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Sicily '43 - A Times Book of the Year (Hardcover)
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Sicily '43 - A Times Book of the Year (Hardcover)
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'Perfect territory for a military historian of Holland's talents'
The Times
___________________________________________________________ This is
the story of the biggest seaborne landing in history. Codenamed
Operation HUSKY, the Allied assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943
remains the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted in world
history, landing more men in a single day than at any other time.
That day, over 160,000 British, American and Canadian troops were
dropped from the sky or came ashore, more than on D-Day just under
a year later. It was also preceded by an air campaign that marked a
new direction and dominance of the skies by Allies. The subsequent
thirty-eight-day Battle for Sicily was one of the most dramatic of
the entire Second World War, involving daring raids by special
forces, deals with the Mafia, attacks across mosquito-infested
plains and perilous assaults up almost sheer faces of rock and
scree. It was a brutal campaign - the violence was extreme, the
heat unbearable, the stench of rotting corpses intense and
all-pervasive, the problems of malaria, dysentery and other
diseases a constant plague. And all while trying to fight a way
across an island of limited infrastructure and unforgiving
landscape, and against a German foe who would not give up. It also
signalled the beginning of the end of the War in the West. From
here on, Italy ceased to participate in the war, the noose began to
close around the neck of Nazi Germany, and the coalition between
the United States and Britain came of age. Most crucially, it would
be a critical learning exercise before Operation OVERLORD, the
Allied invasion of Normandy, in June 1944. 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.
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