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Sicily and the surrender of Italy / by Albert N. Garland and Howard McGaw Smyth ; assisted by Martin Blumenson.

by Garland, Albert N., author.

Washington, D.C. : Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1965.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy -- Sicily.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy.

United States Army in World War II. Mediterranean theater of operations ; 2.

xvii, 609 pages : illustrations, folded color map (in pocket), portraits, plans (some folded color inserted on back cover) ; 26 cm

Background and Plans -- Allied Strategy in the Mediterranean -- The Axis on the Defensive -- Preparations and Preliminaries -- The Axis Situation -- Final Allied Preparations -- Operations and Negotiations -- The Assault -- The First Day -- The Axis Threat -- Airborne Reinforcement -- The Beachhead Secure -- Continuing the Campaign: the Deicions -- Seventh Army Changes Directions -- The Drive to the Climax -- The Climax -- Dissolution of the Rome-Berlin Axis -- The Drive to the East -- The Battle of Troina -- Breaking the San Fratello Line -- Evacuation -- Brolo -- The end of the Campaign -- The Surrender -- The Quadrant Conference and the Quebec Memorandum -- The Surrender Preliminaries -- The Italian Decision -- The Armistice -- The Renunciation -- The Surrender -- The Dissolution -- The Second Capitulation.

Operations during the invasion and conquest of Sicily and the military diplomacy that led to Italy's surrender.

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