Flawed Commanders And Strategy In The Battles For Italy 1943 45
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Flawed Commanders and Strategy in the Battles for Italy 1943 45
Author | : Andrew Sangster,Pier Paolo Battistelli |
Publsiher | : Casemate |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2023-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781636243139 |
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Wars never run according to plan, perhaps never more so than during the Italian campaign, 1943–45, where necessary coordination between the different armies added additional complexity to Allied plans. Errors in the strategies, tactics, the coalition tensions, and operations at campaign command level can clearly be seen in firsthand accounts of the period. This new account examines the Italian campaign, from Sicily to surrender in 1945, exploring the strategy, intentions, motives, plans, and deeds. It then offers a detailed insight into the five commanders who led the battles in Italy—the two British commanders, Montgomery and Alexander; two American, Patton and Clark; and the leading German commander, Field Marshal Kesselring. Their personal notes and accounts, taken alongside archival material, provides some surprising conclusions—Montgomery was not quite the master of war he is portrayed as; Patton had serious flaws, exposed by wasting men’s lives to save a relative and overlooking the shooting of prisoners of war; Clark lost lives to bolster his image; Alexander the gentleman was far too vague to be effective as a senior leader. Meanwhile, condemned war criminal Kesselring appears to be the most efficient and also, like Alexander, one of the most popular leaders.
Flawed Commanders and Strategy in the Battles for Italy 1943 45
Author | : Andrew Sangster,Pier Paolo Battistelli |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-03-15 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1636243126 |
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The flawed leadership of the five senior military commanders in the Italian campaign led to lost lives and squandered opportunities.
Forgotten Battles
Author | : Charles T. O'Reilly |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0739101951 |
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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.
Tug of War
Author | : Dominick Graham,Shelford Bidwell |
Publsiher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 635 |
Release | : 2004-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781473819931 |
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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.
Eighth Army in Italy
Author | : Richard Doherty |
Publsiher | : Pen & Sword |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1844156370 |
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Eighth Army was Britain's most famous field army of the twentieth century. This book studies the experience of Eighth Army in the Italian campaign, examining how a force accustomed to the open spaces of North Africa adjusted to the difficult terrain of Italy where fighting became much more a matter for the infantry than for the armor. The book uses official records at various levels, personal accounts – some never before published – and published material to present a picture of an army that, although defined as British, was one of the war's most cosmopolitan formations.
Tug of War
Author | : Dominick Graham,Shelford Bidwell |
Publsiher | : New York : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0312823231 |
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Recounts the invasion of Italy during World War II, analyzes the strategies of Allied and German forces, and includes profiles of the military leaders on both sides
The Allied Forces in Italy 1943 45
Author | : Guido Rosignoli |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105034369665 |
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Gennemgang af operationer, udrustning og uniformer m.v. af den mest kosmopolitiske, allierede styrke, som oprettedes under 2. verdenskrig.
Allied Armies in Sicily and Italy 1943 1945
Author | : Simon Forty |
Publsiher | : Pen and Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2020-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781526766236 |
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The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of the Second World War, 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 defence 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 (US Fifth and British Eighth) drew men not only from Britain, the United States, France and Poland but 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.