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Author
Series
The liberation trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Rick Atkinson follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north towards Rome.
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2023
Description
With the invasion of France the following year taking shape, and hot on the heels of victory in Sicily, the Allies crossed into Southern Italy in September 1943. They expected to drive the Axis forces north and be in Rome by Christmas. And although Italy surrendered, the German forces resisted fiercely and the swift hoped-for victory descended into one of the most brutal battles of the war.
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Based on interviews with the main characters, and survivors, unpublished letters and diaires, 'Mussolini's Island' is an exceptional account of the battle that showed Hitler's Fortress Europe could be vaniquished, told by a talented young historian.
5) Sicily '43
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Formats
Description
Based on his own battlefield studies in Sicily and on much new research over the past thirty years, James Holland's 'Sicily '43' offers a vital new perspective on a major turning point in World War II. It is a timely, powerful and dramatic account by a master military historian and will fill a major gap in the narrative history of the Second World War.
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Description
In the hard-fought winter of 1944 the Allies advanced northwards through Italy, but stalled on the fearsome mountainous defences of the Gothic Line. Two men were parachuted in, in an effort to break the deadlock. Their mission: to penetrate deep into enemy territory and lay waste to the Germans' impregnable headquarters. At the eleventh hour mission commanders radioed for David 'The Mad Piper' Kilpatrick to be flown in, resplendent in his tartan kilt....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs, sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction, and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in one crucial respect, from any spy before or since: he was dead. His mission: to convince the Germans that instead of attacking Sicily, the Allied armies planned to invade Greece....
Author
Publisher
Clipper Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2018
Description
n the hard-fought winter of 1944 the Allies advanced northwards through Italy, but stalled on the fearsome mountainous defences of the Gothic Line. Two men were parachuted in, in an effort to break the deadlock. Their mission: to penetrate deep into enemy territory and lay waste to the Germans' impregnable headquarters. At the eleventh hour mission commanders radioed for David 'The Mad Piper' Kilpatrick to be flown in, resplendent in his tartan kilt....