In the first weeks of the Allied campaign to liberate Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force of over 80,000 men was nearly beaten back into the sea by the Germans in a ferocious ten-day battle at Salerno.
Based on fresh archival research and investigation of the battlefield, this book presents a hour by hour reconstruction of the fighting..
In the first weeks of the Allied campaign to liberate Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force of over 80,000 men was nearly beaten back into the sea by the Germans in a ferocious ten-day battle at Salerno