Description
A year before the much-heralded second front was opened in Normandy in 1944, the Allies waged a campaign in Sicily and Italy–an assault that was marked by intra-Allied argument and dissent from beginning to end. This is the story of the “backwater war” that resulted: a fierce, drawn-out campaign that began with the invasion of Sicily, continued with the landings at Salerno and Anzio in Italy, and included the controversial bombing of Monte Cassino.
