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Item:BATTLE FOR SICILY - JULY-AUG 1943 History War Photos

BATTLE FOR SICILY - JULY-AUG 1943 History War Photos

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Item number:220467520200
Item location:UPPER HUNTER VALLEY, New South Wales, Australia
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Format: HardcoverPublication Year: 1988
Subject: Military & WarSpecial Attributes: 1st Edition
 Specific WarsLanguage: English
 World War IICondition: Used
Campaign: World War IIProduct Type: Books

 

 

 

BITTER VICTORY

THE BATTLE FOR SICILY

JULY - AUGUST 1943

BY CARLO D'ESTE

 

PUBLISHED BY COLLINS, LONDON

1ST EDITION BOOK, PRINTED 1988

 

 

THE RECOLLECTIONS, COMMENTS AND CRITICISMS OF A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN THE WRITING OF THIS BOOK.

TIME HAS LARGELY HEALED THE WOUNDS OF THE SAVAGE WAR THAT ENGULFED THE WORLD FROM 1939-1945, EVEN THOUGH TO RECALL THE SICILY CAMPAIGN HAS FOR MANY VETERANS UNDOUTHEDLY EVOKED PAINFUL MEMORIES.

AS 1942 DREW CLOSE - NAZI WAR MACHINES WHICH HAD VANQUISHED EUROPE AND WAS NOW ATTEMPTING TO DESMEMBER RUSSIA.

ON THE EASTERN FRONT THE WEHRMACHT NOW FOUND ITSELF ENGAGED IN A LIFE AND DEATH STRUGGLE AGAINST THE RED ARMY.  BY FEBRUARY 1943, SWA THE ANNIHILATION OF FIELD MARSHAL FRIEDRICH VON PAULUS' SIXTH GERMAN ARMY IN THE FROZEN HELL OF STALINGRAD.

THIS BOOK TAKES US TO THE BATTLE FIELD WITH AN IN-DEPTH EXAMINATION OF THE SECOND LARGEST AMPHIBIOUS OPERATION EVER MOUNTED, THOSE WHO MASTERMINDED IT AND THE ORDINARY SOLDIERS OF BOTH SIDES WHO FOUGHT THERE. HOW THE BATTLE WAS CONCEIVED, PLANNED AND CARRIED OUT BY THE ALLIES, AND HOW THE GERMAN AND THEIR RELUCTANT ITALIAN ALLY SUCCEEDED IN TURNING WHO OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN A GREAT TRIUMPH INTO A BITTER VICTORY.

THIS BOOK TOOK FOUR YEARS OF RESEARCH TO COMPLETE.

 

BOOK ALSO CONTAINS PHOTOGRAPHS OF SOLDIERS, MAPS, OFFICERS, BATTLE FIELDS PLUS MORE

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SCARCE BOOK TO FIND, COLLECTABLE

USED BOOK,  EX DEFENCE DEPARTMENT LIBRARY BOOK, HAS DEFENCE STAMP INSIDE BOOK

BOOK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, NO DUSTJACKET

INNER PAGES IN EXCELLENT  CONDITION

VERY THICK HARD COVER BOOK  

      BOOKS CONTAINS 666 PAGES IN TOTAL  

 

GREAT COLLECTABLE SICILY BATTLE \ WORLD WAR 2 BOOK

 

PLEASE EMAIL IF MORE INFORMATION IS REQUIRED ABOUT THIS BOOK,  EMAILS ARE ANSWERED DAILY.

NO INTERNATIONAL MONEY ORDERS ARE ACCEPTED.

 

HAPPY BIDDING - THANKS FOR LOOKING AT MY AUCTIONS - XBCOUPE1976


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