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Author : Spellmount Ltd. Publishers Staff
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0785567739
Author : Maurice Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:21412962
Author : Denis Richards
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782893417
Includes, 21 maps/diagrams and 17 Illustrations/photos The Royal Air Force is the oldest independent air force in the world, having gained its spurs over the trenches of Flanders in the First World War it was officially established in 1918. However it was during the Second World War that it would achieve its greatest successes yet, from an inauspicious start following post war budget cuts it would rise to become a decisive factor in the campaign to remove the Nazis from Europe and the Japanese from mainland Asia. The three volume Official History gives a sound and broad narrative of all of the campaigns, actions and engagements that the Royal Air Force was party to across Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia. The text was set out in manageable chapters, each dealing with a particular episode of the struggle against Fascism; and is written in an easy and accessible style free from the specialised vocabulary of flying or aerial combat. The first volume covers the period - 1939-1942; including The Initial Phoney War period. The Norway Expedition The Battle of France The Battle of Britain The Blitz The opening stages of the Battle of the Atlantic The opening stages of the North African Campaign.
Author : Denis Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015041861694
Author : A. R. B. Linderman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806155180
Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE), which conducted sabotage campaigns and supported resistance movements in Axis-occupied Europe and in Asia, is often described as Winston Churchill’s brainchild. But as A. R. B. Linderman reveals in this engrossing history, the real genius behind Britain’s clandestine warriors was Colin Gubbins, a British officer who forged the SOE by drawing on lessons learned in irregular conflicts around the world. Following Gubbins through operations he studied and participated in, Linderman maps the evolution of the SOE from its origins to its doctrine to its becoming a critical institution. Part biography, part intellectual and organizational history, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare is the first book to explore the origins of a substantial force in the Allies’ victory in World War II. Although popular history holds that Britain entered World War II with no prior knowledge of or experience with underground warfare, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare tells us otherwise. Linderman finds ample precedent in the clearly documented work of Gubbins and his fellow clandestine organizers. He traces Gubbins’s career from 1914 through World War I and such irregular conflicts as the Allied intervention in Russia, the Irish Revolution, and conflicts in British India. To these firsthand experiences, Gubbins added the insights of colleagues who had served with him and in Iraq, as well as what he learned from the Second Anglo-Boer War, the Arab Revolt led by T. E. Lawrence, the German guerrilla war in East Africa, the revolt in Palestine between the world wars, the Spanish Civil War, and the Second Sino-Japanese War. The two booklets that Gubbins wrote based on his accumulated knowledge offered the first synthesis of British unconventional warfare doctrine: practical guides that emphasized the centrality of local populations; the collection, protection, and use of intelligence; the necessity of cooperating with conventional forces; and the use of speed, surprise, and escape in ambush operations. In 1940, when Gubbins joined the newly created SOE, the experience and know-how codified in his guides formed the basis of Britain’s approach to irregular warfare. The history of the SOE’s doctrinal origins is Colin Gubbins’s story. By telling that story, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare amplifies and clarifies our understanding of the Second World War—and of doctrines of unconventional warfare in the twentieth century.
Author : Adam R. A. Claasen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050705147
Adolf Hitler had high hopes for his conquest of Norway, which held both great symbolic and great strategic value for the Fuhrer. Despite early successes, however, his ambitious northern campaign foundered and ultimately failed. Adam Claasen for the first time reveals the full story of this neglected episode and shows how it helped doom the Third Reich to defeat. Hitler and Raeder, the chief of the German navy, were determined to take and keep Norway. By doing so, they hoped to preempt Allied attempts to outflank Germany, protect sea lanes for German ships, access precious Scandinavian minerals for war production, and provide a launchpad for Luftwaffe and naval operations against Great Britain. Beyond those strategic objectives, Hitler also envisioned Norway as part of a pan-Nordic stronghold—a centerpiece of his new world order. But, as Claasen shows, Hitler's grand expectations were never realized. Gring's Luftwaffe was the vital spearhead in the invasion of Norway, which marked a number of wartime firsts. Among other things, it involved the first large-scale aerial operations over sea rather than land, the first time operational objectives and logistical needs were fulfilled by air power, and the first deployment of paratroopers. Although it got off to a promising start, the German effort, particularly against British and arctic convoys, was greatly hampered by flawed strategic thinking, interservice rivalries between the Luftwaffe and navy, the failure to develop a long-range heavy bomber, the diversion of planes and personnel to shore up the German war effort elsewhere, and the northern theater's harsh climate and terrain. Claasen's study covers every aspect of this ill-fated campaign from the 1940 invasion until war's end and shows how it was eventually relegated to a backwater status as Germany fought to survive in an increasingly unwinnable war. His compelling account sharpens our picture of the German air force and widens our understanding of the Third Reich's way of war.
Author : Maurice Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 184884431X
In April 1940, an uneasy pause, following the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939, settled over Europe. All the major protagonists were insufficiently prepared to engage in a major land battle on the Western Front during the winter of 1939/40, the RAF was unready to launch a strategic offensive on Germany and it was only at sea that the conflict was pursued with any conviction. Goaded by Winston Churchill, the Allies contemplated severing the supply route of iron ore from Sweden to Germany via Narvik but, for six months, the governments in London and Paris debated incessantly but did nothing. The government in Oslo, clinging to Norway's neutralist principles, watched and waited. In the early hours of 9 April 1940, Hitler emphatically answered the question of where the war was to be fought, launching a sea and air attack on Norway and Denmark. The Allies responded promptly, but although their intervention was ill prepared and inadequately supported, it was studded with fierce military actions and individual acts of valour and fortitude. The author carefully sets the scene in all the countries directly involved in the conflict before describing the invasion itself and the two dramatic raids on Narvik. The description of the main land battle is followed by an analysis of the lessons to be learned from this calamitous episode in the Allied war effort including showing how thee naval losses the Germans suffered ensured Britain was safe from invasion and made the evacuation from Dunkirk possible.
Author : C. Mann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137284358
After the German occupation of 1940, Britain was forced to reassess its relationship with Norway, a country largely on the periphery of the main theatres of the Second World War. Christopher Mann examines British military policy towards Norway, concentrating on the commando raids, deception planning and naval operations.
Author : Chris Mann,Christer Jrgensen
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473884564
In the past the German General Staff had taken no interest in the military history of wars in the north and east of Europe. Nobody had ever taken into account the possibility that some day German divisions would have to fight and to winter in northern Karelia and on the Murmansk coast. (Lieutenant-General Waldemar Erfurth, German Army). Despite this statement, the German Armys first campaign in the far north was a great success: between April and June 1940 German forces totaling less than 20,000 men seized Norway, a state of three million people, for minimal losses. Hitlers Arctic War is a study of the campaign waged by the Germans on the northern periphery of Europe between 1940 and 1945. As Hitlers Arctic War makes clear, the emphasis was on small-unit actions, with soldiers carrying everything they needed food, ammunition and medical supplies on their backs. The terrain placed limitations on the use of tanks and heavy artillery, while lack of airfields restricted the employment of aircraft. Hitlers Arctic War also includes a chapter on the campaign fought by Luftwaffe aircraft and Kriegsmarine ships and submarines against the Allied convoys supplying the Soviet Union with aid. However, Wehrmacht resources committed to Norway and Finland were ultimately an unnecessary drain on the German war effort. Hitlers Arctic War is a groundbreaking study of how war was waged in the far north and its effects on German strategy.
Author : Henrik O. Lunde
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781932033922
En grundig gennemgang af en af historiens revolutionerende kampagner, kampagnen mod Norge.
Author : Jack Greene,Alessandro Massignani
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783469772
A detailed account of Germany’s groundbreaking Operation Weserübung, the first three dimensional—land, sea, air—strategic invasion in history. The German invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 brought a sudden and shocking end to the “Phoney War” in the West. In a single day, multiple seaborne and airborne landings established German forces ashore in Norway, overwhelming the unprepared Norwegian forces and catching the Allied Powers completely by surprise. Their belated response was ill-thought-out and badly organized, and by June 9 all resistance had formally ended. The strategic importance of Scandinavian iron ore, shipped through the port of Narvik to Germany, was the main cause of the campaign. The authors show how Allied attempts to interdict these supplies provoked German plans to secure them, and also how political developments in the inter-war years resulted in both Denmark and Norway being unable to deter threats to their neutrality despite having done so successfully in the First World War. The German attack was their first “joint” air, sea, and land operation, making large-scale use of air-landing and parachute forces, and the Luftwaffe’s control of the air throughout the campaign would prove decisive. Although costly, particularly for the Kriegsmarine, it was a triumph of good planning, improvisation and aggressive, determined action by the troops on the ground. Making full use of Norwegian, Danish, and German sources, this book is a full and fascinating account of this highly significant campaign and its aftermath both for the course of the Second World War and the post-war history of the two countries conquered with such unprecedented speed.
Author : John Kiszely
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107194595
Senior military commander assesses the reasons behind the ignominious failure of the British campaign in Norway in 1940.
Author : David T. Zabecki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1550 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135812423
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : J. Levy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230511569
This book marks the first comprehensive history of Britain's naval bulwark, the Home Fleet. It illuminates the vital role that fleet played in preserving Britain as a base of operations against Hitler. We see portrayed the hard days of blockade, patrol, and battle that encompassed the Home Fleet's war. And we see how that war was made harder by weaknesses at the Admiralty and by the damaging interference of the Minister of Defence - Winston Churchill.
Author : Williamson Murray,Allan Reed Millett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674041301
Chronicles the military operations and tactics of World War II in both the European and Pacific theaters from the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the surrender of Japan in 1945.
