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Flawed Commanders and Strategy in the Battles for Italy, 1943-45 (Hardcover)
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Flawed Commanders and Strategy in the Battles for Italy, 1943-45 (Hardcover)
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Wars never run according to plan, perhaps never more so than during
the Italian campaign, 1943-45, where necessary coordination between
the different armies added additional complexity to Allied plans.
Errors in the strategies, tactics, the coalition tensions, and
operations at campaign command level can be clearly seen in
first-hand accounts of the period. This new account examines the
Italian campaign, from Sicily to surrender in 1945, exploring the
strategy, intentions, motives, plans, and deeds. It then offers a
detailed insight into the five commanders who led the battles in
Italy - the two British commanders: Montgomery and Alexander; two
American: Patton and Clark; and the leading German commander, Field
Marshal Kesselring. Their personal notes and accounts, taken
alongside archival material, provides some surprising conclusions -
Montgomery was not quite the master of war he is portrayed as;
Patton had serious flaws, exposed by wasting men's lives to save a
relative and overlooking the shooting of prisoners of war; Clark
lost lives to bolster his image; Alexander the gentleman was far
too vague to be effective as a senior leader. Meanwhile, condemned
war criminal Kesselring appears to be the most efficient and also,
like Alexander, one of the most popular leaders.
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