The American Operations in WW2: North Apennines
By Dwight D. Oland, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Length56m
About this audiobook
World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. Highly relevant today, World War II has much to teach us, not only about the profession of arms, but also about military preparedness, global strategy, and combined operations in the coalition war against fascism. This book follows military operations of the US Army in the Northern Italy from 10 September 1944 to 4 April 1945.
By the end of the first week of August 1944 members of the British Eighth Army stood on the Ponte Vecchio, bridging the Arno River in recently liberated Florence, Italy. The Eighth Army had just completed a campaign, in conjunction with the U.S. Fifth Army, that had kept Axis forces in Italy in full retreat, unable to halt the Allied drive north of Rome that had begun with Operation DIADEM the previous May. For the first time since the Italian campaign had begun, Allied leaders were optimistic that they were on the verge of pushing the Germans out of the northern Apennines and sweeping through the Po Valley beyond. After that, many hoped for a rapid advance into the Alps, the Balkans, and perhaps into Austria, before winter and the enemy could stem their advance...
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 5, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The American Operations in WW2: North Apennines
210 September 1944-4 April 1945
3Strategic Setting
4Operations
5Analysis
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