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Assault on Sicily - Monty and Patton at War (Hardcover, Illustrated edition)
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Assault on Sicily - Monty and Patton at War (Hardcover, Illustrated edition)
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On the night of 9/10 July 1943, an Allied armada of 2,590 vessels
launched one of the largest combined operations of the Second World
War - the invasion of Sicily, Operation 'Husky'. Over the next 38
days, half a million British, Canadian, American and French
soldiers, sailors, and airmen grappled with their German and
Italian counterparts for control of this rocky outcrop of Hitler's
'Fortress Europe'. The Allied assault on Sicily featured airborne
and amphibious landings; mountain warfare; international rivalry;
poorly performing troops; tenacious German resistance; and,
improvements in tactical air support and the ultimate Allied
victory on the island. Almost the whole of the progress of the
Second World War is illustrated by this one campaign. It was the
only action where the whole Allied war effort was brought to bear
on a single objective, with one army commanded by Patton and one
army commanded by Montgomery. Both men were insufferable egoists
and insubordinate commanders; they always chose to do their own
thing, regardless of others' sensibilities and always with one eye
on how history would see them. The seeds of rivalry between these
two key Allied commanders that were sown in the Sicily campaign
eventually grew to fruition in the battles for Normandy and the
Ardennes.
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