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Author : Barton Maughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : El Alamein, Battle of, Egypt, 1942
ISBN : OCLC:671716285
Author : Barton Maughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : El Alamein, Battle of, Egypt, 1942
ISBN : OCLC:1031033465
Author : David Coombes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015055094554
Lieutenant-General Sir Leslie Morshead was one of Australia's greatest soldiers. Drawing on previously inaccessible private records and recent scholarship, David Coombes provides a candid account of this famous field commander and shows why Morshead's distinguished career fits into Australia's military tradition.
Author : Pier Paolo Battistelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472800411
In 1940 a British offensive in the Western Desert provoked a major Italian military disaster. By early February 1941 the whole of Cyrenaica had been lost, and German help became necessary to avoid the loss of all of Libya. On 14 February 1941 the first echelons of German troops hurriedly arrived at the port of Tripoli, starting the 27-month German engagement in Northern Africa. This book covers the complex and oft-changing organisation and structure of German forces in North Africa from their first deployment through to the conclusion of the battle of El Alamein, an engagement that irrevocably changed the strategic situation in the Western Desert.
Author : John G. Glenn,Paul Oaten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0646590278
This is the most stirring book to arise from the Second World War. The most highly decorated unit of the Second A.I.F. was in action in so many campaigns that a great deal of the drama of the conflict as experienced by Australian soldiers is encompassed on one volume.
Author : Zahos Hadjifotiou
Publisher : Stergiou Limited
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781910370834
The Middle East Affairs recounts Zahos' adventures in legendary events of WWII (siege of Tobruk, battles of El Alamein and Rimini), with all its tragedy and specific details, exactly as they were experienced by the writer. All stories are true and based on the author’s experiences, not based on descriptions as are used by many war historian authors. At the same time, it is a vivid depiction of the cosmopolitan and aristocratic urban environments of Alexandria, Cairo, and Beirut during those turbulent years when death was highly probable and people tried to enjoy life to the fullest. His adventures narrated in this book began in 1941 when 17-year-old Zahos decided to leave occupied Greece in order to fight the Germans in the Middle East. He joined the British Army and helped defend Tobruk against the Axis forces led by the legendary General Rommel during its eight-month siege. Zahos Hadjifotiou is a remarkable and fearless individual who lived life to the fullest, fighting in battles as fiercely as he loved, partied, and enjoyed life. Zahos is a Greek best-selling author who met success from his first book. He has written dozens of books, many of them translated into foreign languages. All his books are best sellers.
Author : Zahos Hadjifotiou
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534906371
Zahos Hadjifotiou is a Greek best-selling author who met success from his first book. He has written dozens of books, many of them translated into foreign languages. All his books are best sellers. The Middle East Affairs recounts Zahos' adventures in legendary events of WWII (siege of Tobruk, battles of El Alamein and Rimini), with all its tragedy and specific details, exactly as they were experienced by the writer. All stories are true and based on the author's experiences, not based on descriptions as are used by many war historian authors. At the same time, it is a vivid depiction of the cosmopolitan and aristocratic urban environments of Alexandria, Cairo, and Beirut during those turbulent years when death was highly probable and people tried to enjoy life to the fullest. Zahos Hadjifotiou is a remarkable and fearless individual who lived life to the fullest, fighting in battles as fiercely as he loved, partied, and enjoyed life. His adventures narrated in this book began in 1941 when 17-year-old Zahos decided to leave occupied Greece in order to fight the Germans in the Middle East. He joined the British Army and helped defend Tobruk against the Axis forces led by the legendary General Rommel during its eight-month siege. Having survived Tobruk, he spent a short amount of time in the cosmopolitan cities of Alexandria and Cairo, where he frequented the trendiest nightclubs and restaurants. He recounts his intense love affair with a gorgeous singer named Yuki, an affair that ended abruptly due to a misunderstanding concerning his military obligations that resulted in his arrest. Following his detention, he was transported to Palestine where he was set free. Meanwhile, Tobruk had fallen to Rommel; the Germans were advancing swiftly. Zahos spent the next ten months in the desert, starting with the decisive battle of El Alamein, and then marching a deliberation trek in the desert toward El Aghelia, near the border of Tunisia. The end of this journey found him in Beirut, Lebanon, which at the time was under the French mandate. There, he became a distinguished member of a notorious five gentlemen "rat pack." As the prospect of death in war was highly probable, the rat pack lived life to the fullest and engaged in a period of debauchery. Zahos ended up seducing Simone, the daughter of the all-powerful French governor of Syria and Lebanon, who caught them in the act. They finally got married despite her parents' justified objections (as for his part, the reason for the marriage was more of a flattered vanity rather than love). Quickly bored with the domestic life, Zahos escaped Simone and Lebanon at the first opportunity presented, which was the departure of his unit for Italy. Zahos spend eight months in Italy, mostly marching and fighting against the Germans (including the decisive battle of Rimini). After the German defeat, and as the trust between the Greek Army and the Italian people was gradually restored (at this time, the Italians had come to think of the Greek Army as its liberators from the Germans), he engaged again in an intense love affair with a signorina of astounding beauty, Gabriella. A series of colorful adventures, equally, were shared among military duty and dolce vita, followed. Zahos, finally, returned to Athens, Greece, with his unit in December 1944; he was tired after fighting abroad for such a long time. He had spent four years at war and always at the front. He received multiple decorations and medals for his courage on the battlefield. In 1946, he concluded his military service. After settling down in Athens and resuming his usual habits of working, partying, and establishing a new "rat pack," he was eventually located by his French wife, Simone, who moved in with him. As he and his friends were figuring out how to get rid of Simone, he finally encountered his love, Yuki, singing at a fashionable nightclub. The book ended with Zahos fleeing with Yuki to Italy where they spent the summer.
Author : Barton Maughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1783310065
This volume's main theme is the 9th Australian Division's contribution in 1941-42 to the defeat in North Africa of the German and Italian Army commanded by Field Marshal Rommel.In March 1941, soon after its formation, the division was sent untrained and without its artillery to Cyrenaica as part of a garrison force which, within a few weeks, took the brunt of a surprise advance by Rommel's newly-arrived armoured force. Retreaing to Tobruk the division withstood, with the support of British armoured, artillery and machine-gun units, several assaults and a long siege, and maintained a threat on the flank of Rommel's long line of communications to the Egyptian frontier.Before the siege ended the division was withdrawn by sea but in the succeeding year it was recalled to the front as Rommel's forces were approaching the El Alamein defences, only 70 miles from Alexandria. In General Auchinleck's counter-offensive in July 1942 it captured the Tel el Eisa ridges and other important positions near the coast and later under General Montgomery took a leading part in Rommel's defeat in the battle of El Alamein.As well as recording the exploits of Australian soldiers, the book examines the actions of the generals who successively commanded the Middle East Forces and the Eighth Army - Wavell, Auchinleck, Cunningham, Ritchie, Alexander and Montgomery. The inter-governmental differences concerning the 9th Division's withdrawal from Tobruk and its later return to Australia are also related.An appendix recounts the experiences of Australian prisoners of war in Europe.
Author : Pier Paolo Battistelli
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1841769010
In 1940 a British offensive in the Western Desert provoked a major Italian military disaster. By early February 1941 the whole of Cyrenaica had been lost, and German help became necessary to avoid the loss of the entire of Libya. On 14 February 1941 the first echelons of German troops hurriedly arrived at the port of Tripoli, starting the 27-month German engagement in Northern Africa. This book covers the complex and oft-changing organisation and structure of German forces in North Africa from their first deployment through to the conclusion of the battle of El Alamein, an engagement that irrevocably changed the strategic situation in the Western Desert.
Author : Niall Barr
Publisher : Random House
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446413708
In late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back towards the tiny railway halt of El Alamein in the western desert of Egypt. Tobruk had fallen and Eighth Army had suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Rommel's Panzerarmee Afrika. Yet just five months later, the famous bombardment opened the Eighth Army's own offensive which destroyed the Axis threat to Egypt. Explanations for the remarkable change of fortune have generally been sought in the abrasive personality of the new army commander Lieutenant-General Bernard Law Montgomery. But the long running controversies surrounding the commanders of Eighth Army - Generals Auchinleck and Montgomery - and that of their legendary opponent, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, have often been allowed to obscure the true nature of the Alamein campaign. Pendulum of War provides a vivid and fresh perspective on the fighting at El Alamein from the early desperate days of July to the final costly victory in November.
Author : George Bradford
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461751571
Portrait of this famous World War II unit at the height of its success Completely illustrated with photos, maps, and diagrams--in color where available In the sands of the Western Desert in 1941-42, Erwin Rommel made history as the Desert Fox, waging a brilliant and bold campaign against the British. Beginning at El Agheila in March 1941, the Afrika Korps--frequently outnumbered--drove the British steadily east across Libya and into Egypt. The German offensive eventually ground to a halt in a series of battles at El Alamein. In impressive detail, George Bradford depicts what it was like to serve and fight in the Afrika Korps, from its tanks and equipment to its battles and daily life.
Author : Simon Ball
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191504631
El Alamein was one of the pivotal battles of the Second World War, fought by armies and air forces on the cutting edge of military technology. Yet Alamein has always had a patchy reputation - with many commentators willing to knock its importance. This book explains just why El Alamein is such a controversial battle. Based on an intensive reading of the contemporary sources, in particular the extensive and recently declassified British bugging of Axis prisoners of war, military historian Simon Ball turns Alamein on its head, explaining it as a cultural defeat for Britain. Alamein is a military history of the battle - showing how different it looks stripped of later cultural excrescences. But it also shows how 'Alamein culture' saturated the post-war world, when archival sources mingled with film, novels, magazines, popular histories, and the rest of Alamein's footprint. Whether you are interested in the battle itself or its cultural afterlife, if you have an opinion about Alamein, you'll question it after reading this book.
Author : Peter Dornan
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1741760437
'Where was the rest of the Company? Why was no one else firing? Herb turned to look, and before him saw the shocking truth. He was alone. No one was following . . . there was no one left to follow. He was the last man standing.'The Battle of El Alamein was one of the turning points of the Second World War. Churchill later reflected, 'It might be said that before El Alamein we never had a victory; after El Alamein we never had a defeat.'The Australian 9th Division played a major part in the victory at El Alamein and was given high praise from Montgomery, Churchill and even Rommel, who said, 'I could have won North Africa with a division of Australians under my command.' But victory came at a heavy price with the lives of 1177 Australians lost at El Alamein, almost as many as in Kokoda and Tobruk combined.Herb Ashby was wounded in the Siege of Tobruk and served in the Battle of El Alamein. With three Victoria Crosses awarded to his battalion during the campaign, including two to his platoon, Herb assisted his battalion to become the most highly decorated Australian battalion in the war.This is Herb's story of the Tobruk, El Alamein and war in the Western Desert.
Author : Peter Rees
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781743311684
About 1,300 Australians died in the desert campaigns of World War I, while another 3,500 died in North Africa and the Middle East during World War II. Thousands more carried the wounds of war for the rest of their lives. Countless families were left behind to mourn the dead and comfort the injured. A ripple effect of grief passed down the generations. This is the story of Australia's desert wars as never before told. Using letters, diaries, interviews, and unpublished memoirs, "Desert Boys" provides an intensely personal and gripping insight into the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of two generations of Australian soldiers. In many cases these were fathers and sons going to successive wars with all the tragedy, adventure, and hardship that brought. "Desert Boys" is a powerful and absorbing story of bravery and hope, of endurance and determination, of mateship and adversity a very long way from home.
Author : Jill Edwards
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617973482
This new collection of studies presents fresh insights into a war fought over unusually difficult terrain and with exceptional supply demands. From the ongoing Italian geomorphic study of the Alamein arena to individual memories of non-combatant Alexandrians, from the Free French to the seasoned colonial forces of Australia, India, New Zealand, and South Africa, and from vital naval engagements and the siege of Malta to the study of Rommel's leadership and the Churchill-Montgomery duo, this book presents the reader with a detailed yet broad reassessment of the complexities of the war in North Africa between 1941 and 1943, its technology, philosophy, military doctrine, strategy, tactics, logistics, and the associated local and international politics. Writing from the perspectives of some of the many nations whose armies were involved in the conflict, fifteen historians bring to their work the precision of their national historical archival sources in clear and spritely narratives.
