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Download or read book Salerno 1943 written by Angus Konstam and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling account of the fierce ten-day battle that led to the end of Mussolini’s rule, with maps and photos. In September 1943, in the first weeks of the Allied campaign to liberate Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force of over 80,000 men was nearly beaten back into the sea by the German defenders in a ferocious ten-day battle at Salerno, south of Naples. This is the story of the tense, bitter struggle around the Salerno beachhead which decided the issue and changed the course of the campaign. For those ten critical days, the fate of Italy hung in the balance. Using documentary records, memoirs, and eyewitness accounts from all sides, Angus Konstam re-creates every stage of the battle at every level as it happened, day by day, hour by hour. His painstakingly researched account offers a fresh perspective on a decisive battle that has been neglected by British and American historians in recent years, and it gives a fascinating insight into the realities of warfare in Europe eighty years ago. Praise for Angus Konstam’s previous books “Wonderful details.” —Publishers Weekly “Riveting.” —History of War "Interesting and exciting . . . thoroughly enjoyable.” —Booklist
Download or read book Salerno 1943 written by Angus Konstam and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1943, in the first weeks of the Allied campaign to liberate Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force of over 80,000 men was nearly beaten back into the sea by the German defenders in a ferocious ten-day battle at Salerno, south of Naples. This is the story of the tense, bitter struggle around the Salerno beach-head which decided the issue and changed the course of the campaign - for those ten critical days the fate of Italy hung in the balance. Using documentary records, memoirs and eyewitness accounts from all sides, Angus Konstam recreates every stage of the battle at every level as it happened, day by day, hour by hour. His painstakingly researched account offers a fresh perspective on a decisive battle that has been neglected by British and American historians in recent years, and it gives a fascinating insight into the realities of warfare in Europe 60 years ago.
Download or read book Salerno 1943 written by Angus Konstam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In mid-September 1943, as the opening move of the Allied campaign to liberate the mainland of Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force landed on the beaches of the Gulf of Salerno, only a few dozen miles to the south of Naples. Italy had just surrendered, and the soldiers in the landing craft prayed that the invasion would be unopposed. It was not to be. The Germans had seized control of the Italian-built beach defences, and were ready and waiting. The ferocious ten-day battle at Salerno was eventually decided by a combination of Allied reinforcements, and secondary landings in support of the beleaguered Salerno bridgehead. Using documentary records, memoirs and eyewitness accounts from all sides, Angus Konstam recreates the battle day by day, hour by hour. His methodically researched account offers a fresh perspective on a decisive battle that has largely been neglected by British and American historians in recent years.
Download or read book Operation Avalanche written by Des Hickey and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1984 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some forty years later, the Allied landings on the Italian coast at Salerno before dawn on September 9, 1943, seem only a part of one of the half-forgotten campaigns of World War II. Yet it was in its day the largest amphibious invasion becoming the Allies' costliest blunder. Codenamed "Avalanche," the operation under U.S. General Mark Clark involved 500 ships and 165,000 American and British servicemen in the hazardous attempt to establish on the mainland of Occupied Europe a beachhead. It was the Allies' misfortune that the beach was ringed by jagged mountains where large concentrations of Hitler's Wehrmacht - the best-organized, best-equipped, most battle-proven army in the world - were securely dug into superb defensive positions. Mark Clark predicted that "Avalanche" would achieve its major objective, the capture of Naples, within three days. It was a bad miscalculation. "Avalanche" lasted for twenty-one desperate days and for a time threatened to become a greater débâcle than Gallipoli or Dunkirk. What went wrong? This book recreates those twenty-one critical days to provide some brutal answers. -- from inside jacket flap.
Book Synopsis Salerno by : United States. War Department. General Staff
Download or read book Salerno written by United States. War Department. General Staff and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Day of Battle by : Rick Atkinson
Download or read book The Day of Battle written by Rick Atkinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy.
Book Synopsis Salerno, American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturno, 9 September - 6 October 1943 by :
Download or read book Salerno, American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturno, 9 September - 6 October 1943 written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sicily-Salerno-Anzio by : Samuel Eliot Morison
Download or read book Sicily-Salerno-Anzio written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 1954-01-30 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ninth volume in Admiral Morison's history takes up the story of American naval activities in the Mediterranean where Volume II left off, and covers three major amphibious operations-the invasion of Sicily, the capture of the Salerno beachhead, and the long Anzio beachhead struggle. In all three the United States Navy distinguished itself, both for impeccable performance in landing the Army where it wanted to go, and in supporting with naval gunfire the troops fighting ashore.
Book Synopsis From the Volturno to the Winter Line (6 October-15 November 1943). by : United States. War Department. General Staff
Download or read book From the Volturno to the Winter Line (6 October-15 November 1943). written by United States. War Department. General Staff and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Salerno 1943 written by Angelo Pesce and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Salerno to Cassino by : Martin Blumenson
Download or read book Salerno to Cassino written by Martin Blumenson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Salerno, American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturno by : United States. War Department. General Staff
Download or read book Salerno, American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturno written by United States. War Department. General Staff and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sicily 1943 written by Steven J. Zaloga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only did the Sicily operation represent a watershed in tactical development of combined arms tactics, it was also an important test for future Allied joint operations. Senior British commanders left the North African theater with a jaundiced and dismissive view of the combat capabilities of the inexperienced US Army after the debacle at Kasserine Pass in Tunisia in February 1943. Sicily was a demonstration that the US Army had rapidly learned its lessons and was now capable of fighting as a co-equal of the British Army. The Sicily campaign contained a measure of high drama as Patton took the reins of the Seventh US Army and bent the rules of the theater commander in a bold race to take Palermo on the northern Sicilian coast. When stiff German resistance halted Montgomery's main assault to Messina through the mountains, Patton was posed to be the first to reach the key Sicilian port and end the campaign. The Sicily campaign contains a fair amount of controversy as well including the disastrous problems with early airborne assaults and the Allied failure to seal the straits of Messina, allowing the Germans to withdraw many of their best forces.
Author :U.s. Army Center for Military History Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781519215406 Total Pages :114 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (154 download)
Book Synopsis Salerno by : U.s. Army Center for Military History
Download or read book Salerno written by U.s. Army Center for Military History and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the command of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, the Fifth Army, a great Allied force composed of the British 10 Corps and the United States VI Corps, carried out the first large scale invasion of the European mainland and secured a firm base for future operations in Italy. "Salerno: The American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturno" is an account of the American forces who landed on the beaches in the Gulf of Salerno. The actions of our British allies have been duly recorded by their command. "Salerno: American Operations From the Beaches to the Volturno" (9 September-6 October 1943) is one of a series of fourteen studies of World War II operations originally published by the War Department's Historical Division and now returned to print as part of the Army's commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of that momentous clash of arms. These volumes, prepared by professional historians shortly after the events described, provide a concise summary of some of the major campaigns and battles fought by American soldiers.
Book Synopsis US Soldier Vs German Soldier by : Chris McNab
Download or read book US Soldier Vs German Soldier written by Chris McNab and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During World War II, the US Army and its allies faced a formidable challenge: the need to assault Hitler's "Fortress Empire" from the sea. In order to win and hold a contested beachhead in the face of bitter enemy resistance, the US Army's amphibious-warfare specialists, notably combat engineers, played a variety of essential battlefield roles; if the US troops could not establish and consolidate a beachhead quickly, they risked being thrown back into the sea. For their part, the Germans had to design practical defensive tactics that made the most of their limited resources, the troops available, and the nature of the terrain. The German infantry defenders immediately around the landing areas had to be able to call upon support from nearby artillery, mechanized troops, and armored forces to have a chance of containing the enemy beachhead. This illustrated study analyzes the essential roles played by combat engineers involved in three key battles - the Allied amphibious landings at Salerno and Anzio in Italy, and Omaha Beach in Normandy - and their German opponents, whose combat experience and effectiveness varied considerably."--
Book Synopsis Mutiny at Salerno, 1943 by : Saul David
Download or read book Mutiny at Salerno, 1943 written by Saul David and published by Conway. This book was released on 2005 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using official records and the verbal and written testimony of those involved, 'Mutiny at Salerno' gives a comprehensive account of the series of high-level blunders and deceptions that caused many 8th Army veterans to risk execution. Originally published: London: Brassey's, 1995.
Author :Center of Military History United States Army Publisher :CreateSpace ISBN 13 :9781508421481 Total Pages :100 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (214 download)
Book Synopsis Salerno by : Center of Military History United States Army
Download or read book Salerno written by Center of Military History United States Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First of the three-volume account of the Allied campaign in Italy from the landings in September 1943 to operations preceding the landings at Anzio and the march on Rome.
