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Author: Frank de Planta de Wildenberg Publisher: ISBN: Category : Battlefields Languages : en Pages : 0
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"This book is a sequel to the 2014 South Mountain Expeditions tour that led to the first three books in the "Walking Tour" series. This fourth book covers World War II (WWII) in Rome and the battlefields from north of Rome to Bologna. This book was added to cover the advance of Allied forces after the liberation of Rome, the taking of Florence, and the Eighth Army's penetration of the Gothic line through the Argenta Gap. The impact of World War II on Rome: the Eighth Army's offensive strategy; Albert Kesselring's defensive-line selection and delay strategy; the impact of 1940's military technology; the endemic role of the terrain and weather; and the emotional impact of the thousands of graves that represent only a small fraction of the human price for Italian freedom from tyranny, all come to life in this story. This book presents a narrative description of a history tour whose transcribed quotes and images were derived from unrestricted video footage of the people and their words recorded on the tour, as well as Frank de Planta's detailed notes"--
Author: Frank de Planta de Wildenberg Publisher: ISBN: Category : Battlefields Languages : en Pages : 0
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"This book is a sequel to the 2014 South Mountain Expeditions tour that led to the first three books in the "Walking Tour" series. This fourth book covers World War II (WWII) in Rome and the battlefields from north of Rome to Bologna. This book was added to cover the advance of Allied forces after the liberation of Rome, the taking of Florence, and the Eighth Army's penetration of the Gothic line through the Argenta Gap. The impact of World War II on Rome: the Eighth Army's offensive strategy; Albert Kesselring's defensive-line selection and delay strategy; the impact of 1940's military technology; the endemic role of the terrain and weather; and the emotional impact of the thousands of graves that represent only a small fraction of the human price for Italian freedom from tyranny, all come to life in this story. This book presents a narrative description of a history tour whose transcribed quotes and images were derived from unrestricted video footage of the people and their words recorded on the tour, as well as Frank de Planta's detailed notes"--
Author: Frank de Planta de Wildenberg Publisher: Nova Science Publishers ISBN: 9781536190779 Category : Anzio, Battle of, Anzio, Italy, 1944 Languages : en Pages : 0
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"The Italian Campaign is truly an amazing, and often heartbreaking, story, and it certainly generates sympathy as well as respect for the soldiers who fought there, particularly the sacrificed Texas and Polish soldiers as well as the British "D-Day Dodgers." In addition to the British soldiers, you gain a new and far greater appreciation of the men in the 36th Texas and Polish Divisions because of their commitment, heroism and sacrifice in these battles, much less the many others from multiple nations who fought in Italy in 1943 and 1944. This book is the third title in the NOVA Science Publishers Homeland Security Series presenting a walking tour of World War II battle sites in mainland Italy: 1. A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields: From the Salerno Landings to San Pietro Infine 2. A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields: Breaking the Gustav and Hitler Lines 3. A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields: From the Anzio Landings to Rome. These books were derived from the sights and sounds experienced during Marty Gane's South Mountain Expeditions tour called WWII Invasion of Italy: From Sicily to Rome, conducted in September 2014. The late Edwin Cole Bearss was the lead South Mountain historian for the tour, and helped select our expert history guide British Lt Col (Retd) Frank de Planta de Wildenberg, a deservedly renown Italian battlefield tour leader. Franks designed the tour route, providing the specific strategic and tactical on-the-ground details experienced at each tour stand site. Ed Bearss provided insightful commentary and likened situations to his own combat experience as a Marine in the WWII Pacific theater. After experiencing the disaster of the underpowered US 36th Division at the Rapido crossing as described in Book 1 and the four battles for the high ground around Montecassino to break the Gustav Line from Book 2, the walking tour from Anzio to Rome demonstrates more horrific losses of men and material for little gain. The cost of attacking the "tough old gut," includes the American Rangers at Cisterna and the British in the World War I trench warfare of the Lobster Claws above Anzio. Added to these losses are the men and woman behind the lines, the doctors and nurses, lost to the terror shelling by long-range cannon like Anzio Annie, reminiscent of the Paris Gun during WWI. The late Ed Bearss history tours always emphasize the importance of the terrain in victory or defeat for the ground soldier, his or her units, and the armies as a whole. From the Alban Hills, German artillery observers could see everything that moved on the Anzio Plan, call in indirect fire from many guns with impunity, or lob shells into the port area miles behind the fighting. Just as at Salerno, the Allies had to capture this high ground to protect the beachhead, and once through the Velletri Gap, move north toward Rome"--
Author: Robert Irving Desourdis Publisher: ISBN: 9781536185720 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Italy, despite the recent COVID impact, is a beautiful country where Americans, Britons, Indians, New Zealanders, Canadians, French, Algerians, Tunisians, Moroccans and Poles fought the Germans and Italian Axis partners in World War II. Though there are a few well-known mass-media books covering the history in narrative from with period grainy black and white photos, there are no such books that walk the ground with leading historians, pointing out the scenes of the action and viewing the memorials to the lives lost, particularly the military cemeteries. This book will provide sweeping imagery of the key sites with transcribed on-scene oratory provided by the well-known Italian Campaign historian and tour guide Frank de Planta de Wildenberg, These former British and American soldiers, now history tour guides, walk the ground with our tour group so that we can experience the sites of the Allied-led Campaign on the Italian Peninsula. You see breathtaking views on the shores and in the mountains, particularly the beautiful villages, and the great visibility afforded the Germans in and around all three locations: Salerno, Cassino and Anzio.Frank de Planta de Wildenberg, the lead history guide, has done dozens of tours on these battlefields. He provides access into little known areas tramped by the soldiers who fought there and now often visited by British Army groups to hear Frank's depth of knowledge in what has become his life's work upon retirement from the Army. His wit and wisdom come through his veteran stories and personal experiences in the British Army. He read Modern History at King's College, University of London and was commissioned into The Royal Anglian Regiment in 1984. He retired in 1991 and joined the Army Reserve during which time he commanded East Midlands Officers' Training Corps in Nottingham and conducted numerous battlefield tours in Italy. Frank de Planta was strongly motivated by Fred Majdalany's personal account of Cassino, which sparked an intense interest and he now devotes much of his free time to this fascinating and highly controversial series of battles that, ultimately, led to a costly breakthrough in May/June 1944. His interest then shifted to include Salerno and Anzio, parts of the Italian Campaign that are inextricably linked to the Cassino story.
Author: Frank de Planta de Wildenberg Publisher: ISBN: 9781536190762 Category : Battlefields Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Italian Campaign is truly an amazing, and often heartbreaking, story, and it certainly generates sympathy as well as respect for the soldiers who fought there, particularly the sacrificed Texas and Polish soldiers as well as the British "D-Day Dodgers." In addition to the British soldiers, you gain a new and far greater appreciation of the men in the 36th Texas and Polish Divisions because of their commitment, heroism and sacrifice in these battles, much less the many others from multiple nations who fought in Italy in 1943 and 1944. This book is the second title in the NOVA Science Publishers Homeland Security Series presenting a walking tour of World War II battle sites in mainland Italy:A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields: From the Salerno Landings to San Pietro InfineA Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields: Breaking the Gustav and Hitler LinesA Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields: From the Anzio Landings to Rome.These books were derived from the sights and sounds experienced while on Marty Gane's South Mountain Expeditions 2014 tour called WWII Invasion of Italy: From Sicily to Rome. The late Edwin Cole Bearss [1] was the lead South Mountain historian for the tour, and helped select our expert history guide British Lt Col (Retd) Frank de Planta de Wildenberg, a deservedly renown Italian battlefield tour leader. Franks designed the tour route, providing the specific strategic and tactical on-the-ground details we experienced at each stand (tour location) we visited. Ed Bearss provided insightful commentary and likened situations to his own combat experience as a Marine in the WWII Pacific theater.This book provides the images and narration of Frank and Ed as we were taken on the tour of battle sites as the Allies tried four times to break through the Gustav Line and then another battle for the Hitler Line. Nowhere has the importance of terrain in ground combat more apparent, and perhaps more exaggerated, than in Italy, and even more so in and around Montecassino. This book documents Frank's and Ed's accurate and insightful narrative and many photographs drawn from tour video. We were continuously impressed with the full visibility of the Liri Valley floor from the surrounding heights above Rte. 6, the chosen Allied route to Rome. These heights enabled domination of the battles fought for the Gustav Line by physically underpowered and tactically overmatched Allied armies. Creating this book series brought back many emotive sights, sounds, stories and emotions (unfortunately, not the food) experienced on the tour. We hope it provides some sense of that experience for the reader.
Author: Frank De Planta Publisher: Nova Science Publishers ISBN: 9781536191974 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 284
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"The Italian Campaign is truly an amazing, and often heartbreaking, story, and it certainly generates sympathy as well as respect for the soldiers who fought there, particularly the sacrificed Texas and Polish soldiers as well as the British "D-Day Dodgers." In addition to the British soldiers, you gain a new and far greater appreciation of the men in the 36th Texas and Polish Divisions because of their commitment, heroism and sacrifice in these battles, much less the many others from multiple nations who fought in Italy in 1943 and 1944. This book is the third title in the NOVA Science Publishers Homeland Security Series presenting a walking tour of World War II battle sites in mainland Italy: 1. A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields: From the Salerno Landings to San Pietro Infine 2. A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields: Breaking the Gustav and Hitler Lines 3. A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields: From the Anzio Landings to Rome. These books were derived from the sights and sounds experienced during Marty Gane's South Mountain Expeditions tour called WWII Invasion of Italy: From Sicily to Rome, conducted in September 2014. The late Edwin Cole Bearss was the lead South Mountain historian for the tour, and helped select our expert history guide British Lt Col (Retd) Frank de Planta de Wildenberg, a deservedly renown Italian battlefield tour leader. Franks designed the tour route, providing the specific strategic and tactical on-the-ground details experienced at each tour stand site. Ed Bearss provided insightful commentary and likened situations to his own combat experience as a Marine in the WWII Pacific theater. After experiencing the disaster of the underpowered US 36th Division at the Rapido crossing as described in Book 1 and the four battles for the high ground around Montecassino to break the Gustav Line from Book 2, the walking tour from Anzio to Rome demonstrates more horrific losses of men and material for little gain. The cost of attacking the "tough old gut," includes the American Rangers at Cisterna and the British in the World War I trench warfare of the Lobster Claws above Anzio. Added to these losses are the men and woman behind the lines, the doctors and nurses, lost to the terror shelling by long-range cannon like Anzio Annie, reminiscent of the Paris Gun during WWI. The late Ed Bearss history tours always emphasize the importance of the terrain in victory or defeat for the ground soldier, his or her units, and the armies as a whole. From the Alban Hills, German artillery observers could see everything that moved on the Anzio Plan, call in indirect fire from many guns with impunity, or lob shells into the port area miles behind the fighting. Just as at Salerno, the Allies had to capture this high ground to protect the beachhead, and once through the Velletri Gap, move north toward Rome"--
Author: Frank de Planta Publisher: Nova Science Publishers ISBN: 9781536191455 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 287
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Bernard Nolan was a member of the "Gentlemen from Hell," the 487th Bomb Group, commanded for a time by Beirne Lay, who went on to write Twelve O'clock High, which became the famous film starring Gregory Peck. Barney was born on November 22, 1922 in Long Island City, New York and grew up before and after the Great Depression. Though not having high school or college degrees, he was long inspired to fly from the enthusiasm of early adventurers in the air like Charles Lindberg and Amelia Earhart, and was part of a generation of young airmen who longed to fly. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor drew on the nation's manpower, and Barney studied to be selected as a recruit in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He flew 33 missions striking at Nazi targets in Western Europe.His memoir tells of his early life at a time when you could go see Doris Day or Frank Sinatra perform live in New York. He describes the impacy of the Depression on his family, his having to find work and leave school, and make other sacrifices to one day fly for his country. We see the frustration --- which he surmounted - of thinking himself a fighter pilot, but ending up a copilot in a four-engine bomber. Hitler's Luftwaffe would use radar, fighters, and flak to knock them from the skies, but they prevailed.We hear about his death-defying missions, see the bombs falling on European landscapes as they were then and as they are today, we watch with him as other planes go down in flames, we live though him being shot down himself, and experience it all through the eyes of a young man in the air. He was not a General or part of the ground echelon, and he is not recalling stories from a father or uncle in his memoir; he was in the aircraft massed by many hundreds to strike well-defended Nazi targets in the daylight. There are very few people left who did so, and Barney is one of them.Perhaps the most important real-life lesson learned from this book is the influence of strong will and perseverance to achieve a dream, as Barney surely did. As a child in the Depression excited by the flying heroes of the age, it seemed there would be too many obstacles blocking that dream. We see how his desire to fly made him a pilot by taking advantage of the war and following his heroes into the air. Once a pilot, we see how he worked to keep flying in the Air Services even after he completed his 33 missions in the European Air War crucible, and kept himself in the air when peace came. In fact, this child of the Depression with a dream of flying would one day be, as he called himself, "Mr. Airplanes," of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).Finally, we see how he met and married the love of his life, and is still married after 75 years. A lot is written today about relationships, but Barney and Sunny Nolan were engaged after two weeks of courtship and are closer today than ever after all those years. That story in itself demonstrates Sunny's as well as Barney's character and commitment, their knowledge of themselves and what is important in their lives.
Author: Anne Saunders Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781540566041 Category : Languages : en Pages : 188
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THE BOOK SHOWN ON THIS PAGE IS THE UPDATED AND EXPANDED SECOND EDITION, published in December 2016. This new version adds tours of WWII sites in Sicily/southern Italy, and updates the descriptions of WWII sites in central and northern Italy. It also adds locations along the Adriatic coast, where the Eighth Army fought many battles. Altogether the new edition describes almost 200 sites. The guidebook closes with excerpts from the journal of a prisoner of war who spent months in Italian POW camps. Please note that book reviews prior to December 2016 refer to the FIRST edition, published in 2010 and no longer in print (although some first-edition copies are still for sale on the Amazon website).
Author: Mark W. Clark Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 476
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“[The World War II campaign] of the Mediterranean Theatre - the ‘soft underbelly of the Axis’ as Churchill so wrongly called it - was compounded of elements reminiscent of the heyday of the Foreign Legion - intrigue, suspense, a secret mission to a secret seaside villa in Algeria... the strange but necessary alliance with Darlan, and then the bloody, muddy and most unexpectedly long and difficult Italian campaign where the roster of troops sounded like the roll-call of the allied nations. These are elements to make any book interesting, and, if past history, still exciting, and General Clark has capitalized fully on them. There are sketches of Churchill, of Eisenhower in his difficult coordinating position, of the war’s lesser known heroes, the officers and enlisted men of the battle command Clark wanted and finally received. And there is the series of almost fatal blunders which followed the taking of Rome when the Western Allies seemed almost determined to play into the hands of the Russians. Tito might have left the Kremlin’s orbit sooner, and the present list of satellite nations might have been smaller. And when Clark was made American high commissioner of Austria he experienced more of the same lack of foresight and he concludes with a political sophistication not common to the military – ‘We celebrated a victory when in reality we had not won the War’. Honest, forceful, colorful, this is one of the best books to come from World War II’s top brass.” — Kirkus “Calculated Risk deals in large part with events and situations in which General Clark and I were not only close associates but friends and comrades. But even if I am, therefore, a prejudiced witness, I cheerfully and unhesitatingly prophesy that thousands will find the book as accurate and as completely absorbing as I did.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower “[F]orthright, hard-hitting stuff... This book [...] should be widely read... A high-powered, high-tempered man [...] afraid of nothing and no man, [Clark] was consistently given tough assignments. His superiors always seem to have had complete confidence in his ability to carry out these assignments and always gave him their full moral support... The whole Mediterranean Campaign, he says, was a calculated risk. The North African Campaign was an extremely perilous military adventure. Aside from possible French and probable German resistance in North Africa, there was always the threat of Spanish or German attack via Spanish Morocco on our extended lines of communication, an attack which might well have been fatal... a fascinating book.” — Richard E. Danielson, The Atlantic
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