Narvik And The Norwegian Campaign 1940 Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives

Author : Philip Jowett
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1526796546

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Narvik and the Norwegian Campaign 1940: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Philip Jowett Pdf

The Norwegian campaign, fought in 1940, early in the Second World War in Europe, is overshadowed by the campaign in Poland that preceded it and the German blitzkrieg in the Low Countries and France that followed, yet it was a close contest from the military point of view and it had a far-reaching impact on the rest of the war. Philip Jowett's photographic history is a vivid introduction to it.In a concise text and a selection of over 150 photographs he traces the entire course of the fighting in Norway on land, at sea and in the air. He describes how important it was for the Allies - the Norwegians, British and French - to defend northern Norway against the Germans, in particular to retain control of the strategic port of Narvik.The book documents in fascinating detail the troops involved, the aircraft and the large naval forces, and gives an insight into the main episodes in the conflict including the struggle for Narvik and the major clashes at sea which culminated in the loss of the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier Glorious.The photographs are especially valuable in that they show the harsh conditions in which the fighting took place and offer us a direct impression of the experience of the men who were there.

Author : Philip Jowett
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526796554

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Narvik and the Norwegian Campaign 1940 by Philip Jowett Pdf

The Norwegian campaign, fought in 1940, early in the Second World War in Europe, is overshadowed by the campaign in Poland that preceded it and the German blitzkrieg in the Low Countries and France that followed, yet it was a close contest from the military point of view and it had a far-reaching impact on the rest of the war. Philip Jowett’s photographic history is a vivid introduction to it. In a concise text and a selection of over 150 photographs he traces the entire course of the fighting in Norway on land, at sea and in the air. He describes how important it was for the Allies – the Norwegians, British and French – to defend northern Norway against the Germans, in particular to retain control of the strategic port of Narvik. The book documents in fascinating detail the troops involved, the aircraft and the large naval forces, and gives an insight into the main episodes in the conflict including the struggle for Narvik and the major clashes at sea which culminated in the loss of the Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier Glorious. The photographs are especially valuable in that they show the harsh conditions in which the fighting took place and offer us a direct impression of the experience of the men who were there.

Author : Philip Jowett
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399073141

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The Italian Campaign, 1943–1945 by Philip Jowett Pdf

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.

Author : Jon Diamond
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399072083

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The Three Battles of El Alamein by Jon Diamond Pdf

The 80th Anniversary of the historic final Battle of El Alamein is the ideal time to study the events leading up to General Bernard Montgomery’s famous victory over Field Marshal Rommel’s Panzerarmee Africa in Autumn 1942. Four months earlier after the loss of Tobruk , Rommel’s forces were in the ascendancy. Prime Minister Winston Churchill removed General Auchinleck from Command of Eighth Army and appointed Bernard Montgomery in his place. After the successful defense of Alam El Halfa Ridge in late August and early September ended Rommel’s inexorable advance, Montgomery set in train plans for the set piece offensive campaign at El Alamein which took place between 23 October and 4 November 1942. The stakes could not have been higher. Had Rommel broken through the Allied defenses in Summer 1942 or Montgomery’s forces not overwhelmed the German and Italian armies at El Alamein, Egypt and the Suez Canal would have fallen to the Nazis. Instead, the victory at El Alamein proved to be the turning point of the War against Hitler and led to the victory in North Africa

Author : David Greentree
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472849113

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Narvik 1940 by David Greentree Pdf

In early 1940, a battle raged to control the ice-free, iron-ore port in northern Norway – with changing fortunes until the very end. This highly detailed book covers both the naval battles and the individual Norwegian, British, Polish, French and German units that fought the land campaign over northern Norway. Highly detailed maps guide you step by step through the events. Few other books on Narvik give you as much detail on the forces of the fighting five. From Gebirgsjägers to Guardsmen, Fallschirmjägers to Foreign Legionnaires, it offers you an impressive level of tactical detail, even down to company command, whilst also helping you understand the strategic confusion surrounding the whole Allied expedition to the north too. Among the naval clashes covered in this action-packed story are the destroyer battles in the fjords, the sinking of the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and the roles the famous battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau played in the fighting. No less dramatic are the land battles, which include amphibious landings, sabotage, commando raids, daring ski missions and a rare parachute insertion by Gebirgsjäger troops.

Author : Jack Adams
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Norway
ISBN : 0749302828

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The Doomed Expedition by Jack Adams Pdf

Author : Harry Plevy
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Norway 1940 by Harry Plevy Pdf

A comprehensive, chronologically arranged account of the two-month campaignEmbraces viewpoints of all the combatants: British, French, German, Norwegian and PolishMany first-hand accounts, previously unpublished or not in general circulation Ostensibly fought for control of Swedish iron ore to Germany, the Norwegian campaign made an important but largely overlooked contribution to the conduct of the Second World War. It convincingly proved the supremacy of air power in modern warfare and, particularly, the vulnerability of land and sea forces to sustained undefended air assault. It was the first conflict in which one side, the Germans, used all three arms of their forces in integrated combined assault – Blitzkreig – and in which parachute and glider-borne troops were used to secure airfields and strategic targets. In contrast, the Allies tried to conduct the campaign on land, with an overreliance on infantrymen and inadequate air support. Norway 1940: Chronicle of a Chaotic Campaign deals with the strategic and political imperatives in an integrated and comprehensive manner, as well as operations, in a complex and rapidly changing two-month campaign. While other books on the campaign have tended to focus on a limited perspective, such as naval operations or the higher levels of political decision-making with no combatant or personal perspective, this book makes much use of many previously unpublished contemporary writings and eyewitness accounts of the people involved in the Norwegian campaign. 32 black-and-white photographs

Author : Major Michael W. Richardson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786250780

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Forcible Entry And The German Invasion Of Norway, 1940 by Major Michael W. Richardson Pdf

The air-sea-land forcible entry of Norway in 1940 utilized German operational innovation and boldness to secure victory. The Germans clearly met, and understood, the conditions that were necessary to achieve victory. The central research question of this thesis is: What lessons concerning setting the conditions for present day forcible entry operations can be gleaned from the successful German invasion of Norway in 1940? Forcible entry is the introduction of an aggregation of military personnel, weapons systems, vehicles, and necessary support, or a combination thereof, embarked for the purpose of gaining access through land, air, or amphibious operations into an objective area against resistance. This aggregation of military force attempts to set conditions that cripple the enemy’s ability to react decisively to, or interfere with, the forcible entry operation. The German emphasis on surprise and speed, an effective psychological campaign, and combined operations under a unified command in the invasion of Norway rendered the Norwegian and Allied intervention forces (including the Royal Navy which dominated the seas in the area) incapable of seriously interfering with the German forcible entry.

Author : Evan McGilvray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Narvik, Battle of, Narvik, Norway, 1940
ISBN : 1911512285

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Narvik and the Allies by Evan McGilvray Pdf

This work is about the co-operation between the Allies in Norway between April and June 1940 by initially considering the military-politics of the period August 1939 until the German invasion of Norway in April 1940. Much of the work examines the role of the Independent Podhalian Rifle Brigade and its interaction and dependency on the Allies as the Polish troops found themselves under French command. Other aspects of the Norwegian Campaign are also explored including inter-service co-operation amongst the Allies, how the Western Allies were still uncertain who their enemy really was and how successful Narvik actually was and what it meant for the UK during the summer of 1940.

Author : Geirr H. Haarr
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000123133922

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The German Invasion of Norway by Geirr H. Haarr Pdf

This major new history documents the German invasion of Norway, focusing on the events at sea. The first operation in which the air force, army, and navy worked closely together, Operation Weserübung included the first dive-bomber attack to sink a major warship and the first carrier task-force operations. Based on primary sources from British, German, and Norwegian archives, the book gives a balanced account of the reasons behind the invasion and showcases an unrivalled collection of photographs. As the definitive study of Germany's first and last major seaborne invasion, it offers a close look at an important but often neglected aspect of World War II.

Author : Geirr H. Haarr
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Norway
ISBN : 159114051X

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The Battle for Norway by Geirr H. Haarr Pdf

This is the second volume of Geirr Haarr's monumental and unsurpassed account of the events at sea during the German invasion of Norway in 1940. The early part of the book covers the operations off southern and western Norway where Noewegian and British forces attempted to that the German advance out of the invasion ports and the stream of supplies and reinforcements across the Skagerrak. The second part focuses on the British landings in central Norway where the Royal for the first time had its mastery challenged by air superiority from land-based aircraft. The author then covers the events in and around Narvik where Norwegian, British, French and Polish naval, air and land forces were engaged in the first allied combined amphibious landings of World War II. Finally, the author focuses on the events during the allied evacuation in June, in which the first carrier task force operations of the War, including the loss of the carries Glorious, figure prominently. As in the first volume, the narratives shifts continuously between the strategic and operational issues and the experiences of the officers and ratings living through the events, while extensive research has revealed aspects of the war that remain controversial to this day. Book jacket.

Author : James Louis Moulton
Publisher : London : Eyre & Spottiswoode
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015011318527

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The Norwegian Campaign of 1940 by James Louis Moulton Pdf

Emne: De Allierede, strategi - Invasion, tyske Hær - Atlanterhavet, norske fjorde, engelske flåde, britiske flåde, tyske flåde, flådeenheder, kamphandlinger - Norske hær, forsvarskamp Gudbrandsdalen, Invasion i Narvik, britiske hær og flåde - Evakuering, britiske hær

Author : GERHARD. NELSON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0244960658

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For Hitler to Narvik by GERHARD. NELSON Pdf

Since 1941 again on the market available! Now in your language, too! When the German Wehrmacht landed on April 9, 1940 in Denmark and Norway, and then occupied the vast Norwegian territory in constant battles over the following weeks, to the fighting forces of the three Wehrmacht units were also assigned men of the PK (propaganda company), which kept the landing, advance, fight and victory in words and pictures. Their reports to the home country have already given a vivid picture of the harshness and peculiar nature of the struggles and the achievements and successes of the deployed associations of all three Wehrmacht units during the Norwegian campaign. Especially the image reporters were called to capture for the future the campaign in its individual phases from the landing to the capitulation of the opponent. A selection of content-rich and exciting recordings of the PK unites are present in this illustrated book. The new edition has been extended by 32 pages with pictures from this period.

Author : Thomas Kingston Derry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1870423968

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Campaign in Norway by Thomas Kingston Derry Pdf

Author : Jonathan Sutherland,Diane Canwell
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000127032773

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Blitzkrieg Poland by Jonathan Sutherland,Diane Canwell Pdf

These photographs are taken from three unpublished albums featuring the German invasion of Poland in 1939. One set was taken by an SS officer, another by a regular officer and a third by a soldier attached to a medical unit. Included are German units on the move, tanks, artillery and aircraft.