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Author : Guido Rosignoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034369665
Gennemgang af operationer, udrustning og uniformer m.v. af den mest kosmopolitiske, allierede styrke, som oprettedes under 2. verdenskrig.
Author : Dominick Graham,Shelford Bidwell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473819931
When the Allies invaded mainland Italy in 1943 they intended only a clearing-up operation to knock Italy out of the war, but Hitler ordered the German armies to defend every foot of the country. The 'Tug of War' was the mysterious force which caused a war to race out of control, and attract vast numbers of men, tanks, guns and aircraft. The book analyses the main battles of Salerno, Cassino, Anzio and the march on Rome.
Author : Guido Rosignoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Italy
ISBN : 0950701211
Author : Bill McAndrew,Canada. Dept. of National Defence,Canada Communication Group. Publishing
Publisher : Art global
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020399361
Using first person accounts the author paints a compelling portrait of the nearly 93,000 Canadians who served in this campaign, more than a quarter of whom became casualties. These men and women faced inhospitable terrain, disease and a skilled enemy in a theater, which was largely overshadowed by D-Day. The battles fought by Canadian units fill their regimental colors with battle honors serving in this almost forgotten campaign that they derisively labeled "The Spaghetti League." With their bravery and perseverance, these D-Day Dodgers accomplished all that was asked of them, and wrote an honorable page in Canada's military history.
Author : Simon Forty
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526766212
A pictorial history of Allied forces making their way through Italy in the final years of World War II, featuring rare photos from wartime archives. The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of World War II, splitting the American and British allies, and causing great disharmony. After the fall of Rome and the surrender of Italy, the invasion of Normandy led to the Italian campaign becoming a sideshow as the “D-Day Dodgers” fought their way through Italy to the Alps against a grinding defense and extreme weather. In a sequence of 200 wartime photographs Simon Forty sums up the major events of the conflict—from the landings on Sicily to the crossing of the Po. Commanded first by Sir Harold Alexander and then Mark Clark, the Allied armies (U.S. Fifth and British Eighth) drew men not only from Britain, the United States, France, and Poland, but also from all over the Commonwealth—from Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa—as well as such other countries as Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Greece, and Palestine. The devastation caused by the war in the cities, towns, and countryside is part of the story, but perhaps the most powerful impression is made by the faces of the soldiers themselves as they look out from the Italian front of so long ago. “Another addition to the very popular Images of War series, with a mass of outstanding and rare images. The author covers campaigns in Sicily and Italy as the Allies slogged their way north, using amphibious and airborne assault to bypass the German lines—Very Highly Recommended.” —Firetrench
Author : Charles T. O'Reilly
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0739101951
Italy's War of Liberation takes issue with the apparently prevalent attitude among Allied commanders during World War II that the Italian military was ineffective. O'Reilly recounts the little-known story of the significant contribution made by the Italian military during the Italian Campaign, including the contribution of relatively unacknowledged Italian Partisan formations that fought in Italy, France, Yugoslavia, and Greece. Despite the fact that Italians fought on the front lines with the British and American soldiers, and despite the service of the Italian Navy and Air Force, the Allies refused repeated Italian pleas for more involvement in combat. This book not only attempts to correct the record of military history by illustrating the ways in which the Italians were underutilized by the Allies, but it also serves to paint a fair portrait of the Italian military's substantial efforts to defeat Hitler and eradicate Fascism.
Author : Charles Reginald Schiller Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Italy
ISBN : UOM:39015013117836
Author : Ian Blackwell
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783032440
A history of the Allied coalition in Italy during World War II. The US Fifth Army first saw action during the Salerno Landings in September 1943. While commanded by US Lieutenant General Mark Clark, from the outset one of its two Corps was the X (British) Corps; the other V1 (US) Corps. The multi-national composition of Fifth Army is demonstrated by the French Expeditionary Corps, the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, the South African Armoured Division, the Italian Co-Belligerent forces, formations from the New Zealand Corps and the 4th Indian Division. Clark’s Fifth Army was itself part of the Fifteenth Army Group, commanded by Field Marshal Alexander. Alexander’s light and diplomatic touch oiled the wheels of this uneasy arrangement but inevitably there were tensions and disagreements that threatened success. The low priority accorded to Italy as compared with OVERLORD and NW Europe did not help matters. Seen as a backwater, crack units were taken away and insufficient resources allocated to the Italian Campaign. This combined with the tenacity of the Germans, the difficult terrain and the harsh climate caused real problems. Allied morale was at times particularly brittle and desertion rates worryingly high. This superbly researched book objectively examines the performance of Fifth Army against this complex and troublesome backdrop. The author’s findings make for authoritative and fascinating reading and give food for thought about multinational cooperation in more recent conflicts.
Author : Eric Morris
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cassino, Battle of, Cassino, Italy, 1944
ISBN : IND:30000039073295
Author : Marshal Pietro Badoglio
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786257413
Marshal Pietro Badolgio was involved in the highest levels of the Italian political hierarchy ever since his early successes in the First World War, for which he was promoted General. He was head of the Italian Armed Forces from 1925 to 1940, and did his best to raise the military to a level that might match the expansionist views of Mussolini. He presided over the brutal invasion of Ethiopia, but nationally he acted as a counter-balance to Mussolini’s pre-World War II schemes. Unable to stop the inevitable disaster following the Italian-German Pact of Steel and the onset of war, he resigned as Chief Of Staff after the humiliating reverses of the Italian invasion of Greece. He was brought back into the political spotlight in 1943, after the fall of Mussolini, and was named Prime Minister of Italy during the turbulent months of their volte face change of sides. His position was unenviable, caught between the Italian people who cried out for peace and the Allied powers who pursued German defeat in Italy by armed force. In this fascinating book he recounts his memories and recollections of Italy during the Second World War, particularly focussed on his attempts to hold the country together in 1943 and 1944.
Author : Malcolm Tudor
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This is the story of Britain's elite special force in Italy during the Second World War. In the summer of 1943 the SAS came out of Africa to carry the fight to the Germans and Fascists in Sicily and the mainland. On the Italian Armistice and Surrender in September 1943 the originator of the SAS, Scots Guards lieutenant David Stirling, was a prisoner at the high-security prisoner of war camp five at Gavi in Piedmont, north-western Italy, after being captured in January in Tunisia. He eventually ended up as a prisoner at Colditz Castle in Germany, but his work continued. The idea of small groups of parachute-trained soldiers operating behind enemy lines to gain intelligence, destroy enemy aircraft, and attack their supply and reinforcement routes, was realised in the many daring missions carried out in Italy by the men of 2nd SAS Regiment and the Special Raiding Squadron. The famous SAS motto of 'Who dares wins, ' was swiftly translated into the Italian 'Chi osa vince.' This book reveals how words were turned into deeds.
Author : Kenneth E. Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OSU:32435009242553
Author : Daniel George Dancocks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015029096974
Author : Rick Atkinson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429920100
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 : Edwin P. Hoyt
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 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.