Decisive Campaigns of the Second World War by John Gooch

Author:John Gooch [Gooch, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780714640709
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1990-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. J.M. D’Hoop, ‘Les projets d'intervention des Allies en Mediterranee’, in La guerre en Mediterranee (1939–1945) (Paris: CNRS, 1971), pp.237–255 and the bibliography cited there. Also J.R.M. Butler, Grand Strategy (London: HMSO, 1957), II, pp.64–70.

2. Martin van Creveld, Supplying War-Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1977), pp. 181–201.

3. Michael Howard, ‘La Mediterranee et la strategic britannique au cours de la deuxieme guerre mondiale’, in La guerre en Mediterranee (1939–1945), pp.23–9. See also ibid., pp.24,27,33.

4. For hints that it would have been possible to defend the petroleum resources of the Middle East more economically and without seeking spectacular military victories, see Howard, op.cit., p.27; also the figures for the shipments of men and materials examined in Williamson Murray, ‘British Military Effectiveness in the Second World War’, in A.R. Millett and W. Murray (eds.), Military Effectiveness (Boston MA: Allen & Unwin, 1988), III, p.103.

5. See Lucio Ceva, Le forze armate (Turin: UTET, 1981), pp.249–53,306 and also 51–2; and Ceva, La condotta italiana della guerra (Milan: Feltrinelli, 1975), pp.39–41.

6. R. Riccio, Italian Tanks and Fighting Vehicles of World War 2 (Henley-on Thames: Pique Publications, 1975), pp.18–21.

7. Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War (London: Cassell, 1949), II, p.370.

8. For the characteristics of the Mil see Riccio op. cit., pp.24–5. For automobiles, see Archivio dell ‘Ufficio Storico dell’ Esercito, C.S.-S.M.G. 10, 8.

9. B.H. Liddell Hart, The Tanks (London: Cassell 1959), II, pp.486–7,496–7.1.S.O. Playfair, The Mediterranean and the Middle East (London: HMSO, 1960); III, pp.434–4, especially 442 and 444. S. Bidwell and D. Graham, Fire-Power (London: Allen & Unwin, 1982), p. 182. Among the British Cruiser tanks, the A-13 was the most numerous: A.J. Smithers, Rude Mechanicals (London: Leo Cooper, 1987), p.68.

10. R.M. Ogorkiewicz, Armour (London: Stevens & Sons 1960), p.241.

11. Playfair, op. cit., I (1954), p.364; II, p.3; II (1960), p.27.

12. T.G. Needham in B. Perret, Through Mud and Blood-Infantry Tank Operations in World War II (London: Hale, 1975), p.59. See also A.J. Smithers, op. cit., p.69 and H. Maule, Spearhead General – The Epic Story of General Sir Frank Messervy and his Men in Eritrea, North Africa and Burma (London: Odhams, 1961), pp.39–41.

13. C.N. Barclay, Against Great Odds (Liverpool: Blake & Mackenzie, 1955), pp.48. I.S.O. Playfair, op. cit., I, p.286. G. Long, To Benghazi (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1961), pp. 184–9.

14. Liddell Hart, op. cit., II, p.59.

15. Alan Moorehead, African Trilogy (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1944); and the same author's The Desert War, Milan: Garzanti, 1968 (Italian translation; originally published in English 1965).

16. Moorehead, The Desert War, p.35.

17. MacGregor Knox, Mussolini Unleashed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), p.156.

18. Moorehead, The Desert War, p.35.

19. Ibid., pp.11,19.

20. Emilio Lussu, Vn anno sull’Altopiano (Turin: Einaudi, 1964) (1st edition Paris, 1938), passim.

21. R. Migliavacca, La ‘Folgore’ nella battaglia di El Alamein (Milan: Auriga, 1983) (1st edition 1972), pp.67, 93.

22. G. Berto, Guerra in camicia nera (Milan: Garzanti 1969) (1st edition 1955), p.145.

23. The Piedmontese newspaper L’Opinione of 17 Aug. 1855, at a time when the Piedmontese army was fighting alongside the English and French in

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