The Forgotten Front In Northern Italy

Author : Robert H. Schmidt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89059462861

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The Forgotten Front in Northern Italy by Robert H. Schmidt Pdf

A U.S. Army Signal Corps combat photographer, the author spent the winter of 1944-45 documenting the Gothic Line campaign, the Florence to Bologna to Bolzano operation that held in check 20 or so crack German divisions. He focused particularly on the brutal infantry battles in the Apennies, the desperate fighting of the Fifth Army in the Po Valley, and the severe weather and terrain that challenged the Allied troops. His memories and photographs of the operations reveal the harsh fighting and sometimes poignant moments of the men engaged in a battle that was overwhelmed by events at war's end and has been largely forgotten by history.

Author : George H. Cassar
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 185285166X

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The Forgotten Front by George H. Cassar Pdf

With The Forgotten Front, George H. Cassar intends to demonstrate Italy's vital contribution to the Allied effort in the First World War. His account of the war in Italy covers the strategic considerations as well as the actual fighting.

Author : Walter Carl Ladwig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107170773

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The Forgotten Front by Walter Carl Ladwig Pdf

This book explains why the United States' local allies are often as much of an obstacle to success in counterinsurgency as the insurgents themselves.

Author : Richard Doherty
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473842809

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Victory in Italy by Richard Doherty Pdf

While the main focus in early 1945 was on the advance to The Fatherland, 15 Army Group's 5th (US) and 8th (British) Armies were achieving remarkable results in Northern Italy.Superb generalship (Truscott 5th Army and McCreery 8th Army under General

Author : Emilio Lussu
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780847842797

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A Soldier on the Southern Front by Emilio Lussu Pdf

A rediscovered World War I masterpiece—one of the few memoirs about the Italian front—for fans of military history and All Quiet on the Western Front An infantryman’s “harrowing, moving, [and] occasionally comic” account of trench warfare on the alpine front seen in A Farewell to Arms (Times Literary Supplement). Taking its place alongside works by Ernst JŸnger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu’s memoir as an infantryman is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in Italy but virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, it reveals in spare and detached prose the almost farcical side of the war as seen by a Sardinian officer fighting the Austrian army on the Asiago plateau in northeastern Italy—the alpine front so poignantly evoked by Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms. For Lussu, June 1916 to July 1917 was a year of continuous assaults on impregnable trenches, absurd missions concocted by commanders full of patriotic rhetoric and vanity but lacking in tactical skill, and episodes often tragic and sometimes grotesque, where the incompetence of his own side was as dangerous as the attacks waged by the enemy. A rare firsthand account of the Italian front, Lussu’s memoir succeeds in staging a fierce indictment of the futility of war in a dry, often ironic style that sets his tale wholly apart from the Western Front of Remarque and adds an astonishingly modern voice to the literature of the Great War.

Author : Mark Thompson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571250080

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The White War by Mark Thompson Pdf

In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire, hoping to seize its 'lost' territories of Trieste and Tyrol. The result was one of the most hopeless and senseless modern wars - and one that inspired great cruelty and destruction. Nearly three-quarters of a million Italians - and half as many Austro-Hungarian troops - were killed. Most of the deaths occurred on the bare grey hills north of Trieste, and in the snows of the Dolomite Alps. Outsiders who witnessed these battles were awestruck by the difficulty of attacking on such terrain. General Luigi Cadorna, most ruthless of all the Great War commanders, restored the Roman practice of 'decimation', executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled. Italy sank into chaos and, eventually, fascism. Its liberal traditions did not recover for a quarter of a century - some would say they have never recovered. Mark Thompson relates this nearly incredible saga with great skill and pathos. Much more than a history of terrible violence, the book tells the whole story of the war: the nationalist frenzy that led up to it, the decisions that shaped it, the poetry it inspired, its haunting landscapes and political intrigues; the personalities of its statesmen and generals; and also the experience of ordinary soldiers - among them some of modern Italy's greatest writers. A work of epic scale, The White War does full justice to one of the most remarkable untold stories of the First World War.

Author : Charles T. O'Reilly
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0739101951

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Forgotten Battles by Charles T. O'Reilly Pdf

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 : John Boyd Coates (Jr.),Ebbe Curtis Hoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Medicine, Preventive
ISBN : UCAL:$B790802

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Preventive Medicine in World War II: Special fields by John Boyd Coates (Jr.),Ebbe Curtis Hoff Pdf

Author : United States. Army Medical Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Medicine, Preventive
ISBN : UOM:39015037507749

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Preventive Medicine in World War II. by United States. Army Medical Service Pdf

Author : United States. Army Medical Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3725497

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The Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. by United States. Army Medical Service Pdf

Author : United States. Army Medical Department (1968- ). Historical Unit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MSU:31293012152736

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Preventive medicine in World War II. by United States. Army Medical Department (1968- ). Historical Unit Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Medicine, Military
ISBN : UIUC:30112041721587

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Special Fields by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Army Medical Dept
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : NWU:35558002335285

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Preventive Medicine in World War II. by United States. Army Medical Dept Pdf

Author : United States. Army Medical Departmemt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006290121

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Medical Department, United States Army: Preventive Medicine in World War II, V.9: Special Fields by United States. Army Medical Departmemt Pdf

Author : Bradley Lightbody
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134592722

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The Second World War by Bradley Lightbody Pdf

Bradley Lightbody presents a fascinating and accessible history of the Second World War in its global context. Examining the war around general themes from ambition and advance, through expansion and containment, to rout and victory, The Second World War covers all the major theatres and events of the war. From the origins and background to the war to its aftermath and legacy, The Second World War covers: * the pre-war ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan * the outbreak of the war in Poland * the 'Phoney War' * Blitzkrieg, the Fall of France and the Battle of Britain * Pearl Harbour * the war in North Africa and El Alamein * the final solution * D-Day, the liberation of Italy and deliverance from the concentration camps * the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the global ambitions and the global warfare that was the Second World War, making it essential reading for all students of twentieth century world history.