The Day of Battle
Authors: Rick Atkinson
Tags: #General, #Europe, #Military, #History, #bought-and-paid-for, #Non-Fiction, #War, #World War II, #World War; 1939-1945, #Campaigns, #Italy
The Long Gray Line
Crusade
An Army at Dawn
In the Company of Soldiers
THE WAR IN SICILY AND ITALY,
1943–1944
VOLUME TWO OF THE LIBERATION TRILOGY
Henry Holt and Company
New York
To John Sterling
Muses, launch your song!
What kings were fired for war, what armies at their orders
thronged the plains? What heroes sprang into bloom,
what weapons blazed, even in those days long ago,
in Italy’s life-giving land?
Virgil,
The Aeneid
1. Operation
HUSKY
, Invasion of Sicily, July 1943
2. Counterattack at Gela, July 11, 1943
3. Attack Across Sicily, July 1943
4. Capture of Troina, August 1–6, 1943
5. Race to Messina, August 1943
6. The Italian Battlefield, September 1943–June 1944
7. Struggle at Salerno, September 9–14, 1943
8. Fifth Army at the Winter Line, mid-November 1943
9. First and Second Attacks on San Pietro, December 1943
10. Canadian Attack at Ortona, December 1943
11. Assault on the Rapido River, January 20–22, 1944
12. Anzio Landings and Early Advance, January 22–31, 1944
13. U.S. and French Attacks at Cassino, January 25–February 12, 1944
14. German Counterattack at Anzio, February 16–20, 1944
15. Operation
DICKENS
at Cassino, March 15–24, 1944
16. Operation
DIADEM
, May 11–23, 1944
17. Breakout at Anzio, May 23–25, 1944
I
NVASION OF
S
ICILY
, J
ULY
1943
O
PERATION DIADEM
, F
INAL
D
RIVE TO
R
OME
, M
AY
1944
