Battle of Sicily : How the Allies Lost Their Chance at Total Victory (Stackpole Military History Series)

Mitcham Jr., Samuel W./ von Stauffenberg, Friedrich

Stackpole Books（2007/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 368 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780811734035
• DDC分類 940.542158

Full Description

On July 10, 1943, American, British, and Canadian forces launched a massive amphibious and airborne assault on Sicily. After a five-week campaign--during which American Gen. George Patton and British Gen. Bernard Montgomery conducted their famous race to Messina--Italian dictator Benito Mussolini had been deposed, and the island lay in Allied hands. Yet total victory eluded them. With only four divisions, the Germans held off the invaders for thirty-eight days and then escaped, dooming the Allies to a prolonged battle of attrition for Italy.

Contents

The Great Blunder; Uneasy Allies; The Deteriorating Axis; The Defenders; Pantelleria, the Plan and the Air Battles; The Allies Approach; D-Day; Counterattack and retreat; Primosole Bridge; Enter General Hube; Patton Breaks Loose; The Battles of the Hauptkampflinie; The Allies Close In; Operation Lehrgang: A Panzer Corps Escapes; Epilogue; Index.