[World War II Liberation Trilogy 02] • The Day of Battle · The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Atkinson, Rick -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Also by Rick Atkinson Title Page Dedication Epigraph CONTENTS LIST OF MAPS MAP LEGEND ALLIED CHAIN OF COMMAND PROLOGUE PART ONE

1. ACROSS THE MIDDLE SEA

Forcing the World Back to Reason Calypso’s Island “The Horses of the Sun” Death or Glory

2. THE BURNING SHORE

Land of the Cyclops The Loss of Irrecoverable Hours “Tonight Wear White Pajamas” “The Dark World Is Not Far from Us”

3. AN ISLAND REDOUBT

“Into Battle with Stout Hearts” “How I Love Wars” Snaring the Head Devil Fevers of an Unknown Origin A Great Grief “In a Place Like This”

PART TWO

4. SALERNO

“Risks Must Be Calculated” Plots, Counterplots, and Cross-plots The Stillest Shoes the World Could Boast The Moan of Lost Souls A Portal Won

5. CORPSE OF THE SIREN

“I Give You Naples” “Watch Where You Step and Have No Curiosity at All” The Mountainous Hinterland “The Entire World Was Burning”

6. WINTER

The Archangel Michael, Here and Everywhere “A Tank Too Big for the Village Square” A Gangster’s Battle Too Many Gone West

PART THREE

7. A RIVER AND A ROCK

Colonel Warden Makes a Plan “Nothing Was Right Except the Courage” The Show Must Go On

8. PERDITION

“Something’s Happening” Through the Looking Glass Jerryland

9. THE MURDER SPACE

This World and the Next World at Strife The Bitchhead “Man Is Distinguished from the Beasts”

PART FOUR

10. FOUR HORSEMEN

A Fairyland of Silver and Gold The Weight of Metal Dragonflies in the Sun

11. A KETTLE OF GRIEF

Dead Country “Put the Fear of God into Them” “You Are All Brave. You Are All Gentlemen” “On the Eve of Great Things”

12. THE GREAT PRIZE

Shaking Stars from the Heavens A Fifth Army Show The Cuckoo’s Song Expulsion of the Barbarians

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