The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series)

A New York Times Bestseller -- A Pulitzer Prize?winning AuthorAfter his Pulitzer Prize?winning history of the Allied triumph in North Africa, Rick Atkinson follows the strengthening armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north. The decision to invade Europe's so-called soft underbelly was controversial, but once under way the commitment never wavered. And with the liberation of Rome from the Nazis in June 1944, victory at last began to seem inevitable.