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Author | : Edwin P. Hoyt |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2002-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313076758 |
A year before the much-heralded second front was opened at Normandy in 1944, the Allies waged a campaign in Sicily and Italy—an assault that was marked by argument and dissent from beginning to end, highlighting the fundamental differences in strategic thinking between the Americans and the British. Winston Churchill favored scrapping what would become the Normandy invasion entirely, focusing instead on the soft underbelly of Nazi Europe, but American planners summarily rejected any plan that relied solely on a southern option. This is the story of this backwater campaign, a series of battles skillfully staged by the Germans and so botched by the Allies that their victory was achieved only as a result of German exhaustion. During the hard-fought campaign, the Americans persisted in their suspicion that the British were trying to undermine the effort. For example, the imbroglio over the Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino and the ineptness of the British assault, led by a commander already discredited by his role in the fall of Crete, would spur the Americans to overreact and destroy the monastery by bombing. This created a major propaganda victory for the Germans. Such incidents convinced both Washington and London that they were working at cross-purposes. Hoyt contends that, as the British argued at the time, Allied efforts would have been better-spent concentrating on the Balkans. The Normandy campaign was expensive, unnecessary, and ultimately lengthened the war.
Author | : Edwin Palmer Hoyt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Author | : Edwin P. Hoyt |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2006-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780811733823 |
The Allies waged an assault in Sicily and Italy marked by dissent from beginning to end. Includes the controversial bombing of Monte Cassino.
Author | : Peggy Woodford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2010-02-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781904529538 |
A story for teenagers about the impact of the Second World War on the people of the British Channel Islands. The Channel Islands were the only part of Britain that Hitler's army managed to win and occupy, and the islanders were cut off for the whole war. They ran out of food and clothing, their houses were taken for enemy troops, their radios were confiscated, they lost their freedom. But the Germans couldn't take away their courage, and seventeen year-old Anna and her friends plot the ultimate act of resistance against the enemy-escape...
Author | : Robert W. Black |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2004-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0811741478 |
Covers raids from J. E. B. Stuart's 1862 ride around McClellan's army to James Wilson's crashing raids in Alabama and Georgia in 1865.
Author | : Geoffrey C. Ward |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2020-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030749859X |
The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost. Focusing on the citizens of four towns— Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama;—The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa. Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, including many never published before, this is an intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the war that shaped our world. From the Hardcover edition.
Author | : Samuel W. Mitcham |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2007-08-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0811741524 |
The most famous battles of one of World War II's most legendary commanders. Told largely from Rommel's perspective, using his papers and letters.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : Erwin Wunderlich |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2008-07-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1493187058 |
SALVOS ON THE BACKWATER has won praise from critics as an entertaining story of one mans love for Florida. For Jack Nichols to build a new life along the 1863 Gulf coast, he must avoid contested areas of both the Civil War and everyday life. Chased by a warship up a creek one morning, he and his uncle happen upon the Hamilton homestead. There, the widow Rebecca is struggling mightily to hold her family together in the lush and violent wilderness. Jack is unaware of the dangerous chain of events that will be set in motion by his actions on this fateful day.
Author | : Thomas W. Zeiler |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 1541 |
Release | : 2012-12-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1118325052 |
A Companion to World War II brings together a series of fresh academic perspectives on World War II, exploring the many cultural, social, and political contexts of the war. Essay topics range from American anti-Semitism to the experiences of French-African soldiers, providing nearly 60 new contributions to the genre arranged across two comprehensive volumes. A collection of original historiographic essays that include cutting-edge research Analyzes the roles of neutral nations during the war Examines the war from the bottom up through the experiences of different social classes Covers the causes, key battles, and consequences of the war