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A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Four: Sicily and Italy to the fall of Rome 14 May, 1943 - 5 June, 1944 by Giovanni Massimello, Andy Thomas, Frank Olynyk, Russell Guest, Winifred Bock, Christopher Shores (Hardcover, 2018)

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The fourth volume in this momentous series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria which led to its surrender and occupation achieved almost by air attack alone. The account continues with the ultimately successful, but at times very hard fought, invasions of Sicily and southern Italy as burgeoning Allied air power, now with full US involvement, increasingly dominated the skies overhead. The successive occupations of Sardinia and Corsica are also covered in detail. This volume, then, is essentially the story of the tactical air forces up to the point when Rome was occupied, just at the same time as the Normandy landings were occurring in north-west France. In its pages are found what can justifiably be considered the story of 'the soldiers' air force'. Frequently overlooked by more immediate newsworthy events elsewhere, their struggle was often of an equally Homeric nature. With regards to the long-range tactical role of the Allied heavy bombers, only the period from May to October is examined herein, while they remained based in North Africa. Thus the period from November 1943 when the US 15th Air Force was formed to pursue the strategic air offensive against the Reich, together with the RAF's 205 Group of night bombers, will be covered in a future (sixth) volume. Volume Five will deal with the rest of the tactical war in Italy and Greece, over the Adriatic and Aegean, and with the entry into the South of France to join forces advancing southwards from Normandy. AUTHORS: Christopher Shores lives in Dorset and is a prolific and much acclaimed writer on military aviation history, now working at the head of a formidable team of dedicated researchers, each an expert in their own right. In this particular volume he has been able to call on the resources of Giovanni Massimello (Italian), Russell Guest (Australian), Frank Olynyk (American), Winfried Bock (German) and Andy Thomas, to give as complete a picture as is possible of the struggle for supremacy in the desert skies.

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Grub Street Publishing
ISBN-13
9781911621102
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Giovanni Massimello, Andy Thomas, Frank Olynyk, Russell Guest, Winifred Bock, Christopher Shores
Publication Name
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Four: Sicily and Italy to the fall of Rome 14 May, 1943 - 5 June, 1944
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Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Government, History
Publication Year
2018
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Textbook
Number of Pages
680 Pages

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240mm
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170mm

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Christopher Shores, Frank Olynyk, Andy Thomas, Russell Guest, Winifred Bock, Giovanni Massimello
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United Kingdom

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A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Four: Sicily and Italy to the fall of Rome 14 May, 1943 - 5 June, 1944 by Giovanni Massimello, Andy Thomas, Frank Olynyk, Russell Guest, Winifred Bock, Christopher Shores (Hardcover, 2018)

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