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The Early Battles Of Eighth Army

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Author : Adrian Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Leo Cooper Books
Release Date : 2002

The Early Battles Of Eighth Army written by Adrian Stewart and has been published by Leo Cooper Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.

"As Adrian Stewart reveals in this account, the early history of the Desert Rats was by no means so glorious or successful. Through careful examination of the plentiful evidence, much provided by those who personally fought in North Africa, he analyses the reasons for the near catastrophic reverses in the days before Montgomery. His conclusion is that, far from being due to any lack of resolve or courage on the part of its soldiers or inadequacies of equipment, it was the failure of British generalship, particularly that of General Sir Claude Auchinleck, the Commander-in-Chief Middle East, that proved so damaging. Held in genuinely high regard for his fine qualities, The Auk found himself ill-fitted for the demands of mobile armoured warfare, and often unable to select the right subordinates. It was doubly unfortunate that he and Eighth Army faced the able and charismatic Erwin Rommel."--BOOK JACKET.

Early Battles Of The Eighth Army

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Author : Adrian Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2010

Early Battles Of The Eighth Army written by Adrian Stewart and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.

The birth and baptism of fire of one of Britain's most illustrious military units Studded with numerous firsthand descriptions from soldiers in the African desert Head to head with Erwin Rommel in Africa, the British Eighth Army enjoyed superior numbers and a more effective air force, but despite the valor of its men, it had difficulty turning those advantages into battlefield victory because of command, equipment, and morale problems. After modest success during Operation Crusader in November 1941, the Eighth Army found itself battered and driven back for much of the ensuing year as Rommel scored victory after victory. Not until the fall of 1942 at the Alamein Line did the Eighth Army's fortunes begin to reverse.

Pipeline To Battle

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Author : Peter William Rainier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943

Pipeline To Battle written by Peter William Rainier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Africa, North categories.

Dance Of War

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Author : Peter Bates
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

Dance Of War written by Peter Bates and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Battles categories.

July 1942 was one of the most tense cliff hanger months of the Second World War. While the rest of the world watched and held its breath, the out-generalled Eighth Army was driven out of Cyrenaica by the renowned Field Marshal Rommel, and it seemed likely that it would be forced out of Egypt, too, leaving the British bases and a vast store of war materials to the Germans. Worse, the way would have been open for the Axis to seize the Middle East oilfields, attack Russia from the south, and perhaps even join hands with the Japanese across India. In America, there was even a concern that the Axis would be able to reach across the Atlantic from the African west coast. But at a place called El Alamein the Eighth Army turned and faced its pursuer, and there followed a month-long battle that forced Rommel back on the defensive, and held the line until a rebuilt Eighth Army was able to resume the offensive and, with the American First Army, throw the Axis out of Africa. But while most people know about the Eighth Army's return to attack in the Battle of Alamein, few know that there was an earlier battle, sometimes called the First Battle of Alamein. Yet without this first battle there would never have been the second and the whole course of the war would have been changed. Some believe it would have been lost. This book is about that first battle, the Battle of Egypt, when a small army, 'the few' of the Desert, held Rommel at bay and even came close to destroying him. It is a story of success and failure and high drama.

United States Policy In The Korean Conflict July 1950 February 1951

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Author : United States. Department of State. Office of Public Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951

United States Policy In The Korean Conflict July 1950 February 1951 written by United States. Department of State. Office of Public Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Government publications categories.

A Noble Crusade

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Author : Richard Doherty
language : en
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Release Date : 2020-10-30

A Noble Crusade written by Richard Doherty and has been published by Pen & Sword Military this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-30 with categories.

Eighth Army was formed in Egypt in September 1941. A year later, under Montgomery, it defeated Rommel's Panzerarmee Afrika at El Alamein which led to the victorious end of the North African campaign at Tunis in May 1943.The controversial landings in Italy in September 1943 followed the short Sicilian campaign. Tenacious German resistance, exemplified by the protracted Monte Cassino battle during the first half of 1944, made the Eighth Army's advance north testing and costly. In April 1945, Eighth Army, now commanded by General Dick McCreery, brilliantly attacked into the plain of Lombardy overcoming the last Nazi defensive lines in Italy.No less than thirty-four Victoria Crosses were awarded to soldiers of Eighth Army who were drawn from every Empire and Commonwealth country, including neutral Ireland, and nations such as Poland occupied by the Nazis.Drawing on official records and personal accounts, A Noble Crusade, first published in 1999, is a superb and comprehensive history of the most famous British military formation of the Second World War and, arguably, of all time.

Monty S Greatest Battles 1942 1945

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Author : Adrian Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Release Date : 2024-07-30

Monty S Greatest Battles 1942 1945 written by Adrian Stewart and has been published by Pen and Sword Military this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-30 with History categories.

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery had a dynamic personality that often led to difficulties with political or military superiors but made him an immensely effective leader of men. He identified himself closely with his soldiers whose welfare was his continual concern and whom he treated almost as family. In return, they fought for him magnificently in some of the most important battles of the Second World War. These battles varied in type, terrain and tactics: defended river crossings including that of the Rhine; amphibious landings including the D-Day landings; defensive encounters including Alam Halfa and the Ardennes; mobile operations including the capture of Tripoli, the ‘left hook’ at the Mareth Line and the dash from the Seine to the Scheldt culminating in the daring attempt to seize the Rhine bridges; ‘set piece’ conflicts against enemies in prepared positions equipped with often superior weapons including Alamein and Normandy. In addition to describing the battles that made Montgomery the legendary military commander for which he is rightly remembered, this fascinating book examines both his qualities and weaknesses. Notwithstanding the latter, there is no doubt that he fully justified the trust and loyalty that soldiers gave to the man they knew as ‘Monty’.

South To The Naktong North To The Yalu

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Author : Roy E. Appleman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-12-10

South To The Naktong North To The Yalu written by Roy E. Appleman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-10 with History categories.

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Eighth Army

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Author : Robin Neillands
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Eighth Army written by Robin Neillands and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with El Alamein, Battle of, Egypt, 1942 categories.

From June 1940 to October 1942, Eighth Army was the only Western army facing and fighting the Axis powers, Italian as well as German, on the battlefield. It was a British army, but represented the Free World. Some of the great fighting divisions of the War were part of it - the 9th Australian, the 2nd New Zealand, 1st South African, 4th Indian, 51st Highland and 7th Armoured - the famous Desert Rats - joined by the Free French, the Greek Brigade, and many more from Britain and around the world. Though ultimately triumphant, the Army was not always victorious - it had to fight obsolete equipment, indifferent command and excessive demands as well as the enemy - not forgetting its most admired foe, Rommel, who met his match in Eighth Army's General Sir Bernard Montgomery (Monty). This book is built on the memories of Eighth Army veterans, collected from all over the world. It includes personal accounts of the battles fought at Sidi Rezegh, Alamein, in Sicily and at Cassino - and all the way to the Gothic Line, the end of Eighth Army's 3,000-mile march to victory. It is a story that deserves to be told, about an army that deserves to be remembered.

Alamein

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Author : Stephen Bungay
language : en
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Release Date : 2002

Alamein written by Stephen Bungay and has been published by White Lion Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with El Alamein, Battle of, Egypt, 1942 categories.

In the struggle against Hitler, each of Britain's armed forces fought a battle it had to win. For the Royal Air Force it was the Battle of Britain. For the Royal Navy it was the Battle of the Atlantic. And for the army it was El Alamein. In 1940 the Battle of Britain had kept Britain in the war, only for two years of almost unrelieved disaster to follow: humiliating defeats in Greece and the Far East, and the seemingly inexorable German advance into the Soviet Union. By the summer of 1942 documents were even being burned in Cairo, as Germany's brilliant celebrity general Erwin Rommel threatened to sweep aside the Eighth Army and drive his forces through to the Suez Canal. But then in October 1942, with Churchill's government in desperate need of a military victory, British and Common-wealth troops under Montgomery embarked on a First World War-style battle of attrition in Egypt's Western Desert. After twelve days and thirteen nights they broke through the German and Italian lines at El Alamein. It was a defeat from which Rommel would never recover, and a turning-point in the war famously celebrated by Churchill as 'the end of the beginning' -- the line in the sand Hitler's forces were unable ever to cross. Like his magisterial history of the Battle of Britain, The Most Dangerous Enemy -- already acknowledged as the definitive account -- Stephen Bungay's Alamein is a trenchant re-examination of an event now cloaked in myth. Though the propaganda of the time focussed on personalities, this was a desert war, he reveals, determined largely by logistics. In a conflict that for two years had ebbed and flowed along the North African littoral, victory was always going to go to the side that mastered its supply lines -- in Britain's case not least by withstanding the epic siege of Malta. He also gets beyond the polemics and eulogies of many past writers in re-assessing Alamein's chief protagonists, Montgomery and Rommel, to show how it was precisely the most unattractive side of Montgomery's character that was needed to transform the Eighth Army into a force capable of fighting a battle it could win. But above all Alamein is a magnificently readable narrative illuminating every aspect of the desert war, from the grand strategy of the wider struggle for control of the Mediterranean to the movingly human, in a graphic evocation of the phantasmagoric blur of thunderous cannonade, baking heat and tormenting flies that was the soldier's war. In the year of the sixtieth anniversary of Alamein, this superb book is a gripping re-telling of one of the crucial battles of the war. Book jacket.