Allied Armies in Sicily and Italy 1943-1945.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forty, Simon.

Series:

Images of War

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy--Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2020.

Summary:

Photographic history of the Allied armies of the Italian campaign.The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of the Second World War, splitting the American and British allies, and causing great disharmony. After the fall of Rome and the surrender of Italy, the invasion of Normandy led to the Italian campaign becoming a sideshow as the 'D-Day Dodgers' fought their way through Italy to the Alps against a grinding defense and extreme weather.In a sequence of 200 wartime photographs Simon Forty sums up the major events of the conflict - from the landings on Sicily to the crossing of the Po. Commanded first by Sir Harold Alexander and then Mark Clark, the Allied armies (US Fifth and British Eighth)drew men not only from Britain, the United States, France and Poland but from all over the Commonwealth - from Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa - as well as such other countries as Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Greece and Palestine.The devastation caused by the war in the cities, towns and countryside is part of the story, but perhaps the most powerful impression is made by the faces of the soldiers themselves as they look out from the Italian front of so long ago.

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright

Table of Contents

Introduction

Photograph Sources

Chapter One Setting the Scene

Chapter Two Operation Husky

Chapter Three The Invasion of Italy

Chapter Four Cassino and the Gustav Line

Chapter Five Anzio and Rome

Chapter Six The Gothic Line and theAdvance to Bologna

Chapter Seven Endgame

Further Reading

Back cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781526766236

152676623X

9781526766212

1526766213

OCLC:

1243142649