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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 - The Liberation Trilogy
Rick Atkinson
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 - The Liberation Trilogy
Rick Atkinson
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Majestic... Atkinson?s achievement is to marry prodigious research with a superbly organized narrative and then to overlay the whole with writing as powerful and elegant as any great narrative of war.? ?The Wall Street Journal
In An Army at Dawn?winner of the Pulitzer Prize?Rick Atkinson provided an authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa during World War II. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north toward Rome.
The decision to invade the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was controversial, but once under way, the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered. The battles at Salerno, Anzio, the Rapido River, and Monte Cassino were particularly lethal, yet as the months passed, the Allied forces continued to drive the Germans up the Italian peninsula. And with the liberation of Rome in June 1944, ultimate victory at last began to seem inevitable.
Drawing on a wide array of primary source material, written with great drama and flair, The Day of Battle is a masterly account of one of history?s most compelling military campaigns.
848 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 16, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780805088618 |
Publishers | Henry Holt and Co. |
Pages | 848 |
Dimensions | 138 × 208 × 38 mm · 658 g |
Language | English |
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