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Hace 3 días · The Commanders of World War II were for the most part career officers.They were forced to adapt to new technologies and forged the direction of modern warfare. Some political leaders, particularly those of the principal dictatorships involved in the conflict, Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Hirohito (Japan), acted as dictators for their respective countries or empire
Hace 5 días · See also Category:British generals – note that a "Brigadier" is not classed as a "general" in the British Army, despite being a NATO 1-star equivalent rank. Prior to the mid to late-1990s, British ranks used a hyphen.
Hace 5 días · World War II. 2000–present. v. t. e. At the start of 1939, the British Army was, as it traditionally always had been, a small volunteer professional army. At the beginning of the Second World War on 1 September 1939, the British Army was small in comparison with those of its enemies, as it had been at the beginning of the First World War in 1914.
17 de abr. de 2024 · What General [Maxime] Weygand [commander of the Allied armies in France] called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin.…Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”
25 de abr. de 2024 · Miles Christopher Dempsey (born Dec. 15, 1896, New Brighton, Cheshire, Eng.—died June 5, 1969, Yattendon, Berkshire) was a British army officer who commanded the Second Army, the main British force in the Allied drive across western Europe (1944–45) during World War II. Dempsey was commissioned in the British Army in 1915 and fought in ...
Hace 5 días · North Africa campaigns, (1940–43), in World War II, series of battles for control of North Africa. At stake was control of the Suez Canal, a vital lifeline for Britain’s colonial empire, and of the valuable oil reserves of the Middle East. Track the League of Nations' continual failure to check via diplomacy the Axis powers' pre-World War ...
Hace 5 días · Half the Battle. Civilian Morale in Britain during the Second World War. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002, ISBN: 719058937X; 288pp.; Price: £49.99. Dr John Baxendale, review of Half the Battle. Civilian Morale in Britain during the Second World War, (review no. 332) For a long time after 1945, as Basil Fawlty famously discovered ...
