THE SICILY CAMPAIGN: FROM NORTH AFRICA TO MESSINA.
Code: H252
Price: £35
Category(s): New Books, World War Two,
512pp., 16 plates. 2025. The six weeks of fighting cost the Allied forces almost 20,000 men killed, wounded and missing, while their opponents lost around 100,000, with a further 123,000 prisoners, mostly Italian. The Sicily Campaign was the first occasion that Allied forces successfully took the fight onto the home territory of an Axis power.