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Authors: Rick Atkinson

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The Day of Battle

The Day of Battle

THE WAR IN SICILY AND ITALY,
1943–1944

VOLUME TWO OF THE LIBERATION TRILOGY

Rick Atkinson

Henry Holt and Company

New York

To John Sterling

Muses, launch your song!

What kings were fired for war, what armies at their orders
thronged the plains? What heroes sprang into bloom,
what weapons blazed, even in those days long ago,
in Italy’s life-giving land?

Virgil,
The Aeneid

CONTENTS
MAPS

1. Operation
HUSKY
, Invasion of Sicily, July 1943

2. Counterattack at Gela, July 11, 1943

3. Attack Across Sicily, July 1943

4. Capture of Troina, August 1–6, 1943

5. Race to Messina, August 1943

6. The Italian Battlefield, September 1943–June 1944

7. Struggle at Salerno, September 9–14, 1943

8. Fifth Army at the Winter Line, mid-November 1943

9. First and Second Attacks on San Pietro, December 1943

10. Canadian Attack at Ortona, December 1943

11. Assault on the Rapido River, January 20–22, 1944

12. Anzio Landings and Early Advance, January 22–31, 1944

13. U.S. and French Attacks at Cassino, January 25–February 12, 1944

14. German Counterattack at Anzio, February 16–20, 1944

15. Operation
DICKENS
at Cassino, March 15–24, 1944

16. Operation
DIADEM
, May 11–23, 1944

17. Breakout at Anzio, May 23–25, 1944

18. Shifting the Attack at Anzio, May 25–26, 1944

19. The Liberation of Rome, May 31–June 4, 1944

MAP LEGEND

ALLIED CHAIN OF COMMAND

I
NVASION OF
S
ICILY
, J
ULY
1943

ALLIED CHAIN OF COMMAND

O
PERATION DIADEM
, F
INAL
D
RIVE TO
R
OME
, M
AY
1944

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