The Southern Front by Time-Life Books

By Time-Life Books

Time-Life 3rd Reich sequence eleven of 21

Content:
1 Finale within the Desert
2 A Slugging fit for Sicily
3 Knocking at the Door off Axis Europe

4 The everlasting urban and Beyond
Essays
Through the Eyes of a Soldier
Rescuing the Duce
The Destruction of Monte Cassino
Bitter culmination off Alliance with Hitler

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Unlike many Germans, who treated Italian troops and their generals with disdain, Kesselring got along well with Guzzoni. Both men had long felt certain that Sicily was the Allies' next objective. Kesselring, the only senior German commander to appreciate the threat, was experienced as both a soldier and an airman. He realized that Sicily was the only major target within range of land-based Allied fighter planes. He and Guzzoni also agreed that the main invasion most likely would strike the southeastern corner of the island.

49 a — TWO A Hugging Natch for licily erman army On April intelligence officers could scarcely believe their good fortune. two weeks before the end of the fighting in North Africa, found a man's body drifting off the shore of southern Spain. The corpse was evidently the victim of an air crash at sea, and the local Abwehr agent was alerted. The agent copied and forwarded to Berlin the documents found in the courier case manacled to the man's wrist. The papers identified him as Major William Martin, an amphibious-landings 30, 1943, a fisherman expert in the British Royal Marines.

Almost of the all weak Italian coastal divisions caved in before the onslaught. British troops seized one battery while the crew, oblivious to Guzzoni's earlier alerts, slept beside their guns. During the early, chaotic hours of the invasion, Guzzoni tried desperately scattered forces. He ordered the return of the to gain control of his German 15th Division, the troops that on Kesselring's insistence had been sent westward, far from the landing sites. He ordered swift counterattacks against both the British and the American beachheads.

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