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In July 1943, the Allies launched their first assault against the "Fortress Europe" which Hitler thought invincible. The biggest armada the world has ever known fought its way onto the island of Sicily, landing nearly half a million men. Few know that D-Day in Sicily was bigger even than the Normandy invasion a year later. With the eyewitness testimony of six men and women - including General Patton's secretary, an American G.I., and a nine-year-old girl - MUSSOLINI'S ISLAND captures for the first time the full horror and glory, the fear and the foul-ups of one of the least known but most dramatic and controversial battles of World War II.MUSSOLINI'S ISLAND is not a conventional military history. It tells the story of otherwise faceless men and women - American and Italian soldiers, a British Navy officer, and a Spitfire pilot - whose lives and loves are changed by the choices of Hitler and Mussolini, and of two star commanders locked in a personal rivalry: old "blood and guts" Patton, whose legend was tarnished by his impetuous nature in this campaign, and Montgomery, the best-known British Army commander of World War II. Based on in-depth interviews with the main characters, and hundreds of interviews with survivors, unpublished letters and diaries, Mussolini's Island sweeps the reader across stormy seas and onto the landing beaches in the first D-Day, into an enemy tank attack, and up dusty mountain roads in the stifling Sicilian summer to a final, hollow victory in the shadow of Mount Etna. An epic story of men and women at the most demanding moment of their existence, when the awfulness, complexities and triumphs of life are laid bare and fear and courage come to the fore.
- Publisher Name:Hodder & Stoughton
- Product Format:Paperback
- ISBN: XG80340840658
- Author:John, Follain
- Publication Date:2005-09-15
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