The Allied Bombing of Central Italy - 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 Allied Bombing of Central Italy write by Teresa Fava Thomas. This book was released on 2023-09-15. The Allied Bombing of Central Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Allied Bombing of Central Italy examines the results of the Second World War Allied bombing campaign on Palestrina and Rome, Italy, and the long-term impact of the war on the mountainside town and on the Barberini family's art collection including the Nile Mosaic. It explores the history and cultural significance of Palestrina, its strategic setting, the recovery of the town, the restoration of the Nile Mosaic, which remains the largest Egyptian-style mosaic extant. A unique aspect of the destruction was that it uncovered a pagan temple, the Sanctuary of Fortuna. The bombing destroyed the homes built on its terraces but revealed the ancient structure buried beneath which had remained unseen for half a millennium. It took more than a decade for the mosaic to be restored and the Sanctuary of Fortuna established as a national archeological museum. The book explores the pressure by the Mussolini regime to control the Barberini family's art collection, the uses of cultural materials for propaganda purposes, the Allied use of airpower in the Italian theater of war, the postwar decision-making and recovery process. The book is one of the very few long-range studies of the war's impact on a single Italian town. It is suitable for academic seminars and an educated general audience.
The War Against Germany and Italy
The War Against Germany and Italy - 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 War Against Germany and Italy write by Kenneth E. Hunter. This book was released on 1951. The War Against Germany and Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Fire and Fury
Fire and Fury - 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 Fire and Fury write by Randall Hansen. This book was released on 2009-09-15. Fire and Fury available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. National Bestseller An enlightening and utterly convincing re-examination of the allied aerial bombing campaign and of civilian German suffering during World War II–an essential addition to our understanding of world history. During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead. Much of the bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of the Allied military leadership. Hundreds of thousands of people died needlessly. Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, and using a compelling narrative approach, Fire and Fury tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign through the eyes of those involved: military and civilian command in America, Britain, and Germany, aircrew in the sky, and civilians on the ground. Acclaimed historian Randall Hansen shows that the Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command, Arthur Harris, was wedded to an outdated strategy whose success had never been proven; how area bombing not only failed to win the war, it probably prolonged it; and that the US campaign, which was driven by a particularly American fusion of optimism and morality, played an important and largely unrecognized role in delivering Allied victory.
Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945
Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 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 Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945 write by Matthew Evangelista. This book was released on 2022-12-22. Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 than before, when the air attacks were intended to induce Italy’s surrender. Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945 addresses this seeming paradox, by examining the views of Allied political and military leaders, Allied air crews, and Italians on the ground. It tells the stories of a little-known diplomat (Myron Charles Taylor), military strategist (Solly Zuckerman), resistance fighter (Aldo Quaranta), and peace activist (Vera Brittain) – architects and opponents of the bombing strategies. It describes the fate of ordinary civilians, drawing on a wealth of local and digital archival sources, memoir accounts, novels, and films, including Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and John Huston’s The Battle of San Pietro. The book will be of interest to readers concerned about the ethical, legal, and human dimensions of bombing and its effects on civilians, to students of military strategy and Italian history, and to World War II buffs. They will benefit from a people-focused history that draws on a range of eclectic and rarely used sources in English and Italian. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Forgotten Blitzes
Forgotten Blitzes - 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 Forgotten Blitzes write by Claudia Baldoli. This book was released on 2012-05-03. Forgotten Blitzes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Forgotten Blitzes analyses how states and civil society in Vichy France and Fascist Italy reacted to the experience of Allied bombing between 1940 and 1945.
