The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 Reviews

One of the biggest misconceptions the public had about World War II in general and specifically about the Allied efforts to defeat Nazi Germany is that there was a strategic blueprint that divided the liberation of Western Europe into several pre-planned phases, with one phase leading logically to the next, like a series of stepping stones across a pond or something along those lines. Phase One, of course, was the Anglo-American buildup of forces in the British Isles to create an army of liberation that would eventually reach a total strength of three million men… read full review »