Easton Press: BITTER VICTORY: SICILY: 1943: WORLD WAR II: MONTGOMERY: PATTON

Description: Easton Press leather edition of Carlo D' Este's "Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily, 1943," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Period Photographs, published in 2004. Bound in deep hunter green leather, the book has camel tan French moire end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---except for a blank attached bookplate on inside fly leaf. "Bitter Victory" illuminates a chapter of World War II, the second largest amphibious operation in military history. The book explodes the myth of the GENERAL GEORGE PATTON and BERNARD MONTGOMERY rivalry and exposes how Alexander's inept generalship nearly wrecked the campaign. D' Este documents in chilling detail the series of savage battles fought against an overmatched but brilliant foe and how the Germans---against overwhelming odds---carried out one of the greatest strategic withdrawals in history. His narrative depicts for the first time how the Allies bungled their attempt to cut off the Axis retreat from Sicily, turning what ought to have been a great triumph into a bitter victory. The book offers penetrating reassessments of the men who masterminded the campaign---military history on an epic scale, including discussions of Generals TRUSCOTT, PATTON, SCHMALAZ, TEDDER, GEORGE MARSHALL, LIEUTENANT LEESE, Major General Troy Middleton, Major Alan Keyes, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Major John Lucas, Major Troy Middleton, Major Clarence Huebner, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, and leaders, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, General Dwight Eisenhower, Adolph Hitler, and Mussolini. As 1942 drew to a close, the first serious cracks began to appear in the great Nazi war machine that had vanquished Europe and was attempting to dismember Russia. By late 1942, ROMMEL considered further Axis presence in North Africa a futile gesture. Operation Torch, the Anglo-Americans invasion of Morocco and Algeria in November 1942, sealed the fate of Axis forces in North Africa. When Churchill and Roosevelt met at Casablanca there was considerable uncertainty over the outcome what strategy the Allies would adopt. Sicily became a brief and unpleasant interlude between the North African and the later campaigns in Italy and Northwest Europe. For thirty-eight days during the summer of 1943 the attention of the world centered upon Sicily. By mid-1943, most Italians were thoroughly sick of the war and the misery it had brought them. Their dictator, BENITO MUSSOLINI, had attempted to ape the glory days of the great Roman empire but history proved him inept. 666 pages, including Appendix, Bibliography, and an index. I offer combined shipping.

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