Scandinavian Misadventure
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Scandinavian Misadventure
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Author : Spellmount Ltd. Publishers Staff
language : en
Publisher: Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Release Date : 1986
Scandinavian Misadventure written by Spellmount Ltd. Publishers Staff and has been published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with categories.
Scandinavian Misadventure
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Author : Maurice Harvey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Scandinavian Misadventure written by Maurice Harvey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
Scandinavian Misadventure
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Author : Maurice Harvey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-11-30
Scandinavian Misadventure written by Maurice Harvey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-30 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
In April 1940, an uneasy pause, following the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939, settled over Europe. All the major protagonists were insufficiently prepared to engage in a major land battle on the Western Front during the winter of 1939/40, the RAF was unready to launch a strategic offensive on Germany and it was only at sea that the conflict was pursued with any conviction. Goaded by Winston Churchill, the Allies contemplated severing the supply route of iron ore from Sweden to Germany via Narvik but, for six months, the governments in London and Paris debated incessantly but did nothing. The government in Oslo, clinging to Norway's neutralist principles, watched and waited. In the early hours of 9 April 1940, Hitler emphatically answered the question of where the war was to be fought, launching a sea and air attack on Norway and Denmark. The Allies responded promptly, but although their intervention was ill prepared and inadequately supported, it was studded with fierce military actions and individual acts of valour and fortitude. The author carefully sets the scene in all the countries directly involved in the conflict before describing the invasion itself and the two dramatic raids on Narvik. The description of the main land battle is followed by an analysis of the lessons to be learned from this calamitous episode in the Allied war effort including showing how thee naval losses the Germans suffered ensured Britain was safe from invasion and made the evacuation from Dunkirk possible.
Official History Of The Royal Air Force 1935 1945 Vol I Fight At Odds Illustrated Edition
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Author : Denis Richards
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-15
Official History Of The Royal Air Force 1935 1945 Vol I Fight At Odds Illustrated Edition written by Denis Richards and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with History categories.
Includes, 21 maps/diagrams and 17 Illustrations/photos The Royal Air Force is the oldest independent air force in the world, having gained its spurs over the trenches of Flanders in the First World War it was officially established in 1918. However it was during the Second World War that it would achieve its greatest successes yet, from an inauspicious start following post war budget cuts it would rise to become a decisive factor in the campaign to remove the Nazis from Europe and the Japanese from mainland Asia. The three volume Official History gives a sound and broad narrative of all of the campaigns, actions and engagements that the Royal Air Force was party to across Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia. The text was set out in manageable chapters, each dealing with a particular episode of the struggle against Fascism; and is written in an easy and accessible style free from the specialised vocabulary of flying or aerial combat. The first volume covers the period - 1939-1942; including The Initial Phoney War period. The Norway Expedition The Battle of France The Battle of Britain The Blitz The opening stages of the Battle of the Atlantic The opening stages of the North African Campaign.
Royal Air Force 1939 1945 The Fight At Odds By D Richards
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Author : Denis Richards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
Royal Air Force 1939 1945 The Fight At Odds By D Richards written by Denis Richards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Rediscovering Irregular Warfare
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Author : A. R. B. Linderman
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2016-02-29
Rediscovering Irregular Warfare written by A. R. B. Linderman and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-29 with History categories.
Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE), which conducted sabotage campaigns and supported resistance movements in Axis-occupied Europe and in Asia, is often described as Winston Churchill’s brainchild. But as A. R. B. Linderman reveals in this engrossing history, the real genius behind Britain’s clandestine warriors was Colin Gubbins, a British officer who forged the SOE by drawing on lessons learned in irregular conflicts around the world. Following Gubbins through operations he studied and participated in, Linderman maps the evolution of the SOE from its origins to its doctrine to its becoming a critical institution. Part biography, part intellectual and organizational history, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare is the first book to explore the origins of a substantial force in the Allies’ victory in World War II. Although popular history holds that Britain entered World War II with no prior knowledge of or experience with underground warfare, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare tells us otherwise. Linderman finds ample precedent in the clearly documented work of Gubbins and his fellow clandestine organizers. He traces Gubbins’s career from 1914 through World War I and such irregular conflicts as the Allied intervention in Russia, the Irish Revolution, and conflicts in British India. To these firsthand experiences, Gubbins added the insights of colleagues who had served with him and in Iraq, as well as what he learned from the Second Anglo-Boer War, the Arab Revolt led by T. E. Lawrence, the German guerrilla war in East Africa, the revolt in Palestine between the world wars, the Spanish Civil War, and the Second Sino-Japanese War. The two booklets that Gubbins wrote based on his accumulated knowledge offered the first synthesis of British unconventional warfare doctrine: practical guides that emphasized the centrality of local populations; the collection, protection, and use of intelligence; the necessity of cooperating with conventional forces; and the use of speed, surprise, and escape in ambush operations. In 1940, when Gubbins joined the newly created SOE, the experience and know-how codified in his guides formed the basis of Britain’s approach to irregular warfare. The history of the SOE’s doctrinal origins is Colin Gubbins’s story. By telling that story, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare amplifies and clarifies our understanding of the Second World War—and of doctrines of unconventional warfare in the twentieth century.
Hitler S Northern War
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Author : Adam R. A. Claasen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Hitler S Northern War written by Adam R. A. Claasen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Adolf Hitler had high hopes for his conquest of Norway, which held both great symbolic and great strategic value for the Fuhrer. Despite early successes, however, his ambitious northern campaign foundered and ultimately failed. Adam Claasen for the first time reveals the full story of this neglected episode and shows how it helped doom the Third Reich to defeat. Hitler and Raeder, the chief of the German navy, were determined to take and keep Norway. By doing so, they hoped to preempt Allied attempts to outflank Germany, protect sea lanes for German ships, access precious Scandinavian minerals for war production, and provide a launchpad for Luftwaffe and naval operations against Great Britain. Beyond those strategic objectives, Hitler also envisioned Norway as part of a pan-Nordic stronghold—a centerpiece of his new world order. But, as Claasen shows, Hitler's grand expectations were never realized. Gring's Luftwaffe was the vital spearhead in the invasion of Norway, which marked a number of wartime firsts. Among other things, it involved the first large-scale aerial operations over sea rather than land, the first time operational objectives and logistical needs were fulfilled by air power, and the first deployment of paratroopers. Although it got off to a promising start, the German effort, particularly against British and arctic convoys, was greatly hampered by flawed strategic thinking, interservice rivalries between the Luftwaffe and navy, the failure to develop a long-range heavy bomber, the diversion of planes and personnel to shore up the German war effort elsewhere, and the northern theater's harsh climate and terrain. Claasen's study covers every aspect of this ill-fated campaign from the 1940 invasion until war's end and shows how it was eventually relegated to a backwater status as Germany fought to survive in an increasingly unwinnable war. His compelling account sharpens our picture of the German air force and widens our understanding of the Third Reich's way of war.
British Policy And Strategy Towards Norway 1941 45
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Author : C. Mann
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-11-19
British Policy And Strategy Towards Norway 1941 45 written by C. Mann and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-19 with History categories.
After the German occupation of 1940, Britain was forced to reassess its relationship with Norway, a country largely on the periphery of the main theatres of the Second World War. Christopher Mann examines British military policy towards Norway, concentrating on the commando raids, deception planning and naval operations.
Hitler S Arctic War
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Author : Chris Mann
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2016-11-30
Hitler S Arctic War written by Chris Mann and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-30 with History categories.
In the past the German General Staff had taken no interest in the military history of wars in the north and east of Europe. Nobody had ever taken into account the possibility that some day German divisions would have to fight and to winter in northern Karelia and on the Murmansk coast. (Lieutenant-General Waldemar Erfurth, German Army). Despite this statement, the German Armys first campaign in the far north was a great success: between April and June 1940 German forces totaling less than 20,000 men seized Norway, a state of three million people, for minimal losses. Hitlers Arctic War is a study of the campaign waged by the Germans on the northern periphery of Europe between 1940 and 1945. As Hitlers Arctic War makes clear, the emphasis was on small-unit actions, with soldiers carrying everything they needed food, ammunition and medical supplies on their backs. The terrain placed limitations on the use of tanks and heavy artillery, while lack of airfields restricted the employment of aircraft. Hitlers Arctic War also includes a chapter on the campaign fought by Luftwaffe aircraft and Kriegsmarine ships and submarines against the Allied convoys supplying the Soviet Union with aid. However, Wehrmacht resources committed to Norway and Finland were ultimately an unnecessary drain on the German war effort. Hitlers Arctic War is a groundbreaking study of how war was waged in the far north and its effects on German strategy.
Hitler S Pre Emptive War
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Author : Henrik O. Lunde
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Hitler S Pre Emptive War written by Henrik O. Lunde and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with History categories.
En grundig gennemgang af en af historiens revolutionerende kampagner, kampagnen mod Norge.