Название: The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943
Автор: James Holland
Издательство: Bantam
ISBN: 080216160X
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 480
Размер: 82,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland both narrates and reframes the controversial first months of the Italian Campaign and sets a new standard in the chronicling of war. Following victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops crossed into southern Italy in September 1943, expecting to drive Axis forces north and liberate Rome by Christmas. Italy quickly surrendered but German divisions fiercely resisted, and the hoped-for quick victory descended into one of the most challenging and protracted battles of the entire war.