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Author: John Wilks
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 1998-01-12
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0850526086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the Italian defeat at Caporetto, a Bri tish Expeditionary Force under General Plumer was despatched from France. This account describes the campaign which ende d after the victory at Vittorio Veneto over the Austrians. '
Author: John Wilks
Publisher: Leo Cooper Books
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the disastrous Italian defeat at Caporetto, a British Expeditionary Force under General Plumer was despatched from France. This impressively researched account described this hitherto neglected campaign ending in the victory at Vittorio Veneto over the Austrians.
Author: Mark Thompson
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2009-03-17
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0786744383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled. With elegance and pathos, historian Mark Thompson relates the saga of the Italian front, the nationalist frenzy and political intrigues that preceded the conflict, and the towering personalities of the statesmen, generals, and writers drawn into the heart of the chaos. A work of epic scale, The White War does full justice to the brutal and heart-wrenching war that inspired Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
Author: Stefano Marcuzzi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-10
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 1108924603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an important reassessment of British and Italian grand strategies during the First World War. Stefano Marcuzzi sheds new light on a hitherto overlooked but central aspect of Britain and Italy's war experiences: the uneasy and only partial overlap between Britain's strategy for imperial defence and Italy's ambition for imperial expansion. Taking Anglo-Italian bilateral relations as a special lens through which to understand the workings of the Entente in World War I, he reveals how the ups-and-downs of that relationship influenced and shaped Allied grand strategy. Marcuzzi considers three main issues – war aims, war strategy and peace-making – and examines how, under the pressure of divergent interests and wartime events, the Anglo-Italian 'traditional friendship' turned increasingly into competition by the end of the war, casting a shadow on Anglo-Italian relations both at the Peace Conference and in the interwar period.
Author: Spencer Jones
Publisher:
Published: 2021-10-15
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781914059988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the latest volume of Spencer Jones's award-winning series which examines the British Army on the Western Front year-by-year.
Author: Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson
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Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan D. Bratten
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George H. Cassar
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781852851668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith The Forgotten Front, George H. Cassar intends to demonstrate Italy's vital contribution to the Allied effort in the First World War. His account of the war in Italy covers the strategic considerations as well as the actual fighting.
Author: George Catlett Marshall
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge C. Marshall was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, Marshall served as the United States Army Chief of Staff during the war and as the chief military adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As Secretary of State, his name was given to the Marshall Plan, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. He drafted this manuscript while he was in Washington, D.C., between 1919 and 1924 as aide-de-camp to General of the Armies John J. Pershing. However, given the growing bitterness of the "memoirs wars" of the period he decided against publication, and the draft sat unused until the 1970s when Marshall's step-daughter and her husband decided to publish it.
Author: John Gooch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-19
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0521193079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major new account of the role and performance of the Italian army in the First World War. Setting military events in a broad context, Gooch explores pre-war Italian military culture, and reveals how an army with a reputation for failure fought a challenging war in appalling conditions - and won.
