The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
- ISBN-10
- 080508861X
- ISBN-13
- 9780805088618
- Series
- The Day of Battle
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 848
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-09-16
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Rick Atkinson
Description
The second volume in a trilogy chronicling the liberation of Europe during World War II focuses on the Allied campaigns in Sicily and Italy, detailing the bloody battles at Salerno, Anzio, Monte Cassino, and more under the command of controversial Lt. General Mark Clark, as well as the June 1944 liberation of Rome. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Army at Dawn. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.
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