Chester Wilmot (1911–1954)
Autore di The Struggle for Europe
Sull'Autore
Opere di Chester Wilmot
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Wilmot, Reginald William Winchester
- Altri nomi
- Chester
- Data di nascita
- 1911-06-21
- Data di morte
- 1954-01-10
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Porto Azzurro, Elba
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- Brighton, Victoria, Australia
- Luogo di morte
- Mediterranean Sea
- Istruzione
- University of Melbourne
- Attività lavorative
- reporter
- Organizzazioni
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
British Broadcasting Corporation - Breve biografia
- died in a plane crash. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wilmo...
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Utenti
- 443
- Popolarità
- #55,291
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 22
- Lingue
- 3
Early in 1941, Australian troops captured Tobruk from the Italians: it was an important victory because it was Mussolini’s stronghold on the Libyan Coast. Bordered by pitiless desert, Tobruk was a strategic fortress because it had a deep-water harbour on the eastern Mediterranean. Rommel’s Afrika Corps quickly arrived to reclaim it and so began a 241-day siege beginning in April and not lifted until November of that year. Germany had successfully stormed through Europe using Blitzkrieg tactics, and the Afrika Corps had never been defeated. Tobruk was the first time they were repulsed and it wasn’t just Rommel who was outraged, the German High Command was livid. They were especially galled to discover that their crack troops had been stymied by a bunch of volunteers. As a captured German diary showed:
The defenders comprised 14,000 Australian soldiers commanded by Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead, about 5000 men in four regiments of British artillery, and about 500 Indian troops under the command of the British. For both sides, Tobruk was critical because the Allies wanted to keep Rommel tied up in Libya while they regrouped after their defeat in Greece, and the Axis Powers wanted to get on with having control of the oil fields.
Chester Wilmot was an embedded war correspondent with the AIF, and he wrote this landmark text during 1943 while he was becalmed in Sydney. (He’d lost his accreditation because he’d offended General Blamey with criticism of the high command supplying the troops in New Guinea). With the war still raging, Wilmot used this time to write a unique military history of the Siege of Tobruk.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2017/04/20/tobruk-1941-by-chester-wilmot/… (altro)