‘A masterly and vivid account which is hard to put down’
Scotsman

‘A sorry tale of war, superbly told’
Max Hastings

The fighting in Sicily in the summer of 1943, sandwiched between greater events in Normandy and Italy, has been almost forgotten by military historians, yet the invasion was one of the major Allied decisions of the European war.  For 38 days of summer 1943 the attention of the world centred upon Sicily, where yet another chapter in the island’s violent history was written by modern warriors, mapping out the course of World War Two. This is the story of how the battle for Sicily was conceived, planned and executed by the Allies, and how the tenacity of the Germans, spurring on their reluctant Italian ally, succeeded in turning what ought to have been great Allied triumph into a bitter victory.

Mixing flawless research, drama and combat with a brilliant narrative voice, Carlo D’Este’s excellent Bitter Victory is the first and only book on this critical campaign. Hailed as a classic work of military history, it is now available in this new paperback edition.

Carlo D’Este is a retired lieutenant colonel from the US army, having served in Germany, England and Vietnam. His many books include the acclaimed studies of the Anzio and Normandy campaigns. He lives in Massachusetts.

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‘Immensely well-researched and readable… It fills an important gap in the history of the Second World War’
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