Invasion diary

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Author

Richard Tregaskis

Publication

2004 - University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska

Language

English

Word Count

61,250 words, Guess

Page Count

245 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL3679952M
ISBN-100803294557
OCLC Control Number53287696
Library of Congress Control Number2003022981
LibraryThing496541

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Goodreads1389100

Classifications

DDC940.54/215
LCCD763.I8 T7 2004

Description

Account of the invasion of Sicily and southern Italy.

Description

"The Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy in 1943 were bloody and pivotal, securing the Mediterranean, capitalizing on the overthrow of Mussolini, and pinning down German troops that could have been used on the Russian Front or in France after D-Day. The men who made the Allied victories in Sicily and Italy possible - soldiers and officers, bombardiers and drivers, doctors and generals - are honored and remembered in these pages by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis." "Fresh from his days in the field on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal, Tregaskis shares a diary of the Sicilian and Italian campaigns. His experiences take him from bomb-bay doors over Rome to one of the few hotels left standing in devastated Palermo, Sicily, to the chaotic front lines in Italy, where he nearly died from a shrapnel wound."--Jacket.