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Author : Franz Kurowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780921991779
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Battleground Italy 1943-1945 written by Franz Kurowski and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dominick Graham
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473819938
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Tug of War written by Dominick Graham and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2004-05-30 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Allies invaded mainland Italy in 1943 they intended only a clearing-up operation to knock Italy out of the war, but Hitler ordered the German armies to defend every foot of the country. The 'Tug of War' was the mysterious force which caused a war to race out of control, and attract vast numbers of men, tanks, guns and aircraft. The book analyses the main battles of Salerno, Cassino, Anzio and the march on Rome.
Author : Charles T. O'Reilly
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739101957
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Forgotten Battles written by Charles T. O'Reilly and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy's War of Liberation takes issue with the apparently prevalent attitude among Allied commanders during World War II that the Italian military was ineffective. O'Reilly recounts the little-known story of the significant contribution made by the Italian military during the Italian Campaign, including the contribution of relatively unacknowledged Italian Partisan formations that fought in Italy, France, Yugoslavia, and Greece. Despite the fact that Italians fought on the front lines with the British and American soldiers, and despite the service of the Italian Navy and Air Force, the Allies refused repeated Italian pleas for more involvement in combat. This book not only attempts to correct the record of military history by illustrating the ways in which the Italians were underutilized by the Allies, but it also serves to paint a fair portrait of the Italian military's substantial efforts to defeat Hitler and eradicate Fascism.
Author : Richard Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140237443
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (374 download)
Download or read book War in Italy, 1943-1945 written by Richard Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dominick Graham
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312823238
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Tug of War written by Dominick Graham and published by New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the invasion of Italy during World War II, analyzes the strategies of Allied and German forces, and includes profiles of the military leaders on both sides
Author : Malcolm Edward Tudor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953896448
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (964 download)
Download or read book At War in Italy 1943-1945 written by Malcolm Edward Tudor and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Morris
Publisher : Crown Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780517578100
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (781 download)
Download or read book Circles of Hell written by Eric Morris and published by Crown Pub. This book was released on 1993 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical look at this appallingly managed campaign describes how the Allies triumphed in spite of dissent, desertion, venereal disease, and the actions of a weak and irresolute British commander and a power-hungry American one. 10,000 first printing.
Author : Stephan D. Yada-Mc Neal
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3746097959
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Places of shame - German war crimes in Italy 1943-1945 written by Stephan D. Yada-Mc Neal and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the invasion of the allied troops began for Italy not only the fight against Germany, but also a time of the horror. This book is intended to give a brief overview of the events from September 1943 to the German capitulation in May 1945. The incredible massacre of Italian soldiers on the Greek island of Cephalonia can also be found in this book, as well as the massacres of Marzabotto, Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Roma - Fosse Ardeatine and many other little-known villages. Hundreds of villages and towns, thousands of civilians, men, women but also children can be found here in this book and give us only slightly the horror of this time. Learning from history means preventing something from happening again.
Author : Rick Atkinson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429920106
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Day of Battle written by Rick Atkinson and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy In An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north toward Rome. The Italian campaign's outcome was never certain; in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate about whether an invasion of the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was even a good idea. But once under way, the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered, despite the agonizingly high price. The battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino were particularly difficult and lethal, yet as the months passed, the Allied forces continued to drive the Germans up the Italian peninsula. Led by Lieutenant General Mark Clark, one of the war's most complex and controversial commanders, American officers and soldiers became increasingly determined and proficient. And with the liberation of Rome in June 1944, ultimate victory at last began to seem inevitable. Drawing on a wide array of primary source material, written with great drama and flair, this is narrative history of the first rank. With The Day of Battle, Atkinson has once again given us the definitive account of one of history's most compelling military campaigns.
Author : Edwin P. Hoyt
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0275974782
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Backwater War written by Edwin P. Hoyt and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year before the much-heralded second front was opened at Normandy in 1944, the Allies waged a campaign in Sicily and Italy—an assault that was marked by argument and dissent from beginning to end, highlighting the fundamental differences in strategic thinking between the Americans and the British. Winston Churchill favored scrapping what would become the Normandy invasion entirely, focusing instead on the soft underbelly of Nazi Europe, but American planners summarily rejected any plan that relied solely on a southern option. This is the story of this backwater campaign, a series of battles skillfully staged by the Germans and so botched by the Allies that their victory was achieved only as a result of German exhaustion. During the hard-fought campaign, the Americans persisted in their suspicion that the British were trying to undermine the effort. For example, the imbroglio over the Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino and the ineptness of the British assault, led by a commander already discredited by his role in the fall of Crete, would spur the Americans to overreact and destroy the monastery by bombing. This created a major propaganda victory for the Germans. Such incidents convinced both Washington and London that they were working at cross-purposes. Hoyt contends that, as the British argued at the time, Allied efforts would have been better-spent concentrating on the Balkans. The Normandy campaign was expensive, unnecessary, and ultimately lengthened the war.
Author : James Holland
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429945435
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Italy's Sorrow written by James Holland and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, the campaign in Italy was the most destructive fought in Europe - a long, bitter and highly attritional conflict that raged up the country's mountainous leg. For frontline troops, casualty rates at Cassino and along the notorious Gothic Line were as high as they had been on the Western Front in the First World War. There were further similarities too: blasted landscapes, rain and mud, and months on end with the front line barely moving. And while the Allies and Germans were fighting it out through the mountains, the Italians were engaging in bitter battles too. Partisans were carrying out a crippling resistance campaign against the German troops but also battling the Fascists forces as well in what soon became a bloody civil war. Around them, innocent civilians tried to live through the carnage, terror and anarchy, while in the wake of the Allied advance, horrific numbers of impoverished and starving people were left to pick their way through the ruins of their homes and country. In the German-occupied north, there were more than 700 civilian massacres by German and Fascist troops in retaliation for Partisan activities, while in the south, many found themselves forced into making terrible and heart-rending decisions in order to survive. Although known as a land of beauty and for the richness of its culture, Italy's suffering in 1944-1945 is now largely forgotten. Italy's Sorrow by James Holland is the first account of the conflict there to tell the story from all sides and to include the experiences of soldiers and civilians alike. Offering extensive original research, it weaves together the drama and tragedy of that terrible year, including new perspectives and material on some of the most debated episodes to have emerged from World War II.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330482301
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Italy 1943-1945 written by NA NA and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-09-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Had the Germans been able to deploy their forces in Italy against the D-Day landings and subsequent offensive, there could have been a very different situation in northern Europe in 1944-45. The hard-fought campaign in Italy, vividly portrayed in this book, probably made the difference.
Author : Edwin P. Hoyt
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811733823
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Backwater War written by Edwin P. Hoyt and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Allies waged an assault in Sicily and Italy marked by dissent from beginning to end. Includes the controversial bombing of Monte Cassino.
Author : Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Backwater War written by Edwin Palmer Hoyt and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Holland
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802161057
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Savage Storm written by James Holland and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland both narrates and reframes the controversial first months of the Italian Campaign and sets a new standard in the chronicling of war Following victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops crossed into southern Italy in September 1943, expecting to drive Axis forces north and liberate Rome by Christmas. Italy quickly surrendered but German divisions fiercely resisted, and the hoped-for quick victory descended into one of the most challenging and protracted battles of the entire war. James Holland’s The Savage Storm, chronicling the dramatic opening months of the Italian Campaign in unflinching and insightful detail, is unlike any campaign history yet written. Holland has always narrated war at ground level, but here goes further by chronicling events almost entirely through the contemporary eyes of those who were there on all sides and at all levels—Allied, Axis, civilians alike. Weaving together a wealth of letters, diaries, and other documents—from the likes of American General Mark Clark, German battalion commander Georg Zellner, New Zealand lance-corporal Roger Smith, legendary war reporter Ernie Pyle, and Italian politician Filippo Caracciolo—Holland traces the battles as they were experienced across plains, over mountains, through shattered villages and cities, in intense heat and, towards the end of December 1943, frigid cold and relentless rain. Such close-up views persuade Holland to recast important aspects of the campaign, reappraising the reputation of Mark Clark himself and other senior commanders of the U.S. Fifth and British Eighth armies. Given the shortage of Allied shipping and materiel allocated to Italy because of the build-up for D-Day, more was expected of Allied troops in Italy than anywhere else, and, as accounts at the time attest, a huge price was paid by everyone for each bloodily contested mile. Putting readers vividly in the moment as events unfolded, with characters made unforgettable by their own words, The Savage Storm is a defining account of the pivotal months leading to Monte Cassino, and a landmark in the writing about war.
Author : Eugenio Corti
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826264379
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Last Soldiers of the King written by Eugenio Corti and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the remnant of Italian officers and men, as they sought to reestablish themselves as Italian soldiers. The Last Soldiers of the King tells the story of a proud people forced to endure death, poverty, and the virtual destruction of their nation." --Book Jacket.
Author : Philip Jowett
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399073125
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Italian Campaign, 1943–1945 written by Philip Jowett and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War Italian campaign is often less well remembered than the struggle of the Germans against the western Allies in north-west Europe and against the Soviet Union in the east. But, as this book demonstrates in over 300 photographs, the Italian peninsula was a major theater of the war in itself. More than a million Allied troops fought there, more than half a million Germans and Italians; there were over 600,00 casualties and well over 100,000 dead. The soldiers of many nations took part – Americans, Australians, Brazilians, British, Canadians, French, Germans, Greeks, Indians, Italians, Poles, South Africans – in a grueling and protracted sequence of battles across rocky, mountainous terrain that made a mockery of Churchill’s description of it as the ‘soft underbelly’ of occupied Europe. Every stage of the campaign is represented in the photographs – from the Allied landings in Sicily in 1943, through the tenacious defense by the Germans of a series of fortified lines as the Allies struggled north, to the final Allied advance across the Po in April 1945 and the German surrender. As well as showing the soldiers on all sides and the towns and Italian landscapes in which the fighting took place, the photographs record the appalling devastation the warfare left in its wake.
