World War II in the Mediterranean, 1942-1945

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Algonquin Books, 1. sij 1990. - Broj stranica: 218
Recounts events in the Mediterranean during World War II, including how the inexperienced Americans gained combat experience and learned to work together with the British.
 

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INTRODUCTION
xi
AUTHORS INTRODUCTION
xix
Lighting the Torch
1
The Battle for Tunisia
22
Operation HUSKY
38
The Battle for Sicily
57
Planning the Invasion of Italy
78
The Salerno Landings
86
The End Run
123
The Anzio Beachhead
134
Cassino and Anzio A House Divided
147
The Capture of Rome
162
To the Winter Line
178
The Final Days
192
EPILOGUE
197
ESSAY ON SOURCES
201

A NearRun Thing
99
Stalemate at the Gustav Line
113

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O autoru (1990)

Carlo D'Este was born in Oakland, California in 1936. He graduated from Norwich University, Vermont, in 1958, and he holds a master's degree from the University of Richmond. He joined the Army as a second lieutenant in 1958, graduated from the U.S. Army Command & General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1974, and retired in the grade of lieutenant colonel in 1978. His books include Decision in Normandy (1983) and Bitter Victory: the Battle for Sicily, 1943 (1988). He has a book forthcoming on the Anzio landings, and is now at work on a biography of George Patton. He is married to the former Shirley Ann Clark, and lives in New Seabury, Massachusetts.

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