Author: United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
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The Mediterranean Theater of Operations
Author: United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages :
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The War Against Germany and Italy
Author: Kenneth E. Hunter
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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The Path to Victory
Author: Douglas Porch
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374529765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The Mediterranean theater in World War II has long been overlooked by historians who believe it was little more than a string of small-scale battles--sideshows that were of minor importance in a war whose outcome was decided in the clashes of mammoth tank armies in northern Europe. But in this ground-breaking new book, one of our finest military historians argues that the Mediterranean was World War II's pivotal theater. Douglas Porch examines the Mediterranean as an integrated arena, one in which events in Syria and Suez influenced the survival of Gibraltar. Without a Mediterranean alternative, the Western Allies would probably have committed to a premature cross-Channel invasion in 1943 that might well have cost them the war. Brilliantly argued, with vivid portraits of Churchill, Montgomery, FDR, Rommel, and Mussolini, this original, accessible, and compelling account of a little-known theater emphasizes the importance of the Mediterranean in the ultimate Allied victory in Europe in World War II.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374529765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The Mediterranean theater in World War II has long been overlooked by historians who believe it was little more than a string of small-scale battles--sideshows that were of minor importance in a war whose outcome was decided in the clashes of mammoth tank armies in northern Europe. But in this ground-breaking new book, one of our finest military historians argues that the Mediterranean was World War II's pivotal theater. Douglas Porch examines the Mediterranean as an integrated arena, one in which events in Syria and Suez influenced the survival of Gibraltar. Without a Mediterranean alternative, the Western Allies would probably have committed to a premature cross-Channel invasion in 1943 that might well have cost them the war. Brilliantly argued, with vivid portraits of Churchill, Montgomery, FDR, Rommel, and Mussolini, this original, accessible, and compelling account of a little-known theater emphasizes the importance of the Mediterranean in the ultimate Allied victory in Europe in World War II.
United States Army in World War II.: The Mediterranean theater of operations
Author: Ernest F. Fisher
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Cassino to the Alps
Author: Ernest F. Fisher
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Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Languages : en
Pages : 584
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History of the Mediterranean Theater of Operation
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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United States Army in World War II.: The Mediterranean theater of operations
Author: United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military History
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Sicily and the Surrender of Italy
Author: Lieutenant Albert Garland
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781515100430
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
(Includes maps) This volume, the second to be published in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations subseries, takes up where George F. Howe's Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West left off. It integrates the Sicilian Campaign with the complicated negotiations involved in the surrender of Italy. The Sicilian Campaign was as complex as the negotiations, and is equally instructive. On the Allied side it included American, British, and Canadian soldiers as well as some Tabors of Goums; major segments of the U.S. Army Air Forces and of the Royal Air Force; and substantial contingents of the U.S. Navy and the Royal Navy. Opposing the Allies were ground troops and air forces of Italy and Germany, and the Italian Navy. The fighting included a wide variety of operations: the largest amphibious assault of World War II; parachute jumps and air landings; extended overland marches; tank battles; precise and remarkably successful naval gunfire support of troops on shore; agonizing struggles for ridge tops; and extensive and skillful artillery support. Sicily was a testing ground for the U.S. soldier, fighting beside the more experienced troops of the British Eighth Army, and there the American soldier showed what he could do. The negotiations involved in Italy's surrender were rivaled in complexity and delicacy only by those leading up to the Korean armistice. The relationship of tactical to diplomatic activity is one of the most instructive and interesting features of this volume. Military men were required to double as diplomats and to play both roles with skill.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781515100430
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
(Includes maps) This volume, the second to be published in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations subseries, takes up where George F. Howe's Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West left off. It integrates the Sicilian Campaign with the complicated negotiations involved in the surrender of Italy. The Sicilian Campaign was as complex as the negotiations, and is equally instructive. On the Allied side it included American, British, and Canadian soldiers as well as some Tabors of Goums; major segments of the U.S. Army Air Forces and of the Royal Air Force; and substantial contingents of the U.S. Navy and the Royal Navy. Opposing the Allies were ground troops and air forces of Italy and Germany, and the Italian Navy. The fighting included a wide variety of operations: the largest amphibious assault of World War II; parachute jumps and air landings; extended overland marches; tank battles; precise and remarkably successful naval gunfire support of troops on shore; agonizing struggles for ridge tops; and extensive and skillful artillery support. Sicily was a testing ground for the U.S. soldier, fighting beside the more experienced troops of the British Eighth Army, and there the American soldier showed what he could do. The negotiations involved in Italy's surrender were rivaled in complexity and delicacy only by those leading up to the Korean armistice. The relationship of tactical to diplomatic activity is one of the most instructive and interesting features of this volume. Military men were required to double as diplomats and to play both roles with skill.
United States Army in World War II.: The mediterranean theater of operations
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Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Languages : en
Pages : 586
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United States Army in World War II.: The Mediterranean theater of operations
Author: Ernest F. Fisher
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Publisher:
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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