Allied Armies in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1945 (ePub)
Photographs from Wartime Archives
(Sprache: Englisch)
A pictorial history of Allied forces making their way through Italy in the final years of World War II, featuring rare photos from wartime archives.
The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of World War II, splitting the American and British...
The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of World War II, splitting the American and British...
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A pictorial history of Allied forces making their way through Italy in the final years of World War II, featuring rare photos from wartime archives.
The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of World War II, splitting the American and British allies, and causing great disharmony. After the fall of Rome and the surrender of Italy, the invasion of Normandy led to the Italian campaign becoming a sideshow as the "D-Day Dodgers" fought their way through Italy to the Alps against a grinding defense and extreme weather.
In a sequence of 200 wartime photographs Simon Forty sums up the major events of the conflict-from the landings on Sicily to the crossing of the Po. Commanded first by Sir Harold Alexander and then Mark Clark, the Allied armies (U.S. Fifth and British Eighth) drew men not only from Britain, the United States, France, and Poland, but also from all over the Commonwealth-from Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa-as well as such other countries as Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Greece, and Palestine.
The devastation caused by the war in the cities, towns, and countryside is part of the story, but perhaps the most powerful impression is made by the faces of the soldiers themselves as they look out from the Italian front of so long ago.
"Another addition to the very popular Images of War series, with a mass of outstanding and rare images. The author covers campaigns in Sicily and Italy as the Allies slogged their way north, using amphibious and airborne assault to bypass the German lines-Very Highly Recommended." -Firetrench
The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of World War II, splitting the American and British allies, and causing great disharmony. After the fall of Rome and the surrender of Italy, the invasion of Normandy led to the Italian campaign becoming a sideshow as the "D-Day Dodgers" fought their way through Italy to the Alps against a grinding defense and extreme weather.
In a sequence of 200 wartime photographs Simon Forty sums up the major events of the conflict-from the landings on Sicily to the crossing of the Po. Commanded first by Sir Harold Alexander and then Mark Clark, the Allied armies (U.S. Fifth and British Eighth) drew men not only from Britain, the United States, France, and Poland, but also from all over the Commonwealth-from Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa-as well as such other countries as Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Greece, and Palestine.
The devastation caused by the war in the cities, towns, and countryside is part of the story, but perhaps the most powerful impression is made by the faces of the soldiers themselves as they look out from the Italian front of so long ago.
"Another addition to the very popular Images of War series, with a mass of outstanding and rare images. The author covers campaigns in Sicily and Italy as the Allies slogged their way north, using amphibious and airborne assault to bypass the German lines-Very Highly Recommended." -Firetrench
Autoren-Porträt von Forty Simon Forty
Simon Forty was educated in Dorset and the north of England before reading history at London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He has been involved in publishing since the mid-1970s, first as editor and latterly as author. Son of author and RAC Tank Museum curator George Forty, he has continued in the family tradition writing mainly on historical and military subjects including books on the Napoleonic Wars and the two world wars. Recently he has produced a range of highly illustrated books on the Normandy battlefields, the Atlantic Wall and the liberation of the Low Countries with co-author Leo Marriott.
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- Autor: Forty Simon Forty
- 2020, 144 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Pen and Sword Military
- ISBN-10: 1526766213
- ISBN-13: 9781526766212
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.03.2020
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