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Backwater War
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Author : Edwin P. Hoyt
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2002-06-30
Backwater War written by Edwin P. Hoyt and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-30 with History categories.
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.
Backwater War
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Author : Edwin P. Hoyt
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2006-11
Backwater War written by Edwin P. Hoyt and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11 with History categories.
The Allies waged an assault in Sicily and Italy marked by dissent from beginning to end. Includes the controversial bombing of Monte Cassino.
Backwater War
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Author : Edwin Palmer Hoyt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Backwater War written by Edwin Palmer Hoyt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Backwater War
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Author : Peggy Woodford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-02-01
Backwater War written by Peggy Woodford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
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...
Spear Carrier In A Backwater War
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Author : Edward C. Larson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-11-11
Spear Carrier In A Backwater War written by Edward C. Larson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Salvos On The Backwater
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Author : Erwin Wunderlich
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2008-07-30
Salvos On The Backwater written by Erwin Wunderlich and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-30 with Fiction categories.
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.
East Persia
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Author : William Edmund Ritchie Dickson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1924
East Persia written by William Edmund Ritchie Dickson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1924 with Iran categories.
Cavalry Raids Of The Civil War
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Author : Robert W. Black
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2004-09-16
Cavalry Raids Of The Civil War written by Robert W. Black and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-16 with History categories.
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.
The War
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Author : Geoffrey C. Ward
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2020-02-04
The War written by Geoffrey C. Ward and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with History categories.
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.
Rommel S Desert War
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Author : Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2007-08-16
Rommel S Desert War written by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-16 with History categories.
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.