Research Catalog

Title

• Circles of hell : the war in Italy, 1943-1945 / Eric Morris.

Author

Morris, Eric, 1940-

Publication

New York : Crown Publishers, 1993.

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Description

xiv, 498 p., [12] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

A study of the inadequacy of Allied leadership at the top during the Italian campaign, and the effect it had on the conduct of the campaign and the fate of ordinary soldiers.

Subject

• 1939-1945
• Geschichte (1943-1945)
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Italy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 484-485) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

In the name of liberation -- Why Sicily? -- Condemned to succeed -- Rumour, rancour and acrimony -- Intelligence and deception -- Know your rnrmy -- The invaders -- H-Hour -- D-Day : the Allies ashore -- D-Day and beyond : the enemy strikes back -- Consolidation and pursuit : after a fashion -- A foretaste of things to come -- A crooked deal -- The end of the beginning -- Dialogue between the deaf -- Start at the bottom -- False dawn -- Operation Achse (Axis) -- Avalnche : D-Day at Salerno -- Consolidation--after a fashion -- Quiet warnings -- Counterattack : crisis in the beachhead -- Reinforcements, contingencies and controversies -- The reckoning -- Naples : a long last -- A startegy of unlimited liability -- Across the Volturno--not without acrimony -- New faces -- Breaching the Winter Line -- All change at the top -- Holding court at Marrakesh -- Massacre at the Rapido -- Operation Shingle : somewhat in the nature of a bluff -- The First Battle of Cassino, 25 January-12 February 1944 -- The monastery -- Lancing the abscess -- The Ides of March : Third Cassino--the unnecessary battle -- Stalemate -- Springtime -- Victory at Cassino -- All roads lead to Rome -- Rome -- What next? -- The D-Day Dodgers -- Florence -- The Gothic Line -- Monte Altuzzo -- The road to Bologna -- Uncertain Allies -- The million-dollar wound -- Partisans -- The last great offensive -- Postscript.

ISBN

0517578107 :

LCCN

^^^93005086^

OCLC

28293626

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library