Salerno 1943

Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473817852

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Salerno 1943 by Angus Konstam Pdf

A compelling account of the fierce ten-day battle that led to the end of Mussolini’s rule, with maps and photos. In September 1943, in the first weeks of the Allied campaign to liberate Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force of over 80,000 men was nearly beaten back into the sea by the German defenders in a ferocious ten-day battle at Salerno, south of Naples. This is the story of the tense, bitter struggle around the Salerno beachhead which decided the issue and changed the course of the campaign. For those ten critical days, the fate of Italy hung in the balance. Using documentary records, memoirs, and eyewitness accounts from all sides, Angus Konstam re-creates every stage of the battle at every level as it happened, day by day, hour by hour. His painstakingly researched account offers a fresh perspective on a decisive battle that has been neglected by British and American historians in recent years, and it gives a fascinating insight into the realities of warfare in Europe eighty years ago. Praise for Angus Konstam’s previous books “Wonderful details.” —Publishers Weekly “Riveting.” —History of War "Interesting and exciting . . . thoroughly enjoyable.” —Booklist

Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844155170

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Salerno 1943 by Angus Konstam Pdf

In September 1943, in the first weeks of the Allied campaign to liberate Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force of over 80,000 men was nearly beaten back into the sea by the German defenders in a ferocious ten-day battle at Salerno, south of Naples. This is the story of the tense, bitter struggle around the Salerno beach-head which decided the issue and changed the course of the campaign - for those ten critical days the fate of Italy hung in the balance. Using documentary records, memoirs and eyewitness accounts from all sides, Angus Konstam recreates every stage of the battle at every level as it happened, day by day, hour by hour. His painstakingly researched account offers a fresh perspective on a decisive battle that has been neglected by British and American historians in recent years, and it gives a fascinating insight into the realities of warfare in Europe 60 years ago.

Author : Des Hickey,Gus Smith
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Salerno, Battle of, 1943
ISBN : IND:39000000315296

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Operation Avalanche by Des Hickey,Gus Smith Pdf

Some forty years later, the Allied landings on the Italian coast at Salerno before dawn on September 9, 1943, seem only a part of one of the half-forgotten campaigns of World War II. Yet it was in its day the largest amphibious invasion becoming the Allies' costliest blunder. Codenamed "Avalanche," the operation under U.S. General Mark Clark involved 500 ships and 165,000 American and British servicemen in the hazardous attempt to establish on the mainland of Occupied Europe a beachhead. It was the Allies' misfortune that the beach was ringed by jagged mountains where large concentrations of Hitler's Wehrmacht - the best-organized, best-equipped, most battle-proven army in the world - were securely dug into superb defensive positions. Mark Clark predicted that "Avalanche" would achieve its major objective, the capture of Naples, within three days. It was a bad miscalculation. "Avalanche" lasted for twenty-one desperate days and for a time threatened to become a greater débâcle than Gallipoli or Dunkirk. What went wrong? This book recreates those twenty-one critical days to provide some brutal answers. -- from inside jacket flap.

Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780962511

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Salerno 1943 by Angus Konstam Pdf

In mid-September 1943, as the opening move of the Allied campaign to liberate the mainland of Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force landed on the beaches of the Gulf of Salerno, only a few dozen miles to the south of Naples. Italy had just surrendered, and the soldiers in the landing craft prayed that the invasion would be unopposed. It was not to be. The Germans had seized control of the Italian-built beach defences, and were ready and waiting. The ferocious ten-day battle at Salerno was eventually decided by a combination of Allied reinforcements, and secondary landings in support of the beleaguered Salerno bridgehead. Using documentary records, memoirs and eyewitness accounts from all sides, Angus Konstam recreates the battle day by day, hour by hour. His methodically researched account offers a fresh perspective on a decisive battle that has largely been neglected by British and American historians in recent years.

Author : Angelo Pesce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 8885909620

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Salerno 1943 by Angelo Pesce Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Salerno (Italy), Battle of, 1943
ISBN : UCR:31210023607250

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Salerno, American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturno, 9 September - 6 October 1943 by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. War Department. General Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Salerno (Italy)
ISBN : UCAL:B3042445

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Salerno, American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturno (9 September-6 October 1943) by United States. War Department. General Staff Pdf

Account of the operations of the American forces who landed on the beaches in the Gulf of Salerno.

Author : Rick Atkinson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429920100

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The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy In An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north toward Rome. The Italian campaign's outcome was never certain; in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate about whether an invasion of the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was even a good idea. But once under way, the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered, despite the agonizingly high price. The battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino were particularly difficult and lethal, yet as the months passed, the Allied forces continued to drive the Germans up the Italian peninsula. Led by Lieutenant General Mark Clark, one of the war's most complex and controversial commanders, American officers and soldiers became increasingly determined and proficient. And with the liberation of Rome in June 1944, ultimate victory at last began to seem inevitable. Drawing on a wide array of primary source material, written with great drama and flair, this is narrative history of the first rank. With The Day of Battle, Atkinson has once again given us the definitive account of one of history's most compelling military campaigns.

Author : Anon
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782894551

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Salerno by Anon Pdf

Illustrated with 18 maps and 24 Illustrations EARLY IN SEPTEMBER 1943, British and American armies invaded southern Italy, striking at the heart of a major Axis nation and breaching Hitler’s "Fortress Europe." Behind the invasion lay long months of hard-won Allied victories. The Axis was cleared out of Africa in May, when British and American armies annihilated the German and Italian forces cornered in Tunisia. Sicily, the stepping stone from Africa to Europe, was next conquered in a 38-day battle, and on 17 August the last of its German garrison fled across the Strait of Messina to the Italian mainland. On 3 September the British Eighth Army crossed the Strait in pursuit and drove up the Calabrian Peninsula. Coordinated with the Eighth Army’s attack, Allied landings at Salerno by the United States Fifth Army and at Taranto by the British 1 Airborne Division were made on 9 September. In the Salerno landings, strong American forces were fighting on the continent of Europe for the first time since 1918. Even before the beginnings of the Sicilian operations, the staffs of Allied land, naval, and air forces had been planning an invasion of Italy. Once established on the Italian mainland, we might hope to secure complete naval and aerial domination of the Mediterranean and to obtain strategic ports and airfields for future operations against continental Europe. If we could knock Italy out of the war, we would force the Germans to retreat north of the Alps or to use in Italy armies which might be fighting on the Russian front. Under the command of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, the Fifth Army, a great Allied force composed of the British 10 Corps and the United States VI Corps, carried out the first large scale invasion of the European mainland and secured a firm base for future operations in Italy. Salerno: The American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturno is an account of the American forces who landed on the beaches in the Gulf of Salerno.

Author : U.s. Army Center for Military History
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519215401

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Salerno by U.s. Army Center for Military History Pdf

Under the command of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, the Fifth Army, a great Allied force composed of the British 10 Corps and the United States VI Corps, carried out the first large scale invasion of the European mainland and secured a firm base for future operations in Italy. "Salerno: The American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturno" is an account of the American forces who landed on the beaches in the Gulf of Salerno. The actions of our British allies have been duly recorded by their command. "Salerno: American Operations From the Beaches to the Volturno" (9 September-6 October 1943) is one of a series of fourteen studies of World War II operations originally published by the War Department's Historical Division and now returned to print as part of the Army's commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of that momentous clash of arms. These volumes, prepared by professional historians shortly after the events described, provide a concise summary of some of the major campaigns and battles fought by American soldiers.

Author : David A. Thomas
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473812260

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Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy by David A. Thomas Pdf

An invaluable and up-to-date reference book listing every battle honour awarded to ships of the Royal Navy. Although the honours go back to the Spanish Armada in 1588, surprisingly the system was not officially sanctioned until 1954.

Author : Center of Military History United States Army,Center of Military History United States
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 150842148X

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Salerno by Center of Military History United States Army,Center of Military History United States Pdf

First of the three-volume account of the Allied campaign in Italy from the landings in September 1943 to operations preceding the landings at Anzio and the march on Rome.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCBK:C098769924

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Army History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Salerno, Battle of, Salerno, Italy, 1943
ISBN : LCCN:91601187

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Salerno, American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturno, 9 September - 6 October 1943 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martin Blumenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Anzio (Italy)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009861712

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Salerno to Cassino by Martin Blumenson Pdf

Operations from the invasion of the Italian mainland near Salerno through the winter fighting up to the battles for Monte Cassino (including the Rapido River crossing) and the Anzio beachhead.