of military thought. He was a fundamentalist Christian with a biblical certainty in himself and his mission. He is best-remembered as the charismatic and abrasive leader of the Chindits. With the support of Wavell, he was responsible for a strategy of using independent groups deep behind enemy limes, supported only by air drops. Wingate was responsible for leading the charge of 2,000 Ethiopians and the Sudan Defence Force into Italian-occupied Abyssinia. Remarkably, he defeated a 40,000 strong enemy that was supported by aircraft and artillery, which Wingate did not possess. Despite his achievements, Wingate suffered from illness and depression and in Cairo attempted suicide. He was not universally liked: his romantic Zionism contrasted with the traditional British Arabist notions. He did, however, lead from the front and marched, ate and slept with his men. In this authoritative biography, Royle expertly brings to life a ruthless, complex, arrogant but ultimately admirable general. Trevor Royle is an author and broadcaster specialising in the history of war and empire, with more than 30 books to his credit. His latest book is The Road to Bosworth, a study of the War of the Roses. He is a columnist for the Sunday Herald and is an Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh Universitys School of History. He was born in India in 1945.
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Publisher : KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9385714341
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Combat Lore: Indian Air Force 1930-1945 written by and published by KW Publishers Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Air Force is today 82 years old, a battle-scarred, highly professional force. How it reached this level is an epic saga of struggle against bias and racial prejudice for the officers and men from early thirties to the beginning of World War II. The charge was that Indians lacked leadership qualities and could not fly military aircraft and technically maintain them. In just three years, IAF technicians and pilots imbibed the discipline of the Air Force and performed magnificently in the North West Frontier Province. By 1939, when the war broke out, there was just one squadron. In 1941-42, the Japanese onslaught on Burma provided the IAF with an opportunity to show its competence and leadership in battle. As the Allied armies were retreating, along with the RAF, the IAF provided air cover. By 1944-45, there were nine squadrons and till the end of the war there were constantly in action. History records events taking an impersonal view. What our younger generations need to know is people. Without people there are no units and no organization. This narrative is an effort to bring to the reader the fierce joy at fighting for the country, the professional pride of doing one’s duty and finally the personal touch: “I did it.” Through the mouths of youngsters (who are no longer youngsters and some who have passed away) the reader can imagine himself to be there whether in the North-West tribal region, or flying over the thick jungles of Burma. It is the first-person account that provides the flesh and blood to history by describing hopes, fears, and pride in facing death and the enemy at close quarters on the frontier or in Burma. The narrative has interviews with those who took part in operations. This is a story of the Indian Air Force coming of age after being bloodied in war.
Author : Duncan McNab
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752483234
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Mission 101 written by Duncan McNab and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission: one of the Second World War’s most daring operations and the first for Britain’s legendry Special Operations Executive.Leading a small force of Ethiopian freedom fighters on an epic trek across the harsh African bush from the Sudan, the small incursion force entered Italian-occupied Ethiopia and began waging a guerilla war against the 250,000-strong Italian army. One of these men, Ken Burke, was Duncan McNab's uncle.Using a combination of original research and personal anecdotes, McNab tells the little known story of Mission 101, and how a small group of Australians under British command helped to free a nation.
Author : Barry Pilkington
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789016762
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Last Days written by Barry Pilkington and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal account of a boyhood spent in a typical English village in the Cotswolds. The text is generously illustrated with photographs from the period and illustrations by the author. It will be of particular interest to those who have lived in or around this part of England. The Last Days is a personal memoir of the author’s early life in the picturesque Cotswold village of Chedworth during the period 1940 to 1959. Barry Pilkington has a clear recollection of characters and events, describing them in an engaging and lively manner, and including many personal memories and anecdotes of his family and those living in the village at the time. These individual stories add a human interest and make the book very readable, while his expressive description of the countryside shows his affection for the area in which he spent his early years. Like Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie, the book describes life in a Gloucestershire village when traditional country life was emerging into the ‘modern world’. In the early years of this period, agriculture and its supporting services and trades provided the main sources of occupation; horses were still widely used, water was drawn from wells and evenings were lit by oil lamps. The community was close-knit and centred around the church, school and local pub. Life was hard and the cottages lacked many facilities. Most country people, by necessity, shared a self-reliance which was not taught, but learnt over a lifetime, while tackling the daily tasks that needed to be done. The book also traces how local life was affected by such major changes as the arrival of electricity, the spread of car ownership and changes in farming practice in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Author : American University (Washington, D.C.). Special Operations Research Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Unconventional Warfare written by American University (Washington, D.C.). Special Operations Research Office and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Col. Virgil Ney
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787209121
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Notes on Guerrilla War written by Col. Virgil Ney and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on Guerrilla War, by an American Officer, a student of and an operator in the field of Unconventional Warfare, is most opportune and timely. For the first time, in many instances Principles are identified and explained by historical examples. Colonel Ney holds to the belief that AMERICANS have a tradition of successful GUERRILLA WAR operations from the earliest days of the Nation’s history. Rogers, Marion, Boone, Mosby, Morgan, Quantrill, Ferguson, Andrews, Mackenzie, Funston, Pershing, McCoy, Fertig, Volckmann, Blackburn, Parker, Praeger, Calyer, McGee, Cushing, Anderson, Calvert, Ramsey, Straughn, Thorp, McLish, Childress, Lapham, Barnett: these and others have led or countered GUERILLAS. MARX did not invent GUERRILLA WAR, it was a military phenomenon centuries before his birth; but it has been seized and converted into a comfortable vehicle of Cold-War combat by International Communism. To defeat it, we must know what it is and how it works; to wage it we must understand its PRINCIPLES. That is why this book was written!
Author : Christopher Sykes
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Orde Wingate written by Christopher Sykes and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four months after Orde Wingate (1903-1944) died in a plane crash in Burma, Churchill told the House of Commons that he was “a man of genius who might well have become also a man of destiny.” An unconventional soldier — as a junior officer, he complained directly to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff during an exercise about being refused entry to the Staff College —, Wingate first showed his military genius in Palestine (1936-39), where as an ardent supporter of the Jews and of Zionism, he organized the Special Night Squads, armed groups of British and Haganah volunteers, at Ein Harod in the Galilee to fight Arab attacks. In Ethiopia, where he commanded the troops supporting Haile Selassie, his brilliant campaign played a key part in the Italian defeat and the restoration of the Emperor to his throne. Wingate is mainly remembered as the leader of the Chindits guerilla brigade in Burma where, in February 1943, as Britain’s fortunes in Burma were at their lowest ebb, he led his brigade far behind the Japanese lines, harassing communications and gaining the jungle experience which would prove a vital factor in the second and larger operation and in eventual victory. “This is an excellent and well-balanced study of the brilliant if eccentric British officer and his activities in Palestine, Ethiopia and Burma.” — Henry L. Roberts, Foreign Affairs “An absorbingly interesting portrait of a military genius who at times seems slightly mad, and almost never wholly normal. Rebellious against authority, though he came from a line of army people, mysterious in his ruthlessness, his fanaticism, his unwillingness to explain his motives, Wingate... made more enemies than friends... Surely, he makes a fascinating subject for a biography.” — Kirkus “This is a fine biography of an extraordinary man... a skillful combination of bright narrative and clear analysis... an excellent portrait of the man... Based upon a large storehouse of documents, interrogations, secondary works, and trips to the scenes of Wingate’s major campaigns, this volume is by far the best study to date on this forceful and erratic figure. No doubt it will remain so for a long time to come.” — Gordon W. Prange, Military Affairs “Christopher Sykes’ Orde Wingate reveals enormous research work, an overall understanding of the problems of the time, and sufficient critical distance for an evaluation of the man and his deeds... Sykes’ plastic art of description... found in this biography fullest expression; it is a literary treat.” — Oskar K. Rabinowicz, Jewish Social Studies
Author : United States Air Force Academy. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unconventional Warfare written by United States Air Force Academy. Library and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Special Bibliography Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
