And with the liberation of Rome in June 1944, ultimate victory at last began to seem inevitable. Led by Lieutenant General Mark Clark, one of the war's most complex and controversial commanders, American officers and soldiers became increasingly determined and proficient. The battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino were particularly difficult and lethal, yet as the months passed, the Allied forces continued to drive the Germans up the Italian peninsula. But once under way, the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered, despite the agonizingly high price. The Italian campaign's outcome was never certain in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate about whether an invasion of the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was even a good idea. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north toward Rome. In An Army at Dawn - winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. He is the bestselling author in the New York Times and he has written well-acclaimed books on the WWII. Rick Atkinson is the author of this fascinating book. In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. The Day of Battle is the history, military and WWII book which discusses the final invasion of armies in the broader of Europe.
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