Mediterranean And Middle East Volume Vi Victory In The Mediterranean Part Iii November 1944 To May 1945 History Of The Second World War United Kin

Author : General William Jackson
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
Page : 556 pages
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Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1783317655

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Mediterranean and Middle East Volume VI: Victory in the Mediterranean Part III, November 1944 to May 1945. HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: UNITED KIN by General William Jackson Pdf

The last of eight volumes in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War dealing with the war in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres, this book tells the final stage of the story from November 1944 to May 1945. It details the end of the war in Greece and Yugoslavia, but concentrates on the stubborn struggle in northern Italy. The narrative opens with the aborting of Field-Marshal Alexander's plan for a quick thrust to Vienna across north-eastern Italy, and describes political and other difficulties encountered in co-operating with Tito's Yugoslav partisans. Tito's fellow-Communist E.A.M./E.L.A.S. partisans in Greece attempted to take power in Athens in December 1944. Churchill intervened personally with the British army to crush the revolt. In the new year of 1945, a carefully prepared final allied offensive in Italy, Operation Grapeshot, destroyed the German Army Group C on the River Po. In the final days of the war, with secret negotiations for the surrender of Field Marshal Kesselring's German forces in Italy underway in Switzerland, Eighth Army crossed the Po and took Trieste. Kesselring surrendered on 2nd May. But as British forces moved in to occupy their allotted zone of Carinthia in southern Austria, they again found themselves clashing with Tito's partisans. In an epilogue, the authors look back at the hard-slogging Italian campaign, concluding that it was justified as an important diversion of German forces. Allied losses were limited, they argue, by the judicious use of overwhelming air and artillery power to save lives. With 10 appendices and 20 maps and diagrams.

Author : Ian Stanley Ord Playfair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015012439025

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The Mediterranean and Middle East by Ian Stanley Ord Playfair Pdf

Author : Ian Stanley Ord Playfair,C. J. C. Molony,Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1845740726

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The Mediterranean and Middle East: pt. 1. Victory in the Mediterranean 1st April to 4th June 1944 by Ian Stanley Ord Playfair,C. J. C. Molony,Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson Pdf

The last of eight volumes in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War dealing with the war in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres, this book tells the final stage of the story from November 1944 to May 1945. It details the end of the war in Greece and Yugoslavia, but concentrates on the stubborn struggle in northern Italy. The narrative opens with the aborting of Field-Marshal Alexander s plan for a quick thrust to Vienna across north-eastern Italy, and describes poltical and other difficulties encountered in co-operating with Tito s Yugoslav partisans. Tito s fellow-Communist E.A.M/E.L.A.S partisans in Greece attempted to take power in Athens in December 1944. Churchill intervened personally with the British army to crush the revolt. In the new year of 1945, a carefully prepared final allied offensive in Italy, Operatioon Grapeshot, destroyed the German Army Group C on the River Po. In the final days of the war, with secret negotiations for the surrender of Field Marshal Kesselring s German forces in Italy underway in Switzerland, Eighth Army crossed the Po and took Trieste. Kesselring surrendered on 2nd May. But as British forces moved in to occupy their alloted zone of Carinthia in southern Austria, they again found themselves clashing with Tito s partisans. In an epilogue, the authors look back at the hard-slogging Italian campaign, concluding that it was justified as an important diversion of German forces. Allied losses were limited, they argue, by the judicious use of overwhelming air and artillery power to save lives. With 10 appendices and 20 maps and diagrams.

Author : General William Jackson
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 178331804X

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MEDITERRANEAN AND MIDDLE EAST VOLUME VI; Victory in the Mediterranean Part II, June to October 1944. HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: United Kingdom M by General William Jackson Pdf

The penultimate volume in the eight books of the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War on the war in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres, this work describes the Italian campaign from June to October 1944. This gruelling summer campaign, Operation Dragoon, cleared central Italy of German forces, pushing their Army Group C back on the Gothic Line, which ran across the Italian peninsula from Lucca on the western coast to Pesaro on the Adriatic. But after the Line was breached, the Allied advance bogged down again, despite strenuous attempts in the early autumn to break into the strategically vital Po valley. In the face of continued German resistance, and worsening allied morale, General Alexander in October decided on a second winter in Italy, limiting his objectives to capturing Ravenna and Bologna. He was constrained by the demands of simultaneous campaigns in Normandy and southern France. Meanwhile, as the Germans, hard-pressed on other fronts, began to withdraw from the Greek islands, British forces moved in to fill the vacuum. With three appendices and 29 maps and diagrams.

Author : Brigadier C. J. C. Molony
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1783318031

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MEDITERRANEAN AND MIDDLE EAST VOLUME VI; Victory in the Mediterranean Part I, 1st April to 4th June1944. HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: United Kingd by Brigadier C. J. C. Molony Pdf

The sixth in the eight volumes describing the Mediterranean a Middle Eastern theatres in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War narrates the campaign in Italy from March to June 1944. After the Allies bogged down at Anzio and Monte Cassino, General Alexander determined on a Spring offensive - Operation Diadem - to take Monte Cassino, break the German defences of the Gustav Line, and capture Rome. The Line was successfully breached by the British Eighth and the US Fifth Armies within days of the offensive's opening and the subsidiary 'Hitler Line' was also broken. As a follow-up, American, Canadian and French forces broke out of the Anzio bridgehead where they had been bottled up since January. After heavy fighting, the Caesar Line, the last defence before the Italian capital, was broken and the Allies occupied Rome on 4th June. Elsewhere in the Mediterranean theatre, British special forces missions supported Marshal Tito's partisans in attacking the German occupying forces in Yugoslavia. There are chapters on Allied strategic disagreements; the war at sea, and the allied administration of Italy. The text has two appendices and 20 maps and diagrams.

Author : I.S.O. Playfair,C.J.C Molony,William Jackson,T.P. Gleave
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0116309466

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The Mediterranean and Middle East by I.S.O. Playfair,C.J.C Molony,William Jackson,T.P. Gleave Pdf

Author : Ian Stanley Ord Playfair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000010152829

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The Mediterranean and Middle East: Victory in the Mediterranean. pt. 1. 1st April to 4th June 1944 by Ian Stanley Ord Playfair Pdf

Søgeord: Gazala; Kasserine; Malta; Monte Cassino

Author : Michael P. Croissant
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806543048

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Bombing Hitler's Hometown by Michael P. Croissant Pdf

A brilliant, groundbreaking slice of military history, this riveting story of white-knuckled action over one of Europe’s most heavily defended targets in the waning days of World War II also tells of the aftermath of the Linz, Austria, bombing—the heart-wrenching tales of survival and recovery, and the toll of warfare on both sides. In April 1945, Linz was one of Nazi Germany’s most vital assets. It was a crucial transportation hub and communications center, with railyards brimming with war materiel destined for the front lines. Linz was also the town Hitler claimed as home and had long intended to remake as the cultural capital of Europe, filling its planned Fuehrermuseum with world-famous art stolen from his conquered territories. Inevitably, Linz was also one of the most heavily defended targets remaining in Europe. The airmen of the Fifteenth Air Force were a mix of seasoned veterans and newcomers. As their mission was unveiled in the predawn hours of April 25th, audible groans and muffled expletives passed many lips. The reality of that mission would prove more brutal than any imagined. In the unheated, unpressurized B‑24 Liberator and B‑17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers, young men battled elements as dangerous as anything the Germans could throw at them. When batteries of German anti‑aircraft guns opened fire, the men flew into a man‑made hell of exploding shrapnel. Aircraft and men fell from the sky as Austrian civilians on the ground also struggled to survive beneath the bombs during the deadly climax of Hitler’s war. Drawing on interviews with dozens of America’s last surviving World War II veterans, as well as previously unpublished sources, Mike Croissant compellingly relates one of the war’s last truly untold stories—a gripping chronicle of warfare, the death of Nazi Germany, and the beginning of the Cold War. It is also a timeless tale of courage and terror, loss and redemption, humanity and savagery.

Author : William Jackson, 3rd,T.P. Gleave
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1845740718

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The Mediterranean and Middle East by William Jackson, 3rd,T.P. Gleave Pdf

The penultimate volume in the eight books of the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War on the war in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres, this work describes the Italian campaign from June to October 1944. This gruelling summer campaign, Operation Dragoon, cleared central Italy of German forces, pushing their Army Group C back on the Gothic Line, which ran across the Italian peninsula from Lucca on the western coast to Pesaro on the Adriatic. But after the Line was breached, the Allied advance bogged down again, despite strenuous attempts in the early autumn to break into the strategically vital Po valley. In the face of continued German resistance, and worsening allied morale, General Alexander in October decided on a second winter in Italy, limiting his objectives to capturing Ravenna and Bologna. He was constrained by the demands of simultaneous campaigns in Normandy and southern France. Meanwhile, as the Germans, hard-pressed on other fronts, began to withdraw from the Greek islands, British forces moved in to fill the vacuum. With three appendices, and 29 maps and diagrams.

Author : Ian Stanley Ord Playfair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015002327495

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The Mediterranean and Middle East: The early successes against Italy (to May 1941) by Ian Stanley Ord Playfair Pdf

Author : Sir William Staff,William Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1847344313

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Mediterranean and Middle East Volume Vi V by Sir William Staff,William Jackson Pdf

Author : Jan S. Playfair,Chartres J. Molony,William Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:165850382

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The Mediterranean and Middle East by Jan S. Playfair,Chartres J. Molony,William Jackson Pdf

Author : Robert S. Ehlers, Jr.
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700620753

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The Mediterranean Air War by Robert S. Ehlers, Jr. Pdf

Without what the Allies learned in the Mediterranean air war in 1942–1944, the Normandy landings—and so, perhaps, the Second World War II—would have ended differently. This is one of many lessons of The Mediterranean Air War, the first one-volume history of the vital role of airpower during the three-year struggle for control of the Mediterranean Basin in World War II—and of its significance for the Allied successes in the war's last two years. Airpower historian Robert S. Ehlers opens his account with an assessment of the pre-war Mediterranean theater, highlighting the ways in which the players' strategic choices, strengths, and shortcomings set the stage for and ultimately shaped the air campaigns over the Middle Sea. Beginning with the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, Ehlers reprises the developing international crisis—initially between Britain and Italy, and finally encompassing France, Germany, the US, other members of the British Commonwealth, and the Balkan countries. He then explores the Mediterranean air war in detail, with close attention to turning points, joint and combined operations, and the campaign's contribution to the larger Allied effort. In particular, his analysis shows how and why the success of Allied airpower in the Mediterranean laid the groundwork for combined-arms victories in the Middle East, the Indian Ocean area, North Africa, and the Atlantic, northwest Europe. Of grand-strategic importance from the days of Ancient Rome to the Great-Power rivalries of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Middle Sea was no less crucial to the Allied forces and their foes. Here, in the successful offensives in North Africa in 1942 and 1943, the US and the British learned to conduct a coalition air and combined-arms war. Here, in Sicily and Italy in 1943 and 1944, the Allies mastered the logistics of providing air support for huge naval landings and opened a vital second aerial front against the Third Reich, bombing critical oil and transportation targets with great effectiveness. The first full examination of the Mediterranean theater in these critical roles—as a strategic and tactical testing ground for the Allies and as a vital theater of operations in its own right—The Mediterranean Air War fills in a long-missing but vital dimension of the history of World War II.

Author : Brian E. Walter
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781636241098

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Blue Water War by Brian E. Walter Pdf

A complete history of naval combat in the Mediterranean and North African campaigns throughout WWII. In the early summer of 1940, the Kingdom of Italy joined with Nazi Germany by challenging Britain for dominance in the Mediterranean region. With France on the verge of collapse and Britain facing imminent invasion, the Italians seized upon a rare opportunity to re-establish control. Heavily outnumbered, the British Mediterranean Fleet and its ground and air forces braced for a long and bloody conflict. Blue Water War tells the story of this epic struggle. The fighting across the Mediterranean and Middle East was waged at differing times against the combined forces of Italy, Germany and Vichy France over a wide area stretching from the coastal waters of Southern Europe to Madagascar and from Africa’s Atlantic coast to the Persian Gulf. Utilizing a variety of weapons including warships, submarines, and aircraft along with sizable merchant fleets, the British and their subsequent American partners maintained vital lines of communication, conducted numerous amphibious landings, interdicted Axis supply activities and eventually eliminated Axis maritime power within the theater. In turn, these actions facilitated multiple Allied victories that helped secure the defeat of the European Axis.

Author : Brigadier C. J. C. Molony
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1783317647

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Mediterranean and Middle East Volume V: The Campaign in Sicily 1943 and the Campaign in Italy, 3rd Sepember 1943 to 31st March 1944. OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN by Brigadier C. J. C. Molony Pdf

The fifth and largest volume of the eight books in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War describing the war in the Mediterranean and Middle East, this narrates the campaigns in Sicily and Italy from July 1943 to March 1944. The Allies, under General Alexander, selected the harsh mountain terrain of Sicily as the site of their return to Europe after being chased from the continent in 1940/41. The July landings were successful and within a month the Germans had evacuated the island. The allies were now faced with the tough prospect of clearing the Germans from the whole Italian peninsula. In September they landed at Salerno, and despite determined counter-attacks, consolidated their beachhead. In October 1943, after the Badoglio Government, which had overthrown Mussolini in July, surrendered, Hitler ordered the occupation and in-depth defence of Italy. This tied down large numbers of German troops, but made for a protracted and bitter winter campaign, characterised by set-piece Allied attacks against a series of strong German defensive positions along the Bernhardt and Gustav Lines and the Sangro, Garigliano and Rapido rivers. In January 1944 the Allies attempted to outflank the Germans and rush to Rome with another seaborne landing at Anzio. Although the landing was successful, German defence was stubborn, solidifying around the monastery of Monte Cassino, which held out against repeated Allied attacks. With 6 appendices, 43 maps and diagrams and 46 photographs.