The Second World War Europe And The Mediterranean

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Publisher : Square One Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 075705160X
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean written by and published by Square One Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​*** OVER 210,000 WEST POINT MILITARY HISTORY SERIES SETS IN PRINT ​*** From the prewar development of the German war machine to the ultimate victory of the Allied coalition, here is an in-depth analysis of the battles that raged on the Western and Eastern Fronts. It examines the major strategies, the innovative tactics, and the new generation of weapons—along with the people who used them.

Author : Douglas Porch
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374529765
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Path to Victory written by Douglas Porch and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mediterranean theater in World War II has long been overlooked by historians who believe it was little more than a string of small-scale battles--sideshows that were of minor importance in a war whose outcome was decided in the clashes of mammoth tank armies in northern Europe. But in this ground-breaking new book, one of our finest military historians argues that the Mediterranean was World War II's pivotal theater. Douglas Porch examines the Mediterranean as an integrated arena, one in which events in Syria and Suez influenced the survival of Gibraltar. Without a Mediterranean alternative, the Western Allies would probably have committed to a premature cross-Channel invasion in 1943 that might well have cost them the war. Brilliantly argued, with vivid portraits of Churchill, Montgomery, FDR, Rommel, and Mussolini, this original, accessible, and compelling account of a little-known theater emphasizes the importance of the Mediterranean in the ultimate Allied victory in Europe in World War II.

Author : Reynolds Mathewson Salerno
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801437724
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Crossroads written by Reynolds Mathewson Salerno and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most international historians present the outbreak of World War II as the result of an irreconcilable conflict between Great Britain and Germany. This ubiquitous Anglo-German perspective fails to recognize complex causes and repercussions of international events, misappropriates historical responsibilities, and overlooks many global and imperial factors of the war's origins. Reynolds M. Salerno shows that the situation in the Mediterranean played a decisive role in the European drama of the late 1930s and profoundly influenced the manner in which the Second World War unfolded. Vital Crossroads is the result of the author's remarkable access to and extensive research in twenty-eight archives in five different countries. Concentrating on the period from the Mediterranean crisis of 1935 to Italy's declaration of war in June 1940, Salerno demonstrates that the international politics of pre-World War II Europe--particularly in the Mediterranean--can only be understood as the multilateral interaction of British, French, German, and Italian foreign and defense policies. Control of the Mediterranean, he asserts, was a central concern for the European powers in 1935-40, and a fundamental reason why Europe went to war and why the conflict unfolded as it did. As a result, France and Italy influenced and often determined the nature and direction of Allied and Axis policy to an extent disproportionate to their nations' military and economic strength.Salerno contends that the Allies' reluctance to take decisive action against Fascist Italy in 1939-40 contributed to the fall of France in 1940, Britain's desperate situation in 1940-41, and the post-war collapse of Britain as a world power. At a time when the Allied powers dreaded the ability of the German military to march across the European continent, they also feared that the Italian armed forces would strive to fulfill Mussolini's grand imperial ambitions in the Mediterranean.

Author : Michael Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mediterranean Strategy in the Second World War written by Michael Howard and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas E. Griess
Publisher : Square One Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0757001610
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlas for the Second World War written by Thomas E. Griess and published by Square One Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the prewar development of the German war machine to the ultimate victory of the Allied coalition, here is an in-depth analysis of the battles that raged on the Western and Eastern Fronts. It examines the major strategies, the innovative tactics, and the new generation of weapons--along with the people who used them.

Author : Andrew Buchanan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107661358
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II written by Andrew Buchanan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a thorough reinterpretation of US engagement with the Mediterranean during World War II. Andrew Buchanan argues that the United States was far from being a reluctant participant in a 'peripheral' theater, and that Washington had a major grand-strategic interest in the region. By the end of the war the Mediterranean was essentially an American lake, and the United States had substantial political and economic interests extending from North Africa, via Italy and the Balkans, to the Middle East. This book examines the military, diplomatic, and economic processes by which this hegemonic position was assembled and consolidated. It discusses the changing character of the Anglo-American alliance, the establishment of post-war spheres of influence, the nature of presidential leadership, and the common interest of all the leaders of the 'Grand Alliance' in blocking the development of potentially revolutionary movements emerging from the chaos of war, occupation, and economic breakdown.

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Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second World War written by and published by Avery. This book was released on 1984 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers World War II in the European and Mediterranean theaters.

Author : Thomas E. Griess
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 : 9780895293053
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlas of the Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean written by Thomas E. Griess and published by Avery. This book was released on 1985 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This atlas depicts primarily strategic coverage of the major compaigns of the war in the European and Mediterranean theaters.

Author : Kenneth E. Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War Against Germany and Italy written by Kenneth E. Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Horst Boog
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198738312
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Germany and the Second World War written by Horst Boog and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine months after the beginning of the Second World War, German dominance over much of Europe seemed assured. Hitler not only stood on the pinnacle of his popularity in Germany but more than ever his ideological fixations and political calculations determined German war policy. This volume, the fourth in the acclaimed Germany and the Second World War series, examines the thinking behind the decision to go to war with the Soviet Union which was to prove the undoing of the German war effort. The authors examine in revealing detail the military and political policies behind the attack on the Soviet Union and the strategic conduct of the war. They explore not only the command principles and practices, but also the expenditure and attrition of the forces, and show that by the end of 1941 it was clear that it was in the eastern theatre that the Second World War would be decided and the map of Europe redrawn.