03052cam a2200301 i 4500 1014018603 TxAuBib 20231220120000.0 230815s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023034790 9780802161604 HRD 32.00 080216160X HRD 32.00 TxAuBib rda Holland, James, 1970-, author Savage storm. The savage storm [BOOK] : the battle for Italy 1943 / James Holland. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023. liii, 565 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Part I: Summer -- The Burning Blue -- Conundrums -- At General Clark's HQ -- BAYTOWN -- Uncertainty -- Mistrust -- Bluffing -- Part II: Autumn -- AVALANCHE -- Toehold -- Italy's Collapse -- Build-up and Containment -- Fritz X -- Crisis -- Turn of Fortune-- Breakout -- Naples -- Termoli -- Desolation -- The Volturno -- Part III: Winter -- Despair -- Questions of Morale -- A World Turned Upside Down -- Continuous Pressure -- The Winter Line -- Slow Death -- The Sangro -- The Good Cause -- RAINCOAT -- Valley of Death -- The Tyranny of OVERLORD -- Death of a Village -- Try and Try Again -- Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. "Following victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops crossed into southern Italy in September 1943, expecting to drive Axis forces north and liberate Rome by Christmas. Italy quickly surrendered but German divisions fiercely resisted, and the hoped-for quick victory descended into oneof the most challenging and protracted battles of the entire war. James Holland’s The Savage Storm, chronicling the dramatic opening months of the Italian Campaign in unflinching and insightful detail, is unlike any campaign history yet written. Holland has always narrated war at ground level, but here goes further by chronicling events almost entirely through the contemporary eyes of those who were there on all sides and at all levels—Allied, Axis, civilians alike. Weaving together a wealth of letters, diaries, and other documents—from the likes of American General Mark Clark, German battalion commander Georg Zellner, New Zealand lance-corporal Roger Smith, legendary war reporter Ernie Pyle, and Italian politician Filippo Caracciolo—Holland traces the battles as they were experienced across plains, over mountains, through shattered villages and cities, in intense heat and, towards the end of December 1943, frigid cold and relentless rain." -Provided by publisher. 20231220. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Italy. World War, 1939-1945 Italy.