The Battle For Italy (1967) By W.G.F. Jackson
 
This is an excellent comprehensive history of one of the key campaigns of WWII.
 
General Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson, GBE, KCB, MC (28 August 1917 12 March 1999) was a British Army officer, military historian, author and Governor of Gibraltar.
 
Educated at Shrewsbury School, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and King's College, Cambridge, William Jackson was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1937. He served with the British Army in Norway, North Africa, Sicily, Italy and the Far East during World War II.
 
After the War he became a General Staff Officer at Headquarters Allied Land Forces, South East Asia in 1945 before moving on to be an Instructor at the Staff College, Camberley in 1948 and an Instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in 1951. He was appointed Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (Plans) at the War Office during the Suez crisis in 1956. He became Commander, Gurkha Engineers in 1958 and went back to the Staff College, Camberley in 1961. He was Deputy Director of Staff Duties at the War Office from 1962 and joined the Imperial Defence College in 1965. He went on to be Director of the Chief of Defence Staff's Unison Planning Staff in 1966 and Assistant Chief of the General Staff (Operational Requirements) at the Ministry of Defence in 1968. He was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Northern Command in 1970 and Quartermaster-General to the Forces in 1973.  He was a Military Historian at the Cabinet Office from 1977 to 1978 when he became Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar; he retired in 1982. He was knighted in 1971.
 
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372 pages
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