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Salerno to the Gustav Line, 1943–1944: Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives (Images of War)

by Jon Diamond Dr.

In September 1943, shortly after the conquest of Sicily, the Allied armies made amphibious assaults on the Italian Mainland at Calabria, Taranto and along the Gulf of Salerno beaches. The Italian Government quickly capitulated but the Germans fought on. Although the British XIII Corps and 1st Airbornes attacks were largely uncontested in Calabria and Taranto, the Allied Fifth Armys beachheads at Salerno underwent savage Nazi counterattacks.After Salerno, the Allied Fifth and Eighth Armies continued their advance north initially to the ports of Naples and Bari before struggling through Italian massifs, held up by a determined enemy and unfavorable ground and weather. In January 1944, the Fifth Armys X, II and French Expeditionary Corps attacked across the Garigliano and Rapido Rivers with the aim of breaking through the Gustav Line fortifications. The Nazi defense at the town of Cassino just succeeded in halting the two-week Allied attack during First Battle of Cassino and the Gustav Line was to be the scene of fierce fighting for months.

Salerno: 9 September - 6 October 1943

by Anon

Illustrated with 18 maps and 24 IllustrationsEARLY IN SEPTEMBER 1943, British and American armies invaded southern Italy, striking at the heart of a major Axis nation and breaching Hitler's "Fortress Europe." Behind the invasion lay long months of hard-won Allied victories. The Axis was cleared out of Africa in May, when British and American armies annihilated the German and Italian forces cornered in Tunisia. Sicily, the stepping stone from Africa to Europe, was next conquered in a 38-day battle, and on 17 August the last of its German garrison fled across the Strait of Messina to the Italian mainland. On 3 September the British Eighth Army crossed the Strait in pursuit and drove up the Calabrian Peninsula. Coordinated with the Eighth Army's attack, Allied landings at Salerno by the United States Fifth Army and at Taranto by the British 1 Airborne Division were made on 9 September. In the Salerno landings, strong American forces were fighting on the continent of Europe for the first time since 1918.Even before the beginnings of the Sicilian operations, the staffs of Allied land, naval, and air forces had been planning an invasion of Italy. Once established on the Italian mainland, we might hope to secure complete naval and aerial domination of the Mediterranean and to obtain strategic ports and airfields for future operations against continental Europe. If we could knock Italy out of the war, we would force the Germans to retreat north of the Alps or to use in Italy armies which might be fighting on the Russian front.Under the command of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, the Fifth Army, a great Allied force composed of the British 10 Corps and the United States VI Corps, carried out the first large scale invasion of the European mainland and secured a firm base for future operations in Italy. Salerno: The American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturno is an account of the American forces who landed on the beaches in the Gulf of Salerno.

Salient Points Five: Ypres & Picardy, 1914–18 (Cameos of the Western Front #5)

by Ted Smith Tony Spagnoly

As with previous books in the series, 'Salient Points 5' features a number of stories of the individuals and units taking part in these Great War actions. Included in this edition are the London Irish at Hollebeke, the 2nd Grenadier Guards at Klien-Zillebeke, the birth of the notorious Birdcage at Polegsteert, the fate of 2nd/Lt. Paul J Rodocanachi R F C at Torreken Farm, Poet Roland Leightons death near Gommecourt Wood, the 10th, 11th and 13th Cheshires at St Yves and Le Gheer, the 7th Inniskillings Fusiliers at Wytschaete, the London Rifle Brigade at Ploegsteert and the 2nd Royal Welch at Loos. Also included are two stories covering recent events concerning the military burials of the remains of two Lancashire Fusiliers at Prowse Point Military Cemetery and a reflective wander around the Ypres Town Cemetery and Extension. All bring to the Great War enthusiast a more personalized view of the men, the events in which they took part and the areas where they were involved.

Salient Points Four: Ypres & Picardy, 1914–18 (Cameos of the Western Front #4)

by Ted Smith Tony Spagnoly

Concentrating on the Ploegsteert and Neuve Eglise sectors in Belgium, this book features stories on such well known figures as sculptor Charles Sargent Jagger, ARA ; R Poulton Palmer and 'Tanky' Turner, great friends and rugby football captains of England and Scotland respectively; as well the discovery and eventual burial of a Lancashire Fuslier who was killed in action in 1914; the research leading to the erection in 2002 of a 'Believed to be buried' headstone in the Strand cemetery of an Australian killed in action at Messines in 1917; the action in 1914 that initiated the birth of the infamous 'Birdcage' on the western edge of Ploegsteert Wood and other stories of interest to enthusiasts of the Great War.Another in the Cameos of the Western Front series on men, minor actions and battlefield sites, this book, like its predecessors is an ideal 'companion' for the battlefield visitor.

Salient Points One: Ypres Sector, 1914–18 (Cameos of the Western Front #1)

by Ted Smith Tony Spagnoly

A collection of stories of men, their units and the actions they took part in during the conflict of 1914–1918, together with stories other points of interest along the old Western Front. Each story is supported with photographs and maps showing the area of the action as it was then, and is today. The content feature-titles are: Larch Wood (Railway Cuttings) Cemetery; Second Lieutenant Keith Rae; Bellewaarde Farm; Major William Redmond; H. H. Prince Maurice of Battenberg; Major Cropper?s Craters; Sergeant Harry Combes D.C.M., R.G.A.; A Cemetery Lost; A Scottish Soldier; Along the Messines Ridge; Halloween Night 1914; A Bloodless Victory; Old Bill is Born; The Yanks are Coming; The Lost Mines of Messines; Hospitalization South of Poperinghe and Canada at Ypres.

Salient Points Three: Ypres & Picardy 1914–18 (Cameos of the Western Front #3)

by Ted Smith Tony Spagnoly

The third in the series of a collection of stories about the men the actions and the places of interest for the battlefield visitor to the old Western Front. This book features:- A Soldier for a Year (Private David Ross); - A Very British Grenadier (Captain Pixley); - An Artist at War (Ernest Carlos); - Into Battle - Julian of the Ard Ead Julian Grenfell); - Adolf Hitler at Ypres; - Michael OLeary V.C. The Wild Colonial Boy; - No Prisoners for The Dorsets (The Dorsetshire Regiment at Hill 60); - Tanks at St. Julien; - Corporal McBride and the 2nd Worcesters at Neuve Eglise; - Triumph and Tragedy (The 6th DCLI at Sanctuary/Zouave woods 1915) and The Five Forgotten Mines of Messines (unexploded - and four of them still there, the other 'blew' in 1955).

Salient Points Two: Ypres Sector, 1914–18 (Cameos of the Western Front #2)

by Ted Smith Tony Spagnoly

Another group of stories in the Salient Points series. A collection of stories of men, their units and the actions they took part in during the conflict of 1914–1918, together with stories other points of interest along the old Western Front. Each story is supported with photographs and maps showing the area of the action as it was then, and is today. The content feature-titles are: The Black Watch; Lord Worsley at Zandvoorde; The 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers at Zandvoorde; The Worcesters and the Welsh at Gheluvelt in 1914; The Youngest Soldier; Major Lanoe Hawker at Abeele Aerodrome; 16th Battalion (The Canadian Scottish) at Kichener Wood; Pond Farm; Fray Bentos at Hill 35; The Liverpool Irish at Schuler Galleries; The O'Donnell Twins; New Zealand at the village of Messines; Reconciliation at Broodseinde.

Salisbury in the Great War (Your Towns & Cities in the Great War)

by Neil G. Hall

The war invisibly regulated our lives, commented a Salisbury resident when recalling the calamity, now known as the Great War. Much of life in the city with its ancient cathedral, the finest spire in England, medieval New Town built on chequers an

Sally Brady's Italian Adventure: A Novel

by Christina Lynch

"A fresh breeze of wit and glamour." —The Wall Street Journal"Richly evocative of the charms and contradictions of Italy. Brava!” —Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author"A gorgeously entertaining story about a spirited woman during wartime that manages to be a clever caper at times but taut and profound at others"* What if you found yourself in the middle of a war armed only with lipstick and a sense of humor? Abandoned as a child in Los Angeles in 1931, dust bowl refugee Sally Brady convinces a Hollywood movie star to adopt her, and grows up to be an effervescent gossip columnist secretly satirizing Europe’s upper crust. By 1940 saucy Sally is conquering Fascist-era Rome with cheek and charm. A good deed leaves Sally stranded in wartime Italy, brandishing a biting wit, a fake passport, and an elastic sense of right and wrong. To save her friends and find her way home through a land of besieged castles and villas, Sally must combat tragedy with comedy, tie up pompous bureaucrats in their own red tape, force the cruel to be kind, and unravel the mystery, weight, and meaning of family. Heir to Odysseus’s wiles and Candide’s optimism, Sally Brady is a heroine for the 21st century.

Salmagundi Vietnam

by Lee Blair Don Pratt

This collection of some 200 anecdotes emanating from the war in Vietnam presents a realistic picture of the ups and downs of American's Best serving a tour in Vietnam. <P><P>A potpourri of booze, sex, satire, humor, and, of course, not to be forgotten, fire-fights with "Charlie," and death.Author's say "when the hard-core Bonnie Rat returns home from a tour in Vietnam, he also has no qualms about telling it how it is." This is precisely what the authors have done in Salmagundi Vietnam. Often their accounts dwell on the ugly side of the war, but for the most part they have included a good measure of good ol' GI humor, that special virtue of the American fighting man that enables him to make the most of any situation.

Salt of the Earth

by Jozef Wittlin

The classic pacifist novel by a major Polish writer, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize'Only the villages are asleep, the eternal reservoir of all kinds of soldiery, the inexhaustible source of physical strength'The villagers of the Carpathian mountains lead a simple life at the beginning of the twentieth century - much as they have always done. They are isolated and remote, and the advances of the outside world have not touched them. Among them - Piotr, a bandy-legged peasant, whose 'entire life involved carrying things'. A notional subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, all he wants in life is an official railway cap, a cottage with a mouse-trap and cheese, and a bride with a dowry.But then the First World War comes to the mountains, and Piotr is drafted into the army. Unwilling, uncomprehending, the bewildered Piotr is forced to fight a war he does not understand - against his national as well as his personal interest.In a new translation, authorised by the author's daughter, Salt of the Earth is a strongly pacifist novel inspired by the Odyssey, about the consequences of war on ordinary men.

Salt to the Sea

by Ruta Sepetys

<P>The author of <i>Between Shades of Gray</i> returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's most devastating--yet unknown--tragedies. <P>In 1945, World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia, and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, almost all of them with something to hide. Among them are Joana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en route to the ship that promises salvation, the Wilhelm Gustloff. Forced by circumstance to unite, the three find their strength, courage, and trust in each other tested with each step closer toward safety. Just when it seems freedom is within their grasp, tragedy strikes. Not country, nor culture, nor status matter as all ten thousand people aboard must fight for the same thing: survival. <P>Told in alternating points of view, and perfect for fans of Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>All the Light We Cannot See</i>, Erik Larson's critically acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller <i>Dead Wake</i>, and Elizabeth Wein's Printz Honor Book <i>Code Name Verity</i>, this masterful work of historical fiction is inspired by the real-life tragedy that was the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff--the greatest maritime disaster in history. As she did in <i>Between Shades of Gray</i>, Ruta Sepetys unearths a shockingly little-known casualty of a gruesome war, and proves that humanity can prevail, even in the darkest of hours.

Saltwater Leadership

by Robert O. Wray Jr.

Designed for busy junior officers in the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine, this primer teaches the basics of leadership in five sequential steps. It begins with a useful overview of major leadership studies, followed by an informative summary of the wisdom of 380 senior sea-going officers regarding those leadership attributes required of the junior officer. One chapter includes sea stories from officers of varied backgrounds, each offering a leadership lesson that was learned the hard way. Along with this sage advice from experienced sea-service officers, the book offers a final chapter that helps readers build personalized plans to improve their own leadership skills. Such a practical guide is certain to turn young officers into successful leaders.

Salud y Shalom: Conversations with Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

by Joseph Butwin

Jewish volunteers made up almost one-third of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (ALB) during the Spanish Civil War. Most belonged to a Communist Party focused on the antifascist goals of the Popular Front and faithful to the internationalist idea of erasing ethnicity, including Jewish ethnicity. Joseph Butwin’s oral history presents conversations with ten Jewish veterans of the ALB. Recorded from 1992–94 in the wake of European communism’s collapse, the interviews explore the milieus that formed the volunteers. Immigrants established the secular Yiddish-speaking socialism that became a part of many Jewish American communities. Their children, reacting to economic depression and the rise of fascism, enlisted in the ALB. Butwin follows their stories from their youthful motives and choices through their lives as Jews and leftists, and records the reckonings that took place as they reflected on their past. Insightful and revealing, Salud y Shalom explores the forces of identity and history that led young Jewish leftists to fight fascism.

Salute of Guns

by Donald Boyd

A British World War I veteran details artillery’s role in the Great War, life on the Western Front, and soldier morale in this classic memoir.Salute of Guns covers a story that is almost forgotten: Artillery was the decisive weapon of the Great War. The developments in artillery tactics, equipment and shells played a major role in the final Allied victory. British artillery was in the forefront of all those changes. This book gives the reader a dramatic insight into the story of artillery in the First World War.Donald Boyd joined his local Territorial Force artillery unit in September 1914. Commissioned in 1915, he learnt his trade in France from unsympathetic pre-war Indian Army regulars who did not understand how war was changing. From 1916 to 1918 he took part in the Western Front’s major battles, including the Somme, Third Ypres, Cambrai and the 1918 offensives. The stress of an artillery subaltern’s existence, observing in the front line, keeping the guns in action at a battery position or leading ammunition columns up tracks exposed to shellfire brought him to nervous collapse twice. The author is frank about his problems and convincingly conveys the relationships within his sub-unit which helped or hindered his struggle to stay in the front line.A new foreword by Michael Orr sets Boyd’s memoir in context and documents its reliability from the archives.Praise for Salute of Guns“If I had to name the best record of Western Front fighting I should, on the whole, choose Donald Boyd’s Salute of Guns as the one that has dealt most faithfully with the most difficult to recall of all its aspects—contemporary morale.” —Robert Graves“An excellent account of service by a man dealing with the fear and mental fatigue of a long war who yet describes his military activities with great clarity. It is particularly valuable as such memoirs from the Royal Regiment are few. Pen & Sword are to be congratulated.” —British Commission for Military History

Salvada: La serie Salvada (Salvada #1)

by Lorhainne Eckhart

“Un apasionado cuento de amor durante la guerra de Iraq.” —“Eckhart lo golpea a uno fuera del ring con esta gran historia.” RT Book Reviews —“¡Raptado! Está bien, así me tienes desde la primera página”Katy M. —“Dios bendiga a nuestros hombres en uniforme! Se necesita una tragedia horrible, pero real y muestra cómo el amor puede ser un verdadero sanador. ¡Necesitamos más hombres como el Capitán!” Reviewer, Spring Hale “Al crecer soñé de que algún día me enamoraría, me casaría y formaría una familia. Entonces, una noche me llevaron. Pero sobreviví, escapé y fui salvada. Eric no me vio como algo dañado. Él no vio a mi bebé como un monstruo. Él me protegió, me mantuvo a salvo ... me salvó.”

Salvador Strike

by Don Pendleton

Federal authorities thought they were about to shut down the American activities of the lethal MS-13 gang for good. But when the star witness And The prosecuting attorney are murdered, The trial of the gang's leaders is in shambles. With legal avenues exhausted and an undercover agent missing deep within the deadly organization, The situation is critical. Mack Bolan is called in to fight fire with fire. But MS-13's leaders have a plan to terrorize suburban America. In order to stop them, Bolan will have to follow their trail deep into the Salvadoran jungle, moving fast and striking hard. Using warrior skills honed in another distant land, The Executioner will show no mercy.

Sam Steele: A Biography

by Rod Macleod

The life of Canada&’s police and military hero is &“a story worth telling. Macleod&’s solid research and clear writing also make it a story worth reading&” (AlbertaPrimeTimes.com). Sam Steele, &“the man who tamed the Gold Rush,&” had a high-profile public career, yet his private life has been closely protected. This biography follows Steele&’s rise from farm boy in backwoods Ontario to the much-lauded Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele. Drawing on the vast Steele archive at the University of Alberta, this comprehensive biography vividly recounts some of the most significant events of the first fifty years of Canadian Confederation—including the founding of the North-West Mounted Police, the opening of the North through the Klondike, and Canada&’s participation in the South African War—from the perspective of a policeman who became a military leader. Impeccably researched and accessibly written, Sam Steele is perfect for anyone interested in Canada&’s early decades.&“Deeply-researched and elegantly written, this book brings alive one of the most intriguing characters of Canadian history who has been undeservedly forgotten.&” —Charlotte Gray, bestselling author of Murdered Midas &“A revealing story of a talented, dedicated Canadian who always strove to do his best for his country.&” —Canadian Military History&“Focusing on its subject&’s life and career, Sam Steele paints a thoughtful portrait of an interesting and important man that, like any good book, raises interesting and important questions . . . this biography is likely to remain the definitive work on Steele&’s life.&” —Canadian Historical Review

Sam Steele: A Biography

by Rod Macleod

The life of Canada&’s police and military hero is &“a story worth telling. Macleod&’s solid research and clear writing also make it a story worth reading&” (AlbertaPrimeTimes.com). Sam Steele, &“the man who tamed the Gold Rush,&” had a high-profile public career, yet his private life has been closely protected. This biography follows Steele&’s rise from farm boy in backwoods Ontario to the much-lauded Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele. Drawing on the vast Steele archive at the University of Alberta, this comprehensive biography vividly recounts some of the most significant events of the first fifty years of Canadian Confederation—including the founding of the North-West Mounted Police, the opening of the North through the Klondike, and Canada&’s participation in the South African War—from the perspective of a policeman who became a military leader. Impeccably researched and accessibly written, Sam Steele is perfect for anyone interested in Canada&’s early decades.&“Deeply-researched and elegantly written, this book brings alive one of the most intriguing characters of Canadian history who has been undeservedly forgotten.&” —Charlotte Gray, bestselling author of Murdered Midas &“A revealing story of a talented, dedicated Canadian who always strove to do his best for his country.&” —Canadian Military History&“Focusing on its subject&’s life and career, Sam Steele paints a thoughtful portrait of an interesting and important man that, like any good book, raises interesting and important questions . . . this biography is likely to remain the definitive work on Steele&’s life.&” —Canadian Historical Review

Sam Steele: An Officer and a Gentleman

by Norman S. Leach

A GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER Had there been no Sam Steele, it has been observed, Hollywood would have had to invent him. Born into the comparative stability of the Victorian era's Pax Britannica, Steele lived to witness the postwar turmoil of the Lost Generation. From humble beginnings in what is now Bracebridge, Ontario, to his knighthood in England two years before his death in 1919, Steele's life epitomized the themes of personal adventure, service to crown and country, and the zeal for modernization and social order that characterized nineteenth-century Canada within the British Empire. Steele's long and storied career threaded through many pivotal moments in Canada’s settlement and development history: the Fenian raids, the expansion of law and order (on horseback and sporting red serge) across the North-West Territories, the exile of Sitting Bull into Canada, the construction of the national railway that welded together the nation, Riel's Rebellion, the Klondike Gold Rush and opening of the North, the Boer War, and the Canada's coming of age during the First World War.

Samir and Yonatan

by Daniella Carmi Yael Lotan

Samir, a Palestinian boy, worries about entering a Jewish hospital in Israel for a knee operation because Jewish soldiers are the enemy who killed his older brother. His healing is more than physical. On the children's ward, Yonatan becomes Samir's friend and offers him new ways of thinking.

Samudra Manthan

by C. Raja Mohan

Rising China and emerging India are becoming major maritime powers. As they build large navies to secure their growing interests, both nations are roiling the waters of the Indo-Pacific-the vast littoral stretching from Africa to Australasia.Invoking a tale from Hindu mythology- Samudra Manthan or "to churn the ocean"-C. Raja Mohan tells the story of a Sino-Indian rivalry spilling over from the Great Himalayas into the Indian and Pacific Oceans. He examines the prospects of mitigating the tensions and constructing a stable Indo-Pacific order.America, the dominant power in the area, is being drawn into the unfolding Sino-Indian competition. Despite the huge differences in the current naval capabilities of China, India, and the United States, Mohan argues that the three countries are locked in a triangular struggle destined to mold the future Indo-Pacific.

Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War: Pepys's Navy White Book and Brooke House Papers

by Pepys Samuel

The two pieces of work which make up this volume were compiled by Pepys in the 1660s. The first is Pepys’s own record of how the Navy Board functioned. It records details of meetings with fellow officers such as Sir William Penn and Sir John Mennes, and how work could be hampered at times by the refusal of an officer to sign a contract or bill as he had not been present at the original discussions.The Navy White Book gives the discussions which took place over a variety of matters, such as, contracts with Sir William Warren, a timber merchant; costs and quality of masts and canvas.The Brooke House Papers deal with the inquiry set up by the House of Commons into the conduct of the Second Dutch War, following the humiliation of the Dutch invasion of 1667, and the inefficiency of the Navy Board. The Brooke House Papers further show Pepys defending the Navy Board’s professionalism and integrity, and also that naval administration during the Second Dutch War was efficient. The Papers also show Charles II ‘s role in protecting the Navy Board, by making his dissatisfaction with the inquiry known, through his disrespectful language and interruptions, as well as his support for Pepys, whom he makes the Board’s spokesman.

Samuel Woods and His Family

by Ruth Woods Dayton

Ruth Woods Dayton's "Samuel Woods and His Family" is an engrossing exploration of one family's journey through the fabric of American history. This meticulously researched and beautifully written narrative delves into the life of Samuel Woods and the legacy he forged through his descendants.Samuel Woods, a pioneering figure of the 18th century, embodies the resilience and determination of early American settlers. Dayton’s vivid portrayal of his life and times offers readers a window into the challenges and triumphs faced by families on the frontier. From the rugged landscapes of early America to the evolving social and political landscapes, Samuel Woods' story is a microcosm of a nation in the making.The book traces the Woods family's roots, providing a rich tapestry of genealogical information interwoven with compelling personal anecdotes. Dayton’s attention to detail brings to life the daily struggles, aspirations, and achievements of the Woods family, painting a comprehensive picture of their contributions to the American narrative. Readers will find themselves immersed in the personal stories of love, loss, and perseverance that define the Woods lineage."Samuel Woods and His Family" is not just a genealogical account; it is a celebration of the enduring human spirit. Dayton’s engaging storytelling captures the essence of family bonds and the enduring legacy of a name carried through generations. Her insightful analysis and historical context illuminate the broader significance of the Woods family's experiences, making this book an invaluable resource for historians and descendants alike.Dayton’s work stands as a testament to the importance of preserving family histories and understanding our roots. It invites readers to reflect on their own heritage and the stories that shape who we are. Whether you are a genealogist, a history enthusiast, or someone seeking to connect with the past, "Samuel Woods and His Family" offers a compelling and enriching read that resonates with the timeless themes of identity, heritage, and family.

Samurai

by Mitsuo Kure

For 700 years Japanese civilization was dominated by a single warrior caste. This project looks at arms, armor and costumes of Samurai men and women over the centuries with specially commissioned photography of reenactors wearing museum-quality clothing.

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