The Mediterranean Theater of Operations: Sicily and the Surrender of Italy (Paperback)

The Mediterranean Theater of Operations: Sicily and the Surrender of Italy (Paperback)
Title The Mediterranean Theater of Operations: Sicily and the Surrender of Italy (Paperback) PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Government Printing Office
Pages 636
Release 1969
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ISBN 9780160899485

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Historien om planlægningen, krigen og følgerne af USAs operationer i Middelhavet under 2. verdenskrig.

Sicily and the Surrender of Italy

Sicily and the Surrender of Italy
Title Sicily and the Surrender of Italy PDF eBook
Author Lieutenant Albert Garland
Publisher CreateSpace
Pages 644
Release 2015-07-16
Genre
ISBN 9781515100430

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(Includes maps) This volume, the second to be published in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations subseries, takes up where George F. Howe's Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West left off. It integrates the Sicilian Campaign with the complicated negotiations involved in the surrender of Italy. The Sicilian Campaign was as complex as the negotiations, and is equally instructive. On the Allied side it included American, British, and Canadian soldiers as well as some Tabors of Goums; major segments of the U.S. Army Air Forces and of the Royal Air Force; and substantial contingents of the U.S. Navy and the Royal Navy. Opposing the Allies were ground troops and air forces of Italy and Germany, and the Italian Navy. The fighting included a wide variety of operations: the largest amphibious assault of World War II; parachute jumps and air landings; extended overland marches; tank battles; precise and remarkably successful naval gunfire support of troops on shore; agonizing struggles for ridge tops; and extensive and skillful artillery support. Sicily was a testing ground for the U.S. soldier, fighting beside the more experienced troops of the British Eighth Army, and there the American soldier showed what he could do. The negotiations involved in Italy's surrender were rivaled in complexity and delicacy only by those leading up to the Korean armistice. The relationship of tactical to diplomatic activity is one of the most instructive and interesting features of this volume. Military men were required to double as diplomats and to play both roles with skill.

The Day of Battle

The Day of Battle
Title The Day of Battle PDF eBook
Author Rick Atkinson
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 852
Release 2008-09-16
Genre History
ISBN 9780805088618

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In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy.

Sicily and the surrender of Italy

Sicily and the surrender of Italy
Title Sicily and the surrender of Italy PDF eBook
Author Albert N. Garland
Publisher
Pages 609
Release 1986
Genre
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Sicily and the Surrender of Italy

Sicily and the Surrender of Italy
Title Sicily and the Surrender of Italy PDF eBook
Author Albert N. Garland
Publisher
Pages 609
Release 1986
Genre World War, 1939-1945
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Salerno to Cassino

Salerno to Cassino
Title Salerno to Cassino PDF eBook
Author Martin Blumenson
Publisher
Pages 516
Release 1969
Genre World War, 1939-1945
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The Invasion of Sicily 1943

The Invasion of Sicily 1943
Title The Invasion of Sicily 1943 PDF eBook
Author Jon Diamond
Publisher Pen and Sword
Pages 432
Release 2017-08-30
Genre History
ISBN 1473896118

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With victory in North Africa complete, the Allies had a choice. The Americans wanted an early cross channel attack from Britain on North West Europe. Churchill favored invading the soft underbelly of Italy to weaken the Axis forces and gain Italian surrender. With Eisenhowers army and battle-hardened Eighth Army in North Africa, Churchill prevailed.The ambitious Operation HUSKY required meticulous planning. Montgomery's Eighth Army and Patton's Seventh landed successfully although the air landing proved costly. While the outcome was not in doubt the mountainous terrain acted in the defenders favor. The German presence was higher than expected and the vast bulk of the enemy were Italian. In little over a month, the first Americans reached Messina.The strategic plan was successful: the Italian capitulated, Hitler had to reinforce his Southern flank relieving pressure on the Soviets and valuable lessons were learned by Allied for D-Day.