| Name: | Operation AVALANCHE: The Salerno Landing |
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| 950 | HICKEY, Des, & SMITH, Gus. Operation Avalanche: The Salerno Landings, 1943. 379p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Heinemann; New York: McGraw Hill, 1983. ISBN: 0434391808.
Mainly concerned with the brutal land battle and relying heavily on unpublished war diaries, it gives a good account of this critical assault which nearly failed. Published in paperback as Salerno 1943: Gulf of Hell. |
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| 951 | KONSTAM, Angus. Salerno 1943: The Allied Invasion of Italy (Campaign Chronicles). xiv, 172p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2007. ISBN: 184415517X.
A day by day account of the first ten days of the landings with good coverage of naval support. |
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| 952 | MASON, David. Salerno: Foothold in Europe (Pan/Ballantine Illustrated History of World War II). 160p., bibliog., illus. London: Pan; New York: Ballantine, 1972. ISBN: 0345097335.
A brief account of the landing and subsequent battles. |
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| 953 | MORRIS, Eric. Salerno: A Military Fiasco. 358p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hutchinson; New York: Stein & Day, 1983. ISBN: 0091537207.
A harsh critique of the battle. |
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| 954 | POND, Hugh. Salerno. 256p., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1961; Boston: Little Brown, 1962.
Naval bombardments helped snatch a victory in a close-fought battle which is fully described. |
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| 955 | WERSTEIN, Irving. The Battle of Salerno. vi, 151p., bibliog., illus. New York: Crowell, [1965].
An American view of the landings on the Italian mainland. |
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| 4327 | ATKINSON, Rick. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy, Volume 2). xiv, 791 p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Little Brown; New York: Holt, 2007. ISBN: 0316725609. An American view, with some relevant naval coverage. |
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| 4441 | PEARSE, Anthony. From Stormy Seas to Calmer Waters: Sailor At Sea, Salesman Ashore. 68p., illus. Studley: Brewin, 2008. ISBN: 1858584272. Brief memoir by a seaman officer who after Pangbourne served in Warspite as a midshipman which he joined on the west coast of Canada before she proceeded via Australia to join the Eastern Fleet. He was with her at Salerno when she was struck by a German glider bomb. After a navigation course at Dryad he served in Bermuda and West Africa before being sent home for his sub's courses. As a Lieutenant he joined the Battle Class destroyer Gravelines, building at Cammell Laird's in Greenock. |
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| 4575 | WELCH, Ken. A Sailor at War 1939-1945. 174p., illus. Kindle e-book, 2014 The personal memories of Albert Edward Welch, the author’s father, who served on Mauritius, Capetown, Widnes and Centurion mainly in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean, as well as D-Day. A fairly bland if accurate account enlivened with a handful of personal anecdotes. |
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| 5061 | MACE, Martin & GREHAN, John. The War in Italy 1943-1944. xii, 292p. illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2015. ISBN: 9781783462131. Reprints four despatches from the London Gazette with a brief introduction, namely 38205, the Conquest of Sicily by Viscount Alexander; 38895, the Invasion of Sicily by Sir Andrew Cunningham; 38899, the Landings in the Gulf of Salerno by Sir Andrew Cunningham; and 38937, and the Campaign in Italy by Lord Alexander, which occupies two-thirds of the book. |
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