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ISBN 10: 0826217389
ISBN 13: 9780826217387
Author: John Eisenhower

Italy, from the toe to the Alps, was the scene of the longest, bloodiest, most frustrating, and least understood series of battles fought by the Western Allies during World War II. Now, John S. D. Eisenhower offers a new look at the Italian campaign, emphasizing the Anzio offensive—an operation pushed by Winston Churchill that fell largely to American troops to carry out. It was visualized as an amphibious landing of two Allied divisions behind German lines that would force the Wehrmacht to evacuate all of Italy. But the Germans held on and, with the arrival of reinforcements, nearly wiped out the Allied troops pinned down at Anzio Beach.

By portraying that struggle from the perspectives of both commanders and foot soldiers, this prominent military historian focuses on the experiences of the individuals who fought in the Italian campaign to reveal what the battle at Anzio was all about. But more than the account of one operation, They Fought at Anzio covers the entire Italian campaign, from the landings at Salerno to the capture of Rome.

Eisenhower brings a trained eye to reconstructing the difficult terrain of battle, approaching the Anzio campaign as a contest between opposing commands striving to anticipate and counter the opponent’s moves—not as a field exercise but as a deadly struggle for survival. He analyzes the command decisions that brought about the Anzio stalemate, interspersing his account with personal experiences of the men in the trenches, the nurses of the 56th Evacuation Hospital, and the young officers witnessing the horrors of war for the first time.

As a study in command, Eisenhower’s narrative gives new credit to generals Lucian Truscott and Fred Walker and assesses both the strengths and weaknesses of General Mark Clark, allowing us to grasp the situation as it appeared to those in command. He also offers compelling portraits of German commanders Field Marshal Albert Kesselring and General Frido von Senger und Etterlin.

It has been said that Anzio was a soldier’s battle, remembered more for blood shed than for military objectives achieved. By focusing on the experiences of the soldiers who fought there and the decisions of commanders in perilous circumstances, They Fought at Anzio offers a new appreciation of the contributions of both and a new understanding of this unheralded theater of the war.

They Fought at Anzio 1st Table of contents:

BOOK ONE: THE ROAD TO THE RAPIDO
Prologue

Chapter 1 The Beginning the Landing at Salerno
Chapter 2 The Germans React
Chapter 3 Ordeal of Fire in the Sele Valley
Chapter 4 Salerno to Naples in Ten Days
Chapter 5 The Other Side of the Hill: Frido von Senger and the Gustav Line
Chapter 6 Purple Heart Valley-San Pietro

BOOK TWO: THE PLANNING FOR SHINGLE
Chapter 7 The Inception of Shingle
Chapter 8 Christmas at Carthage, 1943
Chapter 9 Planning Shingle on a Shoestring
Chapter 10 Grim Foreboding-Tragedy at the Rapido

BOOK THREE: LANDINGS AND CONSOLIDATION
Chapter 11 Assault
Chapter 12 Lucas Consolidates the Bridgehead
Chapter 13 Cisterna and Campoleone
Chapter 14 The Arrival of the 56th Evac

BOOK FOUR: THE CRISIS
Chapter 15 The Loss of the Factory
Chapter 16 The Monastery
Chapter 17 The Crisis
Chapter 18 Truscott Takes Command
Chapter 19 Stalemate

BOOK FIVE: BREAKOUT AND THE CAPTURE OF ROME
Chapter 20 Planning Diadem
Chapter 21 Breakout at Cassino
Chapter 22 Rome Is the Prize!
Chapter 23 Velletri-Fred Walker’s Finest Hour
Chapter 24 Rome

Epilogue
Appendix
Afteryears
Bibliography
Index

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