Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945 : Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945.
Material type: TextSeries: History of Warfare SerPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (271 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004255708Subject(s): Combined operations (Military science) -- History -- 20th century | Tactics -- History -- 20th century | Unified operations (Military science) -- History -- 20th century | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Mediterranean RegionGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945 : Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945DDC classification: 940.54/23 LOC classification: D766 -- .A455 2014ebOnline resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Andrew Hargreaves, Patrick Rose and Matthew Ford -- chapter 1 -- Coalition Air-Land Doctrine in the North African Campaign: Moving Towards a Single Concept of Operations, June 1942 - March 1943 -- James Hudson -- chapter 2 -- A Blueprint for Success: Army-Air Force Co-operation and the Battle for the Mareth Line, 19-29 March 1943 -- Ross Mahoney -- chapter 3 -- The Fusion of the North African armée de l'air and the FAFL after Operation TORCH, November 1942 - May 1944 -- Paul Lemaire -- chapter 4 -- "When Opportunity Arises": British Airborne Operations in the Mediterranean, 1941-1944 -- John Greenacre -- chapter 5 -- Rearguard Action: Eighth Army's Tactical Response to the German Evacuation of Sicily, July - August 1943 -- Kevin Jones -- chapter 6 -- Indian Army Training for the Italian Campaign and Lessons Learnt -- Alan Jeffreys -- chapter 7 -- Learning on the Job: Training the Brazilians for Combat in the Gothic Line -- Cesar Campiani Maximiano -- chapter 8 -- The Quartermaster Corps in the Mediterranean: A Motorized Logistics System -- Grant T. Weller -- chapter 9 -- British Army Communications in North Africa and Italy from Operation TORCH to the Capture of Rome -- Simon Godfrey -- chapter 10 -- Failures in Command and Control: The Experience of 4th Indian Division at the Second Battle of Cassino, February 1944 -- Christopher Mann -- chapter 11 -- Reassessing British Army Command: XIII British Corps in the Fourth Battle of Cassino, May - July 1944 -- Patrick Rose -- chapter 12 -- Learning to Exploit Depth: The Application, Evolution and Value of Allied Special Forces in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1945 -- Andrew Hargreaves -- Conclusion -- Andrew Hargreaves, Patrick Rose and Matthew Ford -- Index.
Allied Fighting Effectiveness is a collection of scholarly papers focusing on a variety of different aspects of the major campaigns of North Africa, Sicily and Italy, ranging from operation TORCH to the end of the war in Europe.
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