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On the night of 9-10 July 1943, an Allied armada launched the
invasion of Sicily, a larger operation than the Normandy landings
the following year. Over the next thirty-eight days, half a million
Allied servicemen fought the Germans and Italians for control of
this rocky island, which was to become the first part of Axis
homeland to fall during World War II. Despite their success in
capturing the island, inter-Allied and inter-service divisions and
rivalries robbed them of the opportunity to inflict a crushing
defeat on the Germans and Italians, who were able to conduct a
fighting withdrawal to the Italian mainland and save sizable forces
to continue the war. Regarded by some as a blind alley, by others
as the way into Europe via the soft underbelly, the decision to
invade Sicily was and remains controversial. Notwithstanding the
campaigns failure to achieve its potential, invaluable lessons were
learned which contributed to success in France later. Many of the
leading generals who were to take prominent roles in North-West
Europe amongst them Eisenhower, Montgomery, Bradley and Patton
brought with them the experience of Sicily.
Around 1800 Lettice Sweetapple lived in West Overton, Wiltshire,
between Avebury and Marlborough. Her house looked across the River
Kennet to the chalk downs and southwards to woods once part of the
Savernake Forest. She represents hundreds of thousands of people
whose lives were shaped by the changing landscape, and who changed
it, over ten millennia. Peter Fowler and his team of
archaeologists, historians, and scientists have investigated the
landscape of the parishes of West Overton and Flyfield over 39
years, not merely as local history but as a microcosm of the
English countryside. In setting out to answer the question "How has
this landscape come to look as it does?" they have made use of
fieldwork, aerial photography, excavation, old maps and documents,
geophysics, and numerous analytical techniques on everything from
standing buildings to flecks of charcoal. The resulting mountain of
information contradicts the persistent myth of "he unchanging
English countryside."
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