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Flawed Commanders and Strategy in the Battles for Italy, 1943–45 Kindle Edition

by Andrew Sangster (Author), Pier Paolo Battistelli (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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"The authors offer a very different perspective on this campaign and are very frank in their assessment of the performance of the Allies and Germans on many levels." — New York Journal of Books

Wars never run according to plan, perhaps never more so than during the Italian campaign, 1943–45, where necessary coordination between the different armies added additional complexity to Allied plans. Errors in the strategies, tactics, the coalition tensions, and operations at campaign command level can clearly be seen in firsthand accounts of the period. This new account examines the Italian campaign, from Sicily to surrender in 1945, exploring the strategy, intentions, motives, plans, and deeds. It then offers a detailed insight into the five commanders who led the battles in Italy—the two British commanders, Montgomery and Alexander; two American, Patton and Clark; and the leading German commander, Field Marshal Kesselring.

Their personal notes and accounts, taken alongside archival material, provides some surprising conclusions—Montgomery was not quite the master of war he is portrayed as; Patton had serious flaws, exposed by wasting men’s lives to save a relative and overlooking the shooting of prisoners of war; Clark lost lives to bolster his image; Alexander the gentleman was far too vague to be effective as a senior leader. Meanwhile, condemned war criminal Kesselring appears to be the most efficient and also, like Alexander, one of the most popular leaders.

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"The authors offer a very different perspective on this campaign and are very frank in their assessment of the performance of the Allies and Germans on many levels."
New York Journal of Books

"...causes you to consider alternate options for the invasion of Sicily and Italy."
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"...an iconoclastic study that is a remarkable work of seminal scholarship." --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

About the Author

Dr Andrew Sangster holds his doctorate in Modern European History as well as degrees in Law, Theology, History and English. He has written several biographies including Lord Alan Brooke, Beria, Franco, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, a history of France 1936–46 and an account of the main European Secret Services before 1939.

Dr Pier Paolo Battistelli gained an MA degree in the University of Perugia, Italy, and was awarded a Ph.D. degree at the University of Padua, Italy, with a thesis on the German–Italian military partnership during WWII. Dr. Battistelli is active as a translator, a military history consultant, and author, publishing a number of books on different subjects of history related to WWII. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BVMKQD9M
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Casemate (February 23, 2023)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 23, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8727 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 439 pages

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- #2,071 in Biographies of World War II
- #6,605 in Military Strategy History (Books)

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My Doctorate is in Modern European history, and I often ease the tension of the ghastly nature of my research into twentieth century history by researching people and events little known about. This propelled me to write on Beria, Stalin’s head of the NKVD, and then Mussolini’s son-in-law and foreign minister Ciano executed by his father-in-law. I wrote on Field Marshal Alan Brooke who is hardly mentioned in general history books but was Churchill’s right-hand man in strategy. This led me to Churchill’s Chief-of-Staff General Pug Ismay of whom little was known. I was equally fascinated by the defendants at the Nuremberg Trial asking who each one was, what they did to land up in court. Nearly all my books are about the lesser known but important figures in history, and I write not to make money but out of sheer curiosity.