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  • Published: 2 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9780718186548
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 56
  • RRP: $29.99
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The War in Italy: A Ladybird Expert Book

(WW2 #8)




An accessible and authoritative introduction to the critical and complex Italian campaigns of WWII, from award-winning historian James Holland

- Why did the Allies decide to invade Southern Italy?
- How did the weather and Italian terrain complicate the fighting?
- How did General Mark Clark's Allied Armies win the final battle?

Discover the mounting conflict and complex campaigns of the war in Italy. From Operation HUSKY to Clark's final offensive, the Allied campaign tightened the noose around Nazi Germany and saw the end of Italian Fascism, though it was at a cost of high civilian casualty and destruction.

AN EPIC OF GRIT, DETERMINATION AND SACRIFICE

Written by historian, author and broadcaster James Holland and with immersive illustrations by Keith Burns, THE WAR IN ITALY 1943-1945 is an accessible and enthralling introduction to these critical battles and their impact on the outcome of World War II

  • Published: 2 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9780718186548
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 56
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

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. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940 and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940.

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