Download or read book Wavell in the Middle East 1939 1941 written by Harold E. Raugh and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterly study of generalship covers two years of intense operational activity during which Field Marshal Wavell, as Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, was at one point conducting no fewer than five campaigns simultaneously. Two of those campaigns will stand in history as truly great victories, and one—the campaign in Greece in 1941—as a source of endless controversy. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., has drawn upon previously unavailable official documents and interviewed or corresponded with a wide range of soldiers who served under Wavell. Raugh shows how Wavell’s early experience as a soldier and budding commander were reflected in his later decision making and shrewd military vision. Although Wavell’s charismatic personality endeared him to all who served under him and earned him the profound respect of his fellows, and even of the enemy, his natural taciturnity brought him into conflict with his political masters. In spite of his enormous military achievements at one of the most critical periods in his country’s history, Wavell has been undeservedly relegated to obscurity—a historical oversight that Raugh corrects with this richly detailed book.
Download or read book Wavell in the Middle East written by Harold E. Raugh and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Wavell in the Middle East 1939 1941 written by Harold E. Raugh and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterly study of generalship covers two years of intense operational activity during which Field Marshal Wavell, as Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, was at one point conducting no fewer than five campaigns simultaneously. Two of those campaigns will stand in history as truly great victories, and one—the campaign in Greece in 1941—as a source of endless controversy. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., has drawn upon previously unavailable official documents and interviewed or corresponded with a wide range of soldiers who served under Wavell. Raugh shows how Wavell’s early experience as a soldier and budding commander were reflected in his later decision making and shrewd military vision. Although Wavell’s charismatic personality endeared him to all who served under him and earned him the profound respect of his fellows, and even of the enemy, his natural taciturnity brought him into conflict with his political masters. In spite of his enormous military achievements at one of the most critical periods in his country’s history, Wavell has been undeservedly relegated to obscurity—a historical oversight that Raugh corrects with this richly detailed book.
Download or read book Wavell in the middle East written by Henry Rowan-Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1940* with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wavell in the Middle East With 63 Illustrations including Portraits and 4 Maps written by Henry Rowan ROBINSON and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wavell in the Middle East With plates Including Portraits and Maps written by Henry Rowan-Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wavell s Campaigns In The Middle East An Analysis Of Operational Art written by Major Lawrence Rucker Snead III and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the United States confronts an uncertain world. The strategic environment has changed. It no longer has one main enemy and a military force to confront that foe. Instead, the United States must be prepared to deal with a multiple of possible threats as its military continues to downsize. This new regional orientation and world situation requires that the US Military be ready to fight simultaneous major regional contingencies to achieve the victories that the American people expect. Therefore, this study examines Field Marshall Wavell’s campaigns in the Middle East in WWII to provide a historical case study of a similar situation. There he had to simultaneously conduct a large number of campaigns and operations over four theaters of operations against different enemies under difficult conditions to achieve strategic objectives. It compares this case study with the current strategic military requirements facing the US and current US Military doctrine to determine if the US is prepared to deal with multiple simultaneous regional contingencies. Finally, this monograph indicates that the US Military needs to update both its National Military Strategy and it’s doctrine in order to be prepared to fight and win multiple simultaneous major regional contingencies in the future. In addition, this study has indicated a number of implications for the conduct of operational art by the US Military.
Download or read book Wavell and the War in the Middle East 1940 1941 written by Michael Carver and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wavell in the Middle East written by Henry Rowan-Robinson and published by London : Hutchinson [1942]. This book was released on 1942 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Modern Pilgrim in Mecca written by Arthur John Byng Wavell and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Arthur John Byng Wavell (1882-1916) was a British military officer, Arabist, and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Born in London, he was educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. In 1900 he joined the Welsh Regiment of the British Army and sailed to British South Africa, where he fought in the Boer War. This was followed by a War Office assignment to map and report on less known British possessions in the region, during which he journeyed across the Kalahari Desert to Victoria Falls. He left the military service in 1906. He then went to British East Africa, where he bought land in Nyali, now a suburb of Mombasa, Kenya. It was here that he began a sisal plantation, learned Arabic, and "conceived of the idea of visiting the forbidden Mohammedan City of Mecca in disguise." A Modern Pilgrim in Mecca recounts Wavell's pilgrimage to Muslim holy sites in present-day Saudi Arabia in 1908-9. Travelling on a Turkish passport and disguised as a Zanzibari by the name of Ali bin Mohammed, Wavell first left London for Marseille, where he met with his two Muslim companions, a Mombasa-based Zanzibari and a Berlin-based Syrian. From Genoa they boarded a ship to Alexandria and later to Beirut, and from there they took the train to Damascus, where they stayed for a month before taking the Hejaz Railway to Medina. A caravan from Medina took them to the port town of Yanbu on the Red Sea, and then by ship to Jeddah and overland to Mecca. The book begins with a prelude on Wavell's background, written by Major Leonard Darwin, who was president of the Royal Geographical Society. This is followed by a preface and a lengthy introduction, both by Wavell, on the history and geography of Arabia and Islam. The rest of the book is divided into sections discussing each leg of the journey, including descriptions of the cities he visited and the people he encountered. The book concludes with a description of the hajj (pilgrimage) rituals and the city of Mecca. Following the hajj, Wavell traveled extensively in the Middle East. In 1914 he raised in Mombasa a force of about 150 Arab street water carriers, the so-called Arab Rifles or "Wavell's Arabs," to defend the city against the Germans. Although he was credited with saving the city from falling into enemy hands, he was severely wounded in the fight. Two years later he was ambushed and killed near the post of Mwele in a skirmish with the Germans as he and his men were guarding the Uganda Railway. Shown here is the second edition of Wavell's book, published posthumously in 1918.
Download or read book Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1939 1942 written by John Grehan and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle East Command in the SecondWorld War covered a vast region, stretchingacross Egypt, Libya, Malta, Palestine andTransjordan, Cyprus, Sudan, Eritrea, most ofSyria and a small part of Iraq, and includedsome forty different languages. At one pointit also oversaw operations in Greece, Kenyaand British Somaliland. Its campaign area ranfor a thousand miles from the Jordan to theHorn of Africa.Initially under the leadership of General SirArchibald Wavell, Middle East Commandsearly actions were in contending with theItalian forces in Libya and Italian East Africa.He was soon distracted by the Germaninvasion of Greece and the subsequentdefence of, and withdrawal from, the Islandof Crete. With his attention turned fromNorth Africa to the gean, Italian forces inNorth Africa were able to hold their groundand even receive reinforcements in the formof Rommels Afrika Korps .Wavells despatches detail all of thesecampaigns up to July 1941, when he wassuperseded by General Claude Auchinleck.The Auk had to deal with the Anglo-FreeFrench invasion of Syria and Lebanon and thenationalist uprising in Iraq. His mainconcern, though, was with stoppingRommels advances through Libya. The Axisforces were eventually held close to theborder of Egypt at El Alamein. It was as faras Rommel would go and it marked the endof the long run of Axis successes in NorthAfrica.The despatches presented here form aunique collection of original reports from thecommanding officers in this widespread anddifficult region. This is the first time thesedocuments have been brought together in asingle volume
Download or read book MIDDLE EAST General Wavell s Despatches Middle East written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Imperial Army in the Middle East written by James E. Kitchen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War has often been understood in terms of the combat experiences of soldiers on the Western Front; those combatants who served in the other theatres of the war have been neglected. Using personal testimonies, official documentation and detailed research from a diverse range of archives, The British Imperial Army in the Middle East explores the combat experiences of these soldiers. The army that fought the Ottoman Empire was a multinational and multi-ethnic force, drawing personnel from across Britain's empire, including Australia, New Zealand, and India. By taking a transnational and imperial perspective on the First World War, this book ensures that the campaigns in Egypt and Palestine are considered in the wider context of an empire mobilised to fight a total and global war.
Download or read book Archibald Wavell written by Jon Diamond and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archibald Wavell remains one of the great Allied commanders of the early phases of World War II. In fact, between June 1940 and June 1941, he was the only British theatre commander actively engaging Axis forces. At a time when the British Expeditionary Force had been expelled from Europe, Wavell was conducting campaigns across nine countries and two continents. In those 12 months, he planned and directly oversaw a multitude of campaigns, from the hugely successful winter campaigns against the Italians in the Western Desert and the conquest of Italian East Africa, through the Iraqi revolt, the invasion of Vichy Syria and Lebanon and the ill-fated British involvement in Greece, to the unsuccessful attempts to break the siege of Tobruk that led to his replacement in June 1941. While Wavell's great victories are often overshadowed by those of other commanders later in the war, this should not detract from his proven abilities as a strategist and tactician. This book tells the complete story of Wavell's wartime exploits and examines his strengths and weaknesses as a commander.
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Download or read book Wavell s Campaigns in the Middle East written by Lawrence Rucker Snead and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: