Armoured Warfare In The Italian Campaign

Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783468980

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Armoured Warfare in the Italian Campaign, 1943–1945 by Anthony Tucker-Jones Pdf

This WWII pictorial history illustrates the wide array of armored vehicles deployed by Allied and Axis powers in Italy. The Second World War campaigns in North Africa, on the Eastern Front and in northwest Europe were dominated by armored warfare, but the battles in Italy were not. The Italian peninsula’s mountainous terrain was best suited to an infantry war. Yet from the Allied landings in Sicily in 1943 to the German surrender after the crossing of the Po in 1945, tanks, self-propelled guns and armored cars were essential elements in the operations of both sides. Anthony Tucker-Jones’s selection of rare wartime photographs shows armor in battle at Salerno, Anzio and Monte Cassino, during the struggle for the Gustav Line, the advance on Rome and the liberation of northern Italy. These dramatic images reveal the full array of Axis and Allied armored vehicles that was deployed, including German Panzers, Panthers, and Tigers and Allied Stuarts, Chafees, Shermans and Churchills. They also vividly illustrate the Italian landscapes over which the campaign was fought and the grueling conditions endured by the men who fought in it.

Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Tanks (Military science)
ISBN : OCLC:1162507987

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Armoured Warfare in the Italian Campaign by Anthony Tucker-Jones Pdf

The Second World War campaigns in North Africa, on the Eastern Front and in northwest Europe were dominated by armored warfare, but the battles in Italy were not. The mountainous topography of the Italian peninsula ensured that it was foremost an infantry war, so it could be said that tanks played a supporting role. Yet, as Anthony Tucker-Jones demonstrates, in the battles fought from the Allied landings in Sicily in 1943 to the German surrender after the crossing of the Po in 1945, tanks, self-propelled guns and armored cars were essential elements in the operations of both sides. His selecti.

Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
Publisher : Images of War
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1848845677

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Armoured Warfare in the North African Campaign by Anthony Tucker-Jones Pdf

The North African campaign, the struggle of the Italians and Germans against the Allies in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia between 1940 and 1943, was a war of movement and maneuver, of dramatic changes of fortune, and it was a war in which mechanized forces - tanks in particular - excelled. Compared with the heavily populated landscapes of northwest Europe, the empty open spaces of North Africa appeared to be ideal operating terrain for tanks, yet the harsh desert conditions tested men and machinery to the limit, as Anthony Tucker-Jones demonstrates in this remarkable selection of wartime photographs. The use of armor during the entire course of the campaign is covered, from the initial Italian offensive, the arrival of Rommel's Panzergruppe Afrika, the battles fought along the North African shore which culminated in El Alamein, then the Allied advance into Tunisia which led to the final defeat of the German and Italian armies. The images give a fascinating inside view of combat, but they also reveal the daily routines of tank warfare 65 years ago, and give a vivid impression of what it was like to fight in and live with the tanks of the day - the German Mk IIIs and Mk IVs and the Tiger, the British Matildas and Valentines and the American Grants and Shermans that contributed so much to the Allied victory. Training, maintenance, transportation and supply are shown, as are the daily lives of the tank crews and extreme conditions in which they worked and fought.

Author : Jeffrey Plowman
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526718952

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Monte Cassino by Jeffrey Plowman Pdf

“This book is highly recommended to anyone with an interest in the Italian campaign of the Second World War, and the use of armor in that war.”—British Military History The battles fought between the Allied armies and the German Wehrmacht at Monte Cassino in 1944 were key episodes in the protracted Italian campaign, and the eventual Allied victory was a decisive step in the wider war to liberate Europe from German occupation. Much has been written about Cassino, but few books have chosen to tell the story through photographs—to give a visual insight into the fighting and the forces involved, the conditions in which they fought, and the landscape around the Monte Cassino abbey which became a battlefield. That is why Jeffrey Plowman’s photographic history is of such value. Using almost 200 wartime images, many of which have not been published before, he gives a graphic impression of the realities of the fighting as it was experienced by the troops on the ground. He focuses on the tanks—the array of armored vehicles deployed by both sides which played a critical role. This aspect of Cassino has rarely been covered in such detail and in such a vivid way. The book will be of special interest to modelers and historians of armored warfare, but it will also appeal to readers who have a more general interest in the Italian campaign. “The amount of information provided for each photograph is exceptional . . . I commend the author for building such a comprehensive portfolio of fascinating images.”—Walking the Battlefields

Author : Bastian Matteo Scianna
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030265243

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The Italian War on the Eastern Front, 1941–1943 by Bastian Matteo Scianna Pdf

The Italian Army’s participation in Hitler’s war against the Soviet Union has remained unrecognized and understudied. Bastian Matteo Scianna offers a wide-ranging, in-depth corrective. Mining Italian, German and Russian sources, he examines the history of the Italian campaign in the East between 1941 and 1943, as well as how the campaign was remembered and memorialized in the domestic and international arena during the Cold War. Linking operational military history with memory studies, this book revises our understanding of the Italian Army in the Second World War.

Author : Dominick Graham,Shelford Bidwell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473819931

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Tug of War by Dominick Graham,Shelford Bidwell Pdf

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 : John Joseph Timothy Sweet
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0811733513

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Iron Arm by John Joseph Timothy Sweet Pdf

- A detailed study of Italy's long-ignored tank force - Explores the intersection of technology, war, and society in Mussolini's Italy - Second only to Germany in number of tank divisions, first to create an armored corps Though overshadowed by Germany's more famous Afrika Korps, Italian tanks formed a large part of the Axis armored force that the Allies confronted--and ultimately defeated--in North Africa in the early years of World War II. Those tanks were the product of two decades of debate and development as the Italian military struggled to produce a modern, mechanized army in the aftermath of World War I. For a time, Italy stood near the front of the world's tank forces--but once war came, Mussolini's iron arm failed as an effective military force. This is the story of its rise and fall.

Author : Lee Windsor
Publisher : New Brunswick Military Heritag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 086492657X

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Steel Cavalry by Lee Windsor Pdf

Steel Calvary is the story of the transformation of a horse cavalry unit to one of Canada's most famous armoured regiments. Twentieth century warfare is epitomized by the image of Allied tanks growling across the countryside, engaging their Nazi counterparts. One of the most storied of such regiments is the 8th (New Brunswick) Hussars. Founded in 1848 as the first volunteer cavalry regiment in British North America, the Hussars began the Second World War as a Motorcycle Regiment before converting to tanks in 1941. First posted to Italy in late 1943, the regiment was introduced to war near Ortona. They formed part of the great drive beyond Monte Cassino to Rome. But their reputation was forged at the Gothic Line and Coriano Ridge during two weeks that marked their fiercest and bloodiest trial of the war. Steel Cavalry: The 8th (New Brunswick) Hussars and the Second World War is volume 18 in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series.

Author : Simon Forty
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526766236

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Allied Armies in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1945 by Simon Forty Pdf

The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of the Second World War, splitting the American and British allies, and causing great disharmony. After the fall of Rome and the surrender of Italy, the invasion of Normandy led to the Italian campaign becoming a sideshow as the ‘D-Day Dodgers’ fought their way through Italy to the Alps against a grinding defence and extreme weather. In a sequence of 200 wartime photographs Simon Forty sums up the major events of the conflict – from the landings on Sicily to the crossing of the Po. Commanded first by Sir Harold Alexander and then Mark Clark, the Allied armies (US Fifth and British Eighth) drew men not only from Britain, the United States, France and Poland but from all over the Commonwealth – from Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa – as well as such other countries as Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Greece and Palestine. The devastation caused by the war in the cities, towns and countryside is part of the story, but perhaps the most powerful impression is made by the faces of the soldiers themselves as they look out from the Italian front of so long ago.

Author : David Baldwin Clark
Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1894263359

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Lamone by David Baldwin Clark Pdf

Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783469000

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Armoured Warfare in Northwest Europe, 1944–1945 by Anthony Tucker-Jones Pdf

This latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Joness series of photographic histories of armored warfare records in graphic detail the role played by tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery during the decisive campaign in northwest Europe in 1944-5. In a sequence of over 200 archive photographs he shows how American, British, Canadian, and Polish armored divisions spearheaded the assault on the Third Reich, and how the Wehrmacht mounted a desperate armored defense. Tanks were required to operate in the dust of Normandy, the mud and waters of the Scheldt and Rhine rivers and the snows of the Ardennes and the forests of Germany. A succession of crucial armored engagements was fought during the D-Day landings, Operation Goodwood and the struggle for the Bourgubus ridge, the Falaise pocket, the Seine crossing, Arnhem, the German attack in the Ardennes, the Rhine crossing, in the Reichswald and during the rearguard actions and the last-ditch tank battles fought by the panzers in the Ruhr before the German surrender. Anthony Tucker-Joness photographic survey of the ultimate tank battles of the Second World War illustrates the range of armored fighting vehicles that were developed during the conflict, and it features the specialized vehicles deployed in Europe for the first time such as the Buffalo, DUKW, Weasel and Terrapin.

Author : Ian W Walker
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847974730

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Iron Hulls, Iron Hearts by Ian W Walker Pdf

The campaign in North Africa during World War Two was one of the most important of the conflict. The allies fought for control of North Africa against the German Afrika Korps led by Rommel. But the part played by Mussolini's Italian troops, and in particular the armoured divisions, in support of the Germans is not so well known. This painstakingly researched book looks in detail at the role of Mussolini's three armoured divisions - Ariete, Littorio and Centauro - and the invaluable part they played in Rommel's offensive between 1941 and 1943. Indeed, the author is able to show that on many occasions the presence and performance of the Italian armoured divisions was crucial to the success of the axis campaign.

Author : Ian Gooderson
Publisher : Anova Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1844860590

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A Hard Way to Make a War by Ian Gooderson Pdf

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Author : Ian Blackwell
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783032440

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Fifth Army in Italy, 1943–1945 by Ian Blackwell Pdf

A history of the Allied coalition in Italy during World War II. The US Fifth Army first saw action during the Salerno Landings in September 1943. While commanded by US Lieutenant General Mark Clark, from the outset one of its two Corps was the X (British) Corps; the other V1 (US) Corps. The multi-national composition of Fifth Army is demonstrated by the French Expeditionary Corps, the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, the South African Armoured Division, the Italian Co-Belligerent forces, formations from the New Zealand Corps and the 4th Indian Division. Clark’s Fifth Army was itself part of the Fifteenth Army Group, commanded by Field Marshal Alexander. Alexander’s light and diplomatic touch oiled the wheels of this uneasy arrangement but inevitably there were tensions and disagreements that threatened success. The low priority accorded to Italy as compared with OVERLORD and NW Europe did not help matters. Seen as a backwater, crack units were taken away and insufficient resources allocated to the Italian Campaign. This combined with the tenacity of the Germans, the difficult terrain and the harsh climate caused real problems. Allied morale was at times particularly brittle and desertion rates worryingly high. This superbly researched book objectively examines the performance of Fifth Army against this complex and troublesome backdrop. The author’s findings make for authoritative and fascinating reading and give food for thought about multinational cooperation in more recent conflicts.

Author : Bill McAndrew,Canada. Dept. of National Defence,Canada Communication Group. Publishing
Publisher : Art global
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020399361

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Canadians and the Italian Campaign, 1943-1945 by Bill McAndrew,Canada. Dept. of National Defence,Canada Communication Group. Publishing Pdf

Using first person accounts the author paints a compelling portrait of the nearly 93,000 Canadians who served in this campaign, more than a quarter of whom became casualties. These men and women faced inhospitable terrain, disease and a skilled enemy in a theater, which was largely overshadowed by D-Day. The battles fought by Canadian units fill their regimental colors with battle honors serving in this almost forgotten campaign that they derisively labeled "The Spaghetti League." With their bravery and perseverance, these D-Day Dodgers accomplished all that was asked of them, and wrote an honorable page in Canada's military history.