NewMexiKen ordered Rick Atkinson’s The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
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NewMexiKen ordered Rick Atkinson’s The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
Nice.
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50 pages in, it’s very good.
The Allied landing on Sicily in July 1943 was the largest amphibious action in history — bigger than D-Day.
“The fellow standing next to me was breathing so hard I couldn’t hear the anchor go down. The I realized there wasn’t anybody standing next to me.”