Author : Ian Stanley Ord Playfair
Release : 2004-09-01
Genre : World War, 1939-1945
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The Mediterranean and Middle East: pt. 1. Victory in the Mediterranean 1st April to 4th June 1944 - 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 Mediterranean and Middle East: pt. 1. Victory in the Mediterranean 1st April to 4th June 1944 write by Ian Stanley Ord Playfair. This book was released on 2004-09-01. The Mediterranean and Middle East: pt. 1. Victory in the Mediterranean 1st April to 4th June 1944 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sixth in the eight volumes describing the Mediterranean a Middle Eastern theatres in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War narrates the campaign in Italy from March to June 1944. After the Allies bogged down at Anzio and Monte Cassino, General Alexander determined on a Spring offensive - Operation Diadem - to take Monte Cassino, break the German defences of the Gustav Line, and capture Rome. The Line was successfully breached by the British Eighth and the US Fifth Armies within days of the offensive s opening and the subsidiary Hitler Line was also broken. As a follow-up, American, Canadian and French forces broke out of the Anzio bridgehead where they had been bottled up since January. After heavy fighting, the Caesar Line, the last defence before the Italian capital, was broken and the Allies occupied Rome on 4th June. Elsewhere in the Mediterranean theatre, British special forces missions supported Marshal Tito s partisans in attacking the German occupying forces in Yugoslavia. There are chapters on Allied strategic disagreements; the war at sea, and the allied administration of Italy. The text has two appendices, and 20 maps and diagrams.