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Title Allied fighting effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945 / edited by Andrew L. Hargreaves, Patrick J. Rose, Matthew C. Ford
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 261 pages .)
Series History of warfare, 1385-7827 ; v. 99
History of warfare ; v. 99.
Contents Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Andrew Hargreaves, Patrick Rose and Matthew Ford; chapter 1; Coalition Air-Land Doctrine in the North African Campaign: Moving Towards a Single Concept of Operations, June 1942 -- March 1943; James Hudson; chapter 2; A Blueprint for Success: Army-Air Force Co-operation and the Battle for the Mareth Line, 19-29 March 1943; Ross Mahoney; chapter 3; The Fusion of the North African armée de l'air and the FAFL after Operation TORCH, November 1942 -- May 1944; Paul Lemaire; chapter 4
"When Opportunity Arises": British Airborne Operations in the Mediterranean, 1941-1944John Greenacre; chapter 5; Rearguard Action: Eighth Army's Tactical Response to the German Evacuation of Sicily, July -- August 1943; Kevin Jones; chapter 6; Indian Army Training for the Italian Campaign and Lessons Learnt; Alan Jeffreys; chapter 7; Learning on the Job: Training the Brazilians for Combat in the Gothic Line; Cesar Campiani Maximiano; chapter 8; The Quartermaster Corps in the Mediterranean: A Motorized Logistics System; Grant T. Weller; chapter 9
British Army Communications in North Africa and Italy from Operation TORCH to the Capture of RomeSimon Godfrey; chapter 10; Failures in Command and Control: The Experience of 4th Indian Division at the Second Battle of Cassino, February 1944; Christopher Mann; chapter 11; Reassessing British Army Command: XIII British Corps in the Fourth Battle of Cassino, May -- July 1944; Patrick Rose; chapter 12; Learning to Exploit Depth: The Application, Evolution and Value of Allied Special Forces in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1945; Andrew Hargreaves; Conclusion
Summary Allied Fighting Effectiveness is a collection of scholarly papers focusing on a variety of different aspects of the major campaigns of North Africa, Sicily and Italy, ranging from operation TORCH to the end of the war in Europe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Mediterranean Region.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North.
Unified operations (Military science) -- History -- 20th century
Combined operations (Military science) -- History -- 20th century
Tactics -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Combined operations (Military science)
Military campaigns
Tactics
Unified operations (Military science)
North Africa
Mediterranean Region
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hargreaves, Andrew L., 1981- editor.
Rose, Patrick J., editor.
Ford, Matthew C., editor.
ISBN 9004255702
9789004255708