Salerno 1943: The Allied Invasion of Italy

by Angus Konstam

In September 1943, in the first weeks of the Allied campaign to liberate Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force of over 80,000 men was nearly beaten back into the sea by the German defenders in a ferocious ten-day battle at Salerno, south of Naples.

This is the story of the tense, bitter struggle around the Salerno beachhead which decided the issue and changed the course of the campaign - for those ten critical days the fate of Italy hung...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184415517X
• ISBN13: 9781844155170
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.4"