Jackson Brig (4 results)

Condition: New. 2004 N&M Press reprint (of original pub). SB. xi + 520pp with 20 maps and diagrams. and numerous contemporary photos.Published Price £22 The sixth in the eight volumes describing the Mediterranean a Middle Eastern theatres in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War narrates the campaign in Italy from March to June 1944. After the Allies bogged down at Anzio and Monte Cassino, General Alexander determined on a Spring offensive - Operation Diadem - to take Monte Cassino, break the German defences of the Gustav Line, and capture Rome. The Line was successfully breached by the British Eighth and the US Fifth Armies within days of the offensiveâs opening and the subsidiary âHitler Lineâ was also broken. As a follow-up, American, Canadian and French forces broke out of the Anzio bridgehead where they had been bottled up since January. After heavy fighting, the Caesar Line, the last defence before the Italian capital, was broken and the Allies occupied Rome on 4th June. Elsewhere in the Mediterranean theatre, British special forces missions supported Marshal Titoâs partisans in attacking the German occupying forces in Yugoslavia. There are chapters on Allied strategic disagreements; the war at sea, and the allied administration of Italy. The text has two appendices, and 20 maps and diagrams.

Revised and enlarged edition. Prompted by the rediscovery of a contemporary eighteenth century French pamphlet, 'Memoire Justifiicatif', written by Brest de la Chaussee.Virtually every page of the first edition has had to be re-written and revised in some way." Pp.xvi/289, black & white frontispiece + 28 further illustrations, owner's name and pencil notationl to front free endpaper. Red cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

softcover. Condition: very good. no jacket. Signed. RARE slim SIGNED stapled paperback pamphlet, privately printed, 1976. 22pp. Signed by Jackson to the title page without personal inscription. Very slight creasing to covers. Very good signed copy.

3 VOLUME SET, super octavo, green glossy card covers, white & yellow lettering to spines & front covers, illus prelims & terminals, xi-xiv + 492-537pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, light soiling to page edges, light chafing to covers).