| Name: | Operation SHINGLE: The Anzio Landing |
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Documents: 9
| 956 | BLACKWELL, Ian. Anzio (Battleground Europe). 192p., illus., index Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2006. ISBN: 1844154734.
One of the series with a basic account of the assault and some information on the state of the battlefields and monuments today. |
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| 957 | BREUER, William. Agony at Anzio: The Allies' Most Controversial Operation of World War II. xii, 258p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hale, 1985. ISBN: 0709037104.
A popular account from a US Army perspective. |
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| 958 | CLARK, Lloyd. Anzio: The Friction of War. Italy and the Battle for Rome 1944. xxiv, 392p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Headline, 2006. ISBN: 0755314204.
An excellent up to date account, but with limited naval material. |
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| 959 | D'ESTE, Carlo. Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome. ix, 566p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. ISBN: 006092148X.
Another excellent work by this American military historian. It has only a little relevant naval material. |
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| 960 | HIBBERT, Christopher. Anzio: The Bid for Rome (Purnell’s History of the Second World War, Battle Book 15). 160p., bibliog., illus. London: Macdonald; New York: Ballantine, 1970. ISBN: 0356034755.
Well-illustrated, but mainly concerned with the land battle. |
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| 961 | VAUGHAN-THOMAS, Wynford. Anzio. xii, 243p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Longmans Green; New York: Holt Rinehart, 1961.
A BBC war correspondent gives a telling account of the assault which turned into a besieged beachhead. Little on the naval role. |
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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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| 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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