Battleground Italy 1943-1945
Author: Franz Kurowski
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 9780921991779
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Franz Kurowski
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 9780921991779
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dominick Graham
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2004-05-30
Total Pages: 635
ISBN-13: 1473819938
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780739101957
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780140237443
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Edwin P. Hoyt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2002-06-30
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0313076758
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Dominick Graham
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780312823238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Rick Atkinson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-09-16
Total Pages: 852
ISBN-13: 9780805088618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Eric Morris
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stephan D. Yada-Mc Neal
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-03-09
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 3746097959
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Eugenio Corti
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0826264379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.