Eighth Army Soldier Vs Italian Soldier

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Eighth Army Soldier Vs Italian Soldier

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Author : David Greentree
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-10-24

Eighth Army Soldier Vs Italian Soldier written by David Greentree and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-24 with History categories.

Fully illustrated, this absorbing study assesses the Commonwealth and Italian infantrymen pitted against one another during the First and Second battles of El Alamein in 1942. By July 1942, the Allied troops fighting in North Africa, the multinational Eighth Army, had withdrawn to the El Alamein line, the last position stopping their German and Italian opponents from reaching the Suez Canal. Featuring full-colour artwork, carefully chosen archive photographs and incisive analysis, this book casts light on the Commonwealth and Italian infantrymen who participated in the seesaw battle for control of the North African coastline as it entered its decisive phase, played out over two bloody engagements during July–October 1942. Although Allied and Axis commanders saw armour as the decisive weapon in the Desert War, the infantry fielded by both sides would be key to the outcomes of the two El Alamein battles. While the majority of the 96,000 Axis troops at the first battle were Italian, mostly infantry, Commonwealth forces provided the greater part of Eighth Army's fighting strength. During the First Battle of El Alamein in July 1942, Italian infantry units clashed with Indian troops at Ruweisat Ridge and Australian forces at Makh Khad Ridge; both battles are assessed in this book, along with the defence mounted by New Zealand troops at Miteiriya Ridge during the Second Battle of El Alamein that October.

Eighth Army In Italy

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Author : Richard Doherty
language : en
Publisher: Pen & Sword
Release Date : 2007

Eighth Army In Italy written by Richard Doherty and has been published by Pen & Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.

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.

The Italian Army In North Africa

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Author : Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Release Date : 2018-08-17

The Italian Army In North Africa written by Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr. and has been published by Fonthill Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-17 with History categories.

Previously unpublished analysis of why and how the Italians foughtA look at the role the Italian Army played in North Africa as part of the Deutsches Afrika Korps (German Afrika Korps)In spite of poor leadership, the Italian soldier performed well against all odds in North AfricaProfusely illustrated with many rare and unpublished images ‘The German soldier has impressed the world, however, the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.’ Erin Rommel aka ‘The Desert Fox’ When most people think of the Italian Army in North Africa during the Second World War, they tend to believe that the average Italian soldier offered little resistance to the Allies before surrendering. Many suggest that the Italian Army performed in a cowardly manner during the war: the reality is not so simple. The question remains as to whether the Italians were cowards or victims of circumstance. While the Italian soldier’s commitment to the war was not as great as that of his German counterpart, many Italians fought bravely. The Italian Littorio and Ariete Divisions earned Allied admiration at Tobruk, Gazala and EI Alamein. The Italian Army played a significant role as part of the German Afrika Korps and made up a large portion of the Axis combat power in North Africa during 1941 and 1942. In the interest of determining how the Italian Army earned the reputation that it did, it is necessary to analyse why and how the Italians fought.

Few Returned

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Author : Eugenio Corti
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 1997-05-28

Few Returned written by Eugenio Corti and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-28 with History categories.

After World War II more than one hundred books appeared that dealt with the experience of the Italian army in Russia, and particularly the terrible winter retreat of 1942-1943. Few Returned (I piu' non ritornano) is the only one of these that is still regularly reissued in Italy. Eugenio Corti, who was a twenty-one-year-old second lieutenant at the time, found himself, together with 30,000 Italians and a smaller contingent of Germans, encircled on the banks of the River Don by enemy forces who far outnumbered them. To break out of this encirclement, these men undertook a desperate march across the snow, with constant engagements and in temperatures ranging from -20 to -30 degrees Fahrenheit. Whereas supplies were air-dropped to the Germans, the predicament of the Italians was far more difficult: lacking gasoline, they were compelled to abandon their vehicles and to proceed without heavy arms, equipment, ammunition, or provisions. Even the wounded had to be abandoned, though it was well known that the soldiers of the Red Army"enraged by the brutality of the German invasion"killed all the enemy wounded who fell into their hands. After twenty-eight days of encirclement, only 4,000 of the 30,000 Italians made it out of the pocket. Why is it that Corti's book, which was first published in 1947, continues after fifty years to be reprinted in Italy? Because, as Mario Apollonio of the University of Milan said, when the book first appeared: "It is a chronicle . . . but it is much more than that: behind the physical reality, there is the truth" about man at his most tragic hour. Apollonio adds: "The power of the writing immediately transforms the document into drama"; the result is a "novel-poem-drama-history." The philosopher Benedetto Croce found in Corti's book "the not infrequent gleam of human goodness and nobility." Few Returned is a classic of war literature that succeeds in bringing home the full hatefulness of war. Eugenio Corti began writing his diary at a military hospital immediately after being repatriated from the Russian front. When in September 1943 Italy found itself cut in two by the Armistice, Corti, loyal to his officer's oath, joined up with what remained of the Italian army in the south and with those few troops participated in driving the Germans off Italian soil, fighting at the side of the British Eighth and the American Fifth Armies.

The War Against Germany And Italy

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Author : Kenneth E. Hunter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951

The War Against Germany And Italy written by Kenneth E. Hunter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.

The War Against Germany And Italy Mediterranean And Adjacent Areas

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988

The War Against Germany And Italy Mediterranean And Adjacent Areas written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.

Fighting The People S War

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Author : Jonathan Fennell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-24

Fighting The People S War written by Jonathan Fennell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-24 with History categories.

Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.

I Was An Eighth Army Soldier

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Author : Robert John Crawford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944

I Was An Eighth Army Soldier written by Robert John Crawford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.

Sicily And The Surrender Of Italy

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Author : Lieutenant Albert Garland
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-07-16

Sicily And The Surrender Of Italy written by Lieutenant Albert Garland and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-16 with categories.

(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.

North Apennines

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Author : Dwight D. Oland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

North Apennines written by Dwight D. Oland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.