Battleground Italy 1943-1945
Author : Franz Kurowski
Publisher :
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2003
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780921991779
Author : Franz Kurowski
Publisher :
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2003
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780921991779
Author : Dominick Graham
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2004-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1473819938
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
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739101957
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 :
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Italy
ISBN : 9780140237443
Author : Dominick Graham
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312823238
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 :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Prisoner-of-war escapes
ISBN : 9780953896448
Author : Eric Morris
Publisher : Crown Pub
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 1993
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780517578100
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
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 3746097959
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 : Edwin P. Hoyt
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0275974782
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 : Philip Jowett
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1399073141
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 theatre 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 gruelling 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.