Sicily '43 - James Holland

Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943 remains the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted. That day, over 160,000 Allied troops were dropped from the sky or came ashore to begin the fight for Europe. The subsequent thirty-eight-day Battle for Sicily was one of the most dramatic of the entire 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. 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.

Binding: Paperback
Pages: 784