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 Anzio: The Gamble That Failed 
 Author: Martin Blumenson Anzio: The Gamble That Failed J. B. Lippincott Company 1963 Format: PDF Pages: 230 Language: English Size: 25.1 MB Anzio is a small town beside the sea, an hour's drive from Rome. It is a pleasant place. There are no monuments to visit, no tombs or relics to revere, no grand views, not even a restaurant of note. Only the beaches for sunbathing and digging in the sand, the cool blue water for swimming. A prosperous seaport twenty-five hundred years ago, a fashionable summer resort two thousand years ago, entirely deserted a millennium ago, Anzio was the arena for a great clash of arms in 1944. During four long months of that year the combatants of World War II were locked at Anzio in a deadly embrace. The Allies threw down the challenge when American and British troops came ashore at Anzio in search of Rome. Picking up the challenge, the Germans reacted violently.
The People's Army - Home Guard in Scotland 1940-1944
 Author: Brian D. Osborne The People's Army - Home Guard in Scotland 1940-1944 Birlinn 2009 Format: PDF Pages: 253 Language: English Size: 46.6 MB Based on contemporary archive materials and personal accounts, Brian Osborne examines the human story of the Home Guard in Scotland and the impact that this remarkable organisation had on society and on those that became involved with it. The Home Guard, and its forerunner the Local Defence Volunteers, was genuinely a 'people's army' with its own ethos, character and political influence. At its peak nearly 2 million men were enrolled, trained and served without pay in their own time and, usually, after a full day's work at the civilian occupation. The Home Guard played a vital part in the defence of the country from 1940-1944, but despite its significance the story of the Home Guard in Scotland has never before been fully told - from Shetland to Galloway, Scottish Home Guardsmen fulfilled a wide range of roles far beyond the popular image of the 'Dad's Army' of general service infantry battalions. Horseback patrols in the Borders, armoured trains, anti-aircraft gunners at factories throughout Scotland, anti-aircraft rocket batteries from Aberdeen to Greenock all saw the Home Guard actively engaged in the national struggle.
Luftwaffe Namorni Letectvo 1939-1945: Ilustrovana Historie
 Author: Chris Goss; Bernd Rauchbach Luftwaffe Namorni Letectvo 1939-1945: Ilustrovana Historie Nase Vojsko ISBN: 8020606602 2003 Format: PDF Pages: 200 Size: 39 Mb Language: English Luftwaffe Naval Aviation 1939-1945: An Illustrated History
Death by Mustard Gas - How Military Secrecy and Lost Weapons can Kill
 Author: Geoff Plunkett Death by Mustard Gas - How Military Secrecy and Lost Weapons can Kill Leech Cup Books 2014 Format: PDF Pages: 247 Language: English Size: 27.4 MB In 1943 a top secret consignment of chemical weapons, including deadly mustard gas, arrived in Australia by ship. But there was a problem - it was leaking. Military authorities quickly realised this but, in the interests of secrecy, sent unprotected and unsuspecting wharf labourers into a lethal environment. The result was catastrophic: permanent disability and death. This shocking narrative includes accounts of official deceit, intimidation of gassed labourers and denial of natural justice. The truth, buried in classified documents and the testimony of the few survivors, is that human life was sacrificed for the sake of secrecy. Almost 70 years after war stocks of chemical weapons were apparently totally destroyed, mustard gas is still present on the Australian mainland, in her oceans and along her coastal fringes. The total destruction of chemical stocks is simply another military assumption. The truth is that these deadly weapons were incompletely destroyed, buried or simply lost. Many retain their effectiveness despite the passing of time, a fact that cost one man his life and saw staff and children at a school badly burned in 1964. Mustard gas weapons have been retrieved as recently as 2012 and more may lie in shallow graves waiting to be uncovered. This is a very real lesson for the military of today. This book is a volume in the Australian Army History Collection, published by the Army History Unit (Department of Defence, Australia). It featured on the 7pm ABC news on 28 November 2014.
Dieppe: Operation Jubilee - Channel Ports
 Author: Tim Saunders Dieppe: Operation Jubilee - Channel Ports Pen and Sword Military Battleground Europe ISBN: 1844152456 2005 Format: EPUB Pages: 224 Size: 10 Mb Language: English In 1942, with the outcome of the war very much in the balance, there was a pressing need for military success on mainland Europe. Churchill ordered Admiral Lord Mountbatten's Combined Operations HQ to take the war to the Germans. The Canadians were selected for the Dieppe raid, which, while a morale raiser, was a disaster. Over 3,000 men were lost. This authoritative account looks at the planning, execution and analyses the reasons for failure.
The Politics of War - Australia at War, 1939-45 - From Churchill to Macarthur
 Author: David Day The Politics of War - Australia at War, 1939-45 - From Churchill to Macarthur Harper Collins 2003 Format: PDF Pages: 763 Language: English Size: 35.6 MB The first-ever collection of David Day's groundbreaking Second World War histories - 'The Great Betrayal' and 'Reluctant Nation'. The fall of Singapore in February 1942 confronted Australia with its worst nightmare - the possibility of invasion by Japan. With Australia's fighting strength scattered across the globe defending British interests in the Mediterranean and elsewhere, the nation looked to Britain for help. But it was not forthcoming. Instead, with Australia's northern towns being pounded by Japanese bombers, the country was forced to look to the US to help fend off the looming danger. So began the most terrifying period in Australian history, culminating in the naval battle of the Coral Sea and the battle of the Kokoda Track. Only then did the risk of invasion recede. As the battles raged, the politicians in Canberra and London, led by John Curtin and Winston Churchill, bickered over the disposition of the troops and the provision of munitions. These diplomatic battles were fought almost as furiously as the battles on the ground between the soldiers of the opposing armies. Based on his original publications of 'The Great Betrayal' and 'Reluctant Nation' plus extensive new research in the archives of Britain and Australia, and utilising a very readable narrative style, David Day places the landmark battle of Allied forces within their wider political context. The book exposes the awful peril in which Australia was placed by the war in the Pacific and shows how Australia's relationship with Britain was tested almost to breaking point.
The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II
 Author: Charles Glass The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition ISBN: 1594204284 2013 Format: epub Size: 3.59 mb Pages: 400 Language: Ehglish “Powerful and often startling…The Deserters offers a provokingly fresh angle on this most studied of conflicts.” --The Boston Globe A groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, The Deserters offers a completely new perspective on the Second World War. Charles Glass—renowned journalist and author of the critically acclaimed Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation—delves deep into army archives, personal diaries, court-martial records, and self-published memoirs to produce this dramatic and heartbreaking portrait of men overlooked by their commanders and ignored by history. Surveying the 150,000 American and British soldiers known to have deserted in the European Theater, The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II tells the life stories of three soldiers who abandoned their posts in France, Italy, and Africa. Their deeds form the backbone of Glass’s arresting portrait of soldiers pushed to the breaking point, a sweeping reexamination of the conditions for ordinary soldiers. With the grace and pace of a novel, The Deserters moves beyond the false extremes of courage and cowardice to reveal the true experience of the frontline soldier. Glass shares the story of men like Private Alfred Whitehead, a Tennessee farm boy who earned Silver and Bronze Stars for bravery in Normandy—yet became a gangster in liberated Paris, robbing Allied supply depots along with ordinary citizens. Here also is the story of British men like Private John Bain, who deserted three times but never fled from combat—and who endured battles in North Africa and northern France before German machine guns cut his legs from under him. The heart of The Deserters resides with men like Private Steve Weiss, an idealistic teenage volunteer from Brooklyn who forced his father—a disillusioned First World War veteran—to sign his enlistment papers because he was not yet eighteen. On the Anzio beachhead and in the Ardennes forest, as an infantryman with the 36th Division and as an accidental partisan in the French Resistance, Weiss lost his illusions about the nobility of conflict and the infallibility of American commanders. Far from the bright picture found in propaganda and nostalgia, the Second World War was a grim and brutal affair, a long and lonely effort that has never been fully reported—to the detriment of those who served and the danger of those nurtured on false tales today. Revealing the true costs of conflict on those forced to fight, The Deserters is an elegant and unforgettable story of ordinary men desperately struggling in extraordinary times.
Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe
 Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe W. W. Norton & Company 1967 Format: PDF Pages: 134 Language: English Size: 17 MB In the final months of World War II, with the Allied forces streaming into Germany on two fronts, a major decision had to be made; where to draw a stop line to prevent an accidental clash between the Russian and the Anglo-American armies. Behind this decision lay another. Which forces would be the first to reach Berlin?
Famous American Military Leaders of World War II
 Author: Collective Famous American Military Leaders of World War II Dodd, Mead & Company 1966 Format: PDF Pages: 144 Language: English Size: 16 MB Who are the military leaders who come forward in times of crisis? Probably not one of America's many famous generals or admirals can be typed into an exclusive category. They sprang from all sections of the country and from parentage both great and humble, usually the latter. Their personalities and tastes have been as mixed as those of any group of men selected at random. Many were flamboyant characters, or actually odd, and some were normal to a colorless degree.
Great Weapons of World War II
 Author: John Kirk & Robert Young, Jr. Great Weapons of World War II Bonanza Books 1961 Format: PDF Pages: 366 Language: English Size: 33.4 MB The Second World War produced a profusion of formidable weapons which left their mark on the history of the Twentieth Century. Some, like the Supermarine Spitfire, aaved nations; others, like the atomic bomb, undid them. There were weapons like Italy's human torpedoes which were associated with exploits of almost unbelievable daring; there were weapons like the German "88" which spectacularly altered the course of campaigns; and there were weapons like the Garand rifle, which, through sheer ubiquity, left a diffuse but, in sum, massive impress on the contours of the war.
Russian KV and IS
 Author: F. Shillings Russian KV and IS (AFV Weapons Profile 17) Profile Publications Ltd 1970 Format: PDF Size: 14,6 МБ Language: English
Tigers in Normandy
 Author: Wolfgang Schneider Tigers in Normandy Stackpole Books 2011 Format: EPUB Pages: 384 Size: 15 Mb This combat chronicle of the German Tiger tank--one of World War II's best--during the Normandy campaign (June to August 1944), appears for the first time in English. New details on famous tank ace Michael Wittmann are revealed, as well as other WWII must-knows like how the Tiger performed against Allied armor, particularly the Sherman. Maps, orders of battle, period photos, and then-and-now shots make this the go-to book on the subject.
Operation Bluecoat: Over the Battlefield: Breakout from Normandy
 Author: Ian Daglish Operation Bluecoat: Over the Battlefield: Breakout from Normandy Pen and Sword Military ISBN: 1848840497 2009 Format: EPUB Pages: 336 Size: 69 Mb Language: English After seven weeks of bitter fighting there was a desperate need to break out of the Normandy bridgehead. In late July 1944 Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey's Second Army moved two entire corps from the Caen sector to the relatively quiet countryside around Caumont. Here, the British XXX Corps prepared to give battle, with VII Corps advancing in support on the right flank between XXX Corps and the American first Army. The offensive did not go to plan. While the XXX Corps attack stalled, VIII Corps surged ahead. With the experienced 11th Armoured and 15th Scottish Divisions in the lead and Guards Armoured close behind, a deep penetration was made, threatening to take the pivotal city of Vire and unhinge General Hausser's German Seventh Army.
British Cruiser Tanks of World War 2
 British Cruiser Tanks of World War 2 Author: Pat Ware Kelsey Publishing The War Archives ISBN: 978 1909786318 2014 Language: English Pages: 100 Format: PDF Size: 89,7 MB Developed according to a specifi cation drawn up by Lieutenant-Colonel E D Swinton, and designed by William Tritton, the tank was the brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty. Churchill hoped that his massive, armoured ‘landships’ would be able to break the stalemate that was the inevitable result of the opposing armies becoming entrenched on the Western Front
Military Leaders Since World War II
 Author: Carl W. Borklund Military Leaders Since World War II Facts on File 1992 Format: PDF Pages: 152 Language: English Size: 22.2 MB Describes the careers of eleven modern American military figures, including Colin Powell, William Westmoreland, Edward Rowny, and James Abrahamson.Military Leaders Since World War II.pdf
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
 D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Illustrated Edition) Author: Antony Beevor Viking / Penguin Books Ltd. 2009 ISBN: 067088703X Pages: 448 Language: English Format: EPUB Size: 53 MB The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side. The war in northern France marked not just a generation but the whole of the post-war world, profoundly influencing relations between America and Europe. Making use of overlooked and new material from over thirty archives in half a dozen countries, D-Day is the most vivid and well-researched account yet of the battle of Normandy. As with Stalingrad and Berlin, Antony Beevor's gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war.
German Destroyers of World War II
 Author: Gerhard Koop German Destroyers of World War II Seaforth Publishing / Pen and Sword Warships of the Kriegsmarine ISBN: 1848321937 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 224 Size: 10 Mb Language: English The warships of the World War II German Navy are among the most popular subjects in naval history, and one of the best collections is the concise but authoritative six volume series written by Gerhard Koop and illustrated by Klaus-Peter Schmolke. Each book contains an account of the development of a particular class, a detailed description of the ships, with full technical details, and an outline of their service, and are heavily illustrated with plans, battle maps and a substantial collection of photographs.
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