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Author : Edwin P. Hoyt
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0811733823
The Allies waged an assault in Sicily and Italy marked by dissent from beginning to end. Includes the controversial bombing of Monte Cassino.
Author : Edwin P. Hoyt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313076756
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 : Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:1285478755
Author : Peggy Woodford
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1975-01
Category : Guernsey
ISBN : 0374304777
Portrays the disruption in the life of a family when the Germans occupy the Channel Island of Guernsey during World War II.
Author : Robert W. Black
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811741477
Covers raids from J. E. B. Stuart's 1862 ride around McClellan's army to James Wilson's crashing raids in Alabama and Georgia in 1865.
Author : Geoffrey C. Ward,Ken Burns
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307498595
The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost. Focusing on the citizens of four towns— Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama;—The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa. Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, including many never published before, this is an intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the war that shaped our world. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811741521
The most famous battles of one of World War II's most legendary commanders. Told largely from Rommel's perspective, using his papers and letters.
Author : John J. Toffey
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780823229796
"I see this book as the story my father never got to tell," John Toffey writes. And what a remarkable story it is that Lt. Col. Jack Toffey never got to tell. In this moving account of a young man's journey to know a father who went to war in 1942 and never came back, John Toffey weaves memory, history, and his father's vivid letters home into a fascinating tale of a family, a war, and the threads that connect them. John Toffey was nine when his father's National Guard outfit was mobilized. For two years Toffey, his mother, and his sister moved from post to post before his dad shipped out--to North Africa, fighting the Vichy French in Morocco, then the Germans in Tunisia, where he was wounded. In July 1943 he went back to war, leading an infantry battalion in the invasions of Sicily and southern Italy. In January 1944 he landed his battalion at Anzio and was wounded again. After a long, bitter stalemate, Toffey's regiment led Mark Clark's push on Rome. On June 3, 1944, Jack Toffey was killed in the hill town of Palestrina, one day before the Allies marched into Rome. In a brutal campaign, Jack Toffey had commanded a combat battalion longer than any other officer in the Mediterranean theater. Only in 1996, when his father's letters were discovered, did John Toffey begin to piece together what happened to his father. And he tells this contested story of Allied success and failure with drama, steely reserve, and balance, adding an invaluable perspective to the portrait of Jack Toffey created by Rick Atkinson in his bestselling Day of Battle. This book is also a lovingly crafted portrait of home front Ohio, and how a young boy, his sister, and his mother waited out their war, scanning newspapers and magazines for news of Dad and devouring letters full of easy humor and expressions of love for and pride in his family and dreams of a good life after the war.
Author : Hans Wijers
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811759274
This is the story of their bitter combat--in the words of German and American soldiers who were there.
Author : Hans J. Wijers
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811735872
Presents the story of the 1st Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge, offering firsthand accounts from American and German soldiers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCBK:C098769924
Author : Richard Samuel Jessop Clarke
Publisher : Ulster Historical Foundation
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1903688507
Ulster has produced an impressive number of surgeons who have gained world-wide renown. None has been more celebrated, or more deserving of a biography than Sir Ian Fraser whose life spanned almost the whole of the 20th century. Following a brillant university career, Fraser's training occupied most of the inter-war years. As with most innovatory surgeons, his career really flourished in war-time conditions. During the Second World War, he was at the forefront of the early field trials of a drug that would benefit the whole of mankind - penecillin - first, in the crucial allied victory in North Africa and then in Italy. For the courage and skill he consistently showed during during these campaigns, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. In 1945 came his timely appointment to the surgical staff of the Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast, in which he was to serve with equal distinction until his retirement in 1966. Richard Clarke's sympathetic, insightful and not uncritical biography could only have been written by someone who was taught by Fraser and who then worked alongside him. The outcome is a fascinating, and informed overall view of Sir Ian Fraser, the surgeon, the teacher, the writer and, above all, the man.
Author : Col. Robert W. Black
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811712736
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Author : William Daniel Ehrhart,Philip K. Jason
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813526396
Many of the twelve stories and fifty poems assembled in Retrieving Bones have long been out of print and are almost impossible to find in any other source. The editors have enhanced this collection by providing maps, a chronology of the Korean War, and annotated lists of novels, works of nonfiction, and films. In a detailed introduction, Ehrhart and Jason discuss the milestones of the Korean War and place each fiction writer and poet represented into historical and literary contexts.
Author : Richard Hargreaves
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811715515
In early 1945, the Red Army plunged into the Third Reich from the east, rolling up territory and crushing virtually everything in its path, with one exception: the city of Breslau, which Hitler had declared a fortress-city, to be defended to the death. This book examines in detail the notorious four-month siege of Breslau. • The first full-length English-language account of the bloody siege • Chronicles the bitter struggle as the Red Army encircled Breslau and eventually pillaged the city, taking savage retribution on the survivors • Details the brutal methods used by the city's Nazi leaders to keep German troops fighting and maintain order