Bitter victory: the battle for Sicily, 1943

This is an even-handed, meticulously documented, and absorbing examination of the conquest of Sicily in 1943. For the first time the major military commanders who would lead the Allied victory in Europe were together.

  • OCLC #: 16351718
  • ISBN #:
    • 0525244719
    • 9780525244714
  • Call #: D763.S5D47 1988
  • Physical Location: Pritzker Military Museum & Library — Staff Office-203 — D763.S5 D47 1988
  • Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton, ©1988.
  • Edition:
    • 1st American ed.
  • Physical Description: 666 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
  • General Notes:
    • Includes index.
  • Contents:
    • The road to Sicily. Casablanca
    • Tunisia: the testing ground
    • Planning Operation Husky. 'A dog's breakfast'
    • The hero of Alamein
    • Montgomery takes charge
    • 'An old man of about 60'
    • The invasion plan
    • Internecine quarrels
    • Point / Counter-point. Operation MINCEMEAT
    • A difference of opinion
    • The die is cast
    • Invasion. The 'flying coffins'
    • Invaders from the sky
    • The eighth army assault
    • The seventh army landings
    • The D-day counterattacks
    • D+1: The crucial day
    • The axis on the defensive
    • The great boundary line dispute
    • Alexander: the great enigma
    • Battle for Sicily. The bridge over the Simeto
    • The first battle for Primosole Bridge
    • Stalemate
    • The left hook
    • The Palermo venture
    • Exit Mussolini
    • The race for Messina. All roads lead to Messina
    • The Battle for Troina
    • Days of triumph and folly
    • The great escape
    • Bitter victory.