The Sicily Campaign

by William F. Buckingham

The Allied effort to secure the Italian island of Sicily followed hard on the heels of the North African Campaign, when an Anglo-American force had finally hemmed the Axis forces into Tunisia, where they were obliged to surrender on 13 May 1943, with over a quarter of a million German and Italian troops going into captivity. Now, intending to open the sea lanes across the Mediterranean for the first time since 1940, to dilute German strength in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144569414X
• ISBN13: 9781445694146
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 512 Pages