Thomas Mckelvey Cleaver

Mediterranean Sweep

The Usaaf in the Italian Campaign

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Filled with personal accounts of the action, this book details the USAAF's tactical and strategic campaigns in the skies over Italy in World War II.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781472863454
• ISBN-10: 1472863453
• Artikelnr.: 70371871

Autorenporträt

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with his work including the best-selling Osprey titles The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club (2021), Going Downtown (2022), The Cactus Air Force (2022) alongside the late Eric Hammel, Clean Sweep (2023), and most recently Turning The Tide (2024). Tom served in the US Navy in Vietnam and currently lives in Encino, California.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Maps
Foreword by Colonel USAF (Ret.) Ralph Wetterhahn
Author Preface
Chapter One: Opening Bell
Chapter Two: Italy Surrenders
Chapter Three: The Near Disaster of Operation Avalanche
Chapter Four: Kesselring's Toll
Chapter Five: Anzio - The Lost Opportunity
Chapter Six: "USS Corsica"
Chapter Seven: The Colossal Mistake
Chapter Eight: Pursuing The Wehrmacht
Chapter Nine: Those Little Black Flowers That Grow in The Sky
Chapter Ten: The Italian Air Forces
Chapter Eleven: Victory in Italy
Bibliography
Glossary
Index

Rezensionen

Mediterranean Sweep offers a rare and valuable look at one of the least appreciated aspects of the US Army Air Forces' contribution to victory in World War II.