Buy this book on-line HICKEY, DES and SMITH, GUS: : OPERATION AVALANCHE: THE SALERNO LANDINGS,1943LONDON.HEINEMANN,1983. ISBN 0434334200.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj.B/w lettered,illustrated clean,glossy laminated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges - no major nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing,to head+foot of spine/backstrip which is lightly sunned. Top edge slightly aged/darkened,fore-edge slightly cleaner and brighter; contents bright,tight and clean with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners. Bright,clean,red cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,27-379pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,contents/illus/maps lists/tables, Salerno: The Command Structure,before Salerno,Pts 1-4 comprising 28 chapters, After Naples,16pp contemporary b/w photographs throughout the text,6 b/w maps between pp21/26,a bibliography,chapter notes,4pp blanks,and an index.
Forty years after,the Allied landings on the Italian coast at Salerno before dawn on 9 September 1943 seem a part of one of the half-forgotten campaigns of the Second World War.Yet it was in its day the largest amphibious invasion in history,and it barely escaped becoming the Allies' costliest blunder.Codenamed "Avalanche", the operation under U.S. General Mark Clark involved 500 ships and 165,000 British and American servicemen in the hazardous attempt to establish on the mainland of Occupied Europe a beachhead ringed by jagged mountains where large concentrations of Hitler's Wehrmacht - the best-organized,best-equipped,most battle-proven army in the world - were securely dug into superb defensive positions.Mark Clark predicted that "Avalanche" would achieve its major objective,the capture of
Naples,within three days.It was a bad miscalculation."Avalanche" lasted for twenty-one desperate days and for a time threatened to become a greater debacle than Gallipoli or Dunkirk.Its human cost: 25,000 soldiers and civilians dead, wounded or missing.What went wrong? Was Eisenhower's faith in Clark misplaced? Was Clark's offensive strategy at fault? Was General Dawley, the Sixth Corps commander, the Allied scapegoat? Was the entire invasion a tactical error? This book recreates those twenty-one critical days to provide some brutal answers.The authors have interviewed scores of officers, fighting men and civilians - Allied,German
and Italian.They have drawn on a wealth of military documents and contemporary reports and on hitherto unpublished war diaries to tell the story of Salerno in a graphic,narrative style that brings home the drama of combat and the cruel demands made upon troops,commanders and the civilian population.
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