![]() But once under way, the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered, despite the agonizingly high price. ![]() ![]() The Italian campaign’s outcome was never certain in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate about whether an invasion of the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was even a good idea. 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. In An Army at Dawn-winner of the Pulitzer Prize-Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. “A triumph of narrative history, elegantly written, thick with unforgettable description and rooted in the sight and sounds of battle.” ![]() The Day of Battle The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 Volume Two of the Liberation Trilogy ![]()
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