The Battle of Sicily: How the Allies Lost Their Chance for Total Victory

by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Friedrich von Stauffenberg

Overview

The campaign for Sicily from the Axis point of view. Reassesses the German Army's performance. Details about German commanders who have been neglected by historians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811746694
Publisher:	Stackpole Books
Publication date:	06/18/2007
Series:	Stackpole Military History Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., is the author of more than twenty books on World War II. He lives in Louisiana. Friedrich von Stauffenberg, who died in 1989, was an expert on German-armored warfare in World War II.

Table of Contents

Maps     vii
Tables     viii
Introduction     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
The Great Blunder     1
Uneasy Allies     9
The Deteriorating Axis     13
The Defenders     21
Pantelleria, the Plan, and the Air Battles     41
The Allies Approach     63
D-Day     73
Counterattack and Retreat     121
Primosole Bridge     137
Enter General Hube     169
Patton Breaks Loose     193
The Battles of the Hauptkampflinie     231
The Allies Close In     259
Operation Lehrgang: A Panzer Corps Escapes     283
Epilogue     315
Tables of Equivalent Rank     327
Evolution and Titles of the Hermann Goering Panzer Unit     329
Order of Battle, Italian 6th Army, July 10, 1943     330
Order of Battle, 15th Army Group, July 10, 1943     335
Notes     341
Bibliography     355
Index     360