I, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for history.) In The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1994, Rick Atkinson offers the second volume of his Liberation Trilogy, and traces those inches in agonizing, brilliant detail. For the rest of the war, well past D-Day, they climbed the boot, inch by torturous inch.

In July 1943, American and British armies landed on Sicily and began pushing the Germans north and east and were shortly in Italy proper. Having swept the Axis out of Northern Africa in May 1943, the Allies found themselves more than a year away from the expected invasion of Western Europe.Īs fighting raged in the east, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin pleaded and demanded that the United States and Britain open an immediate second front, lest all the Nazi blood being spilled was matched only by that of the Red Army. Urn:oclc:85019241 Republisher_date 20140107023126 Republisher_operator Scandate 20140103013656 Scanner, where 23,501 Americans and an estimated 48,000 Germans died in battle, is the forgotten theater of World War II. Urn:lcp:dayofbattlewarin00atki:epub:069a3df1-1ffe-40d6-9015-81563ec11106 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier dayofbattlewarin00atki Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2g75v175 Invoice 11 Isbn 9780805062892Ġ805062890 Lccn 2007007653 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL22767466M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:42:37 Boxid IA1111423 Boxid_2 CH127003 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0008 Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1.

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