Although the campaign through Italy is perhaps overshadowed by the more dramatic battles in France and on the Eastern Front, it was a crucial phase of the war, forcing Hitler's Italian allies out of the war and tying huge numbers of men and vast quantities of German equipment down at a time when Axis needs were at their greatest elsewhere. From the first landings at Sicily, through the allied landings in southern Italy and the war of attrition as the Allies marched northwards to the surrender of the Italian forces and the ultimate German capitulation, Allied air power was to be of crucial importance. This book is a comprehensive narrative to the conflict from 1943 until the final German surrender of 1945. Drawn from official sources and from detailed research, the book emphasises the importance of the air war to the ultimate Allied success. The well-informed text is complemented by a superb selection of historic photographs illustrating the various types of aircraft involved in the campaign and of the campaign itself.
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The real story of Catch 22,
This review is from: Air War Over Italy (Hardcover)
This is an well-written account which, although it does occasionally get bogged down in the mass of detail which Brookes has accumulated on this crucial but often ignored episode of the war, concentrates equally on the human side, and on the effects on those servicemen involved, both Allied and Axis . As far as is possible in this type of historical writing, Brookes allows the men involved to tell their own story in their own words. The informal, almost chatty style of Brookes' writing makes this a riveting read from start to finish.
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