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book: Mussolini's Island: The Untold Story of the Invasion of Sicily | John Follain

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	• Mussolini's Island: The Untold Story of the Invasion of Sicily John Follain Hodder & Stoughton, 2007 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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Human narratives in the style of Cornelius Ryan

This book presents an unvarnished look at the invasion of Sicily from American, British, Italian and German protagonists. The result is a compelling narrative, and a very worthy successor to books like "The Longest Day" or "A Bridge Too Far", or the German works of Paul Carrell. If you want the story of the campaign, try Carlo D'Este's "Bitter Victory." But if you want to know what it was like for the individual soldier or civilian, read "Mussolini's Island."

Exciting, compelling and well-written

An important story, well told. By telling the story in a narrative style through eight ordinary people (civilian and milltiary and all sides) who were actually there, this brief bit of history is brought alive. Far more readable, and better written, than most fiction best sellers. If you're looking for historical minutia or battle field strategy, this is not the book for you. This is a book for someone intersted in the human story. One of the best historical books I have read in the past year. Highly recommended.

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In July 1943, the Allies launched their first assault against Hitler's "Fortress Europe" by invading Sicily. Mussolini's Island portrays the full horror and glory, the fear and the foul-ups of one of the least known but most dramatic and controversial campaigns of World War II?the battle for Sicily.