The Field Marshal's Memoirs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Field Marshal's Memoirs write by John Masters. This book was released on 1975. The Field Marshal's Memoirs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When an 80-year-old British Field Marshal announces his intention of writing his memoirs of World War II, all sorts of people with things to hide get upset-- including the British, American and Yugoslavian governments. The memoirs do not, in the end, get published, but many secrets are revealed in the interim.
The Field-Marshal's Memoirs
The Field-Marshal's Memoirs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Field-Marshal's Memoirs write by John Masters. This book was released on 1976. The Field-Marshal's Memoirs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery
The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery write by Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. This book was released on 2006-03-19. The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his own words, the victor of El Alamein tells his life story in a book that’s “an absolutejoy to read and may be described as a tour-de-force” (Belfast News Letter). First published in 1958 Montgomery’s memoirs cover the full span of his career first as a regimental officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and then as a Staff Officer. His choice of the Warwickshires was due to his lack of money. He saw service in India before impressing with his courage, tactical skill and staff ability in the Great War. Despite his tactless uncompromising manner his career flourished between the wars but it was during the retreat to Dunkirk that his true brilliance as a commander revealed itself. The rest is history, but in this autobiography we can hear Monty telling his side of the story of the great North African Campaign followed by the even more momentous battles against the enemy “and, sadly, the Allies” as he strove for victory in North West Europe. His interpretation of the great campaign is of huge importance and reveals the deep differences that existed between him and Eisenhower and other leading figures. His career ended in disappointment and frustration being temperamentally unsuited to Whitehall and the political machinations of NATO.
A Field Marshal’s Memoirs
A Field Marshal’s Memoirs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Field Marshal’s Memoirs write by Count Alfred von Waldersee. This book was released on 2019-07-23. A Field Marshal’s Memoirs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present volume is the 1924 English translation of Field-Marshal Alfred Count von Waldersee’s memoirs by Frederic Whyte. “Field-Marshal Alfred Count von Waldersee’s Denkwürdigkeiten are in three volumes in the German edition. The two first, covering the years 1832-1900, were issued at the end of 1922; the third, covering the period August 1900-March 1904, appeared late in 1923. The entire work was edited by Herr Heinrich Otto Meisner, with the approval and assistance of the Field-Marshal’s nephew, Lieut.-General George Count von Waldersee, who contributed a brief Preface to Volume I. The nephew acclaims the uncle as ‘Christian, Nobleman, Prussian, German, Soldier and Servant of his Sovereigns.” “There is a second Preface by Herr Meisner, who abstains from panegyrics and merely explains how the work has been pieced together. The Field-Marshal, it seems, had intended eventually to prepare a book of Reminiscences for the press, but only a very few pages of the Denkwürdigkeiten as printed were written with a view to publication. They have been compiled almost altogether from private diaries, correspondence and memoranda. Hence the impression which they give of absolute genuineness; hence, also, much of their value as a trustworthy historical document. As the well-known critic, Richard Bahr, remarked in the Münchener Zeitung, the work presents in this respect a welcome contrast with many of the autobiographical volumes which have recently appeared in Germany—’self-justification-screeds,’ as he calls them. The Reminiscences which the Field-Marshal contemplated writing might, indeed, have had to be placed in the same category, but here we have the author almost ‘un-retouched,’ and almost as natural and as ingenuous as Pepys.”—Frederic Whyte
Alexander Memoirs, 1940–1945
Alexander Memoirs, 1940–1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alexander Memoirs, 1940–1945 write by Alexander of Tunis. This book was released on 2010-08-19. Alexander Memoirs, 1940–1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After his first meeting with General Alexander in August 1942, Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks wrote that: By repute he was Winston Churchills fire brigade chief par excellence: the man who was always dispatched to retrieve the most desperate situations.Churchill was indeed in need of a fire brigade chief. Allied forces had been chased back across the desert by Rommel. Alexander bought a new hope to the Desert Rats: he instilled them with his own confidence and thought of victory. Under his command, Montgomery was ready to fight and win the battle of El Alamein. Even as his generals drove the enemy from North Africa, Alexander was planning far ahead for Sicily and Operation Husky: the first major seaborne invasion by either side during the war.It was said that before El Alamein the Allies never knew victory, and after El Alamein never knew defeat: much of the credit belongs to Alexander. For decades his contribution to the British efforts in both wars has been overlooked. Here, however, is a comprehensive edition of his personal and candid memoirs, which includes judgments on such men as Montgomery, Patton and Churchill. He also details his role in leading the withdrawal of the 1st Infantry Division at Dunkirk, his dealings with Stilwell in Burma and the bombing of the Monte Cassino abbey.
