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- Paperback
736 pages
- Release Date
3 September 2024
Summary
The most pivotal, brutal, and shattering campaign the Allies faced in World War II by bestselling historian James Holland.
With the invasion of France the following year taking shape, and hot on the heels of victory in Sicily, the Allies crossed into Southern Italy in September 1943. They expected to drive the Axis forces north and be in Rome by Christmas. And although Italy surrendered, the German forces resisted fiercely, and the swift, hoped-for victory descended into one of the mo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804991404 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804991406 |
| Author: | James Holland |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 736 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 520g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 35mm |
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Richly impressive, hard to surpass – William BoydA notable account of an epic human experience – Max Hastings * Sunday Times *The best of the new generation of WW2 historians – Sebastian FaulksGreat…One of the new generation of historians who bring a freshness and a proper spirit enquiry – John Sergeant * Sunday Express *A master of spinning narrative military history from accounts of men and women who were there * BBC History magazine *
About The Author
James Holland
James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently The Savage Storm and Cassino ‘44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts. He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels. With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and is a research fellow at St Andrew’s University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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