The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Liberation Trilogy, Volume 2)

The harrowing story of one of history's most compelling military campaigns.

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. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943, attack Italy two months later, and then fight their way, mile by bloody mile, north toward Rome.

The Italian campaign's outcome was never certain; in fact, President R...