A war game based around the invasion of Sicily in 1943. By July 1943, the tides of war had turned on the Germans. Tunsia fell in May leaving no Axis territory in North Africa. On July 5th, they ...

Sicily was a tough nut to crack for the Allied forces from Britain, Canada and the U.S., who landed on the enemy-occupied Mediterranean island in the blistering summer of 1943. They came from fighting ...

When it comes to World War II, many are familiar with D-Day, with stories of Allies storming the beaches of Normandy and gaining the beachhead against the Axis powers. However, many are less aware of ...

Historian Holland (Normandy ’44) chronicles the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily in this expert account. In 38 days, 160,000 American, British, and Canadian troops overcame geographical challenges and ...

A little after 11pm on Friday July 9 1943, in south-east Sicily, Glider No. 133 of the British 1st Airlanding Brigade managed to skid to a halt on the ground, just a few hundred yards south-west of ...

The story of the critical campaign that became a vital precursor to D-Day, containing new and unpublished research. Transworld says this is the first narrative history book on Sicily since 1988.

Academic histories are all very well, but at times it is a pleasure to sit back and wallow in an old-school military tale of flinty-eyed men doing battle. That is what James Holland, a seasoned ...

ROME – For 43 years, the head of Sicily’s notorious Cosa Nostra organization had eluded arrest, moving from hideout to hideout in the rugged hills of western Sicily while running the world’s ...

PALERMO, Sicily - In the end, Italy's No. 1 fugitive and reputed Mafia "boss of bosses" was done in not by an informer or a rival gangster, but by clean laundry. Police tracked the package of clothes ...

Gliding into disaster: inside the carnage of the Allies’ 1943 Sicilian landings In an extract from his new book, Sicily ’43, James Holland explains why the Second World War invasion of Italy was a ...

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