| Description |
xiii, 791 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, plans ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Liberation trilogy ; volume 2 |
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Atkinson, Rick.
Liberation trilogy ;
v. 2
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| Note |
Map on lining papers |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 731-761) and index |
| Contents |
Across the middle sea : Forcing the world back to reason ; Calypso’s island ; “The horses of the sun” ; Death or glory -- The burning shore : Land of the cyclops ; The loss of irrecoverable hours ; “Tonight wear white pajamas” ; “The dark world is not far from us” -- An island redoubt : “Into battle with stout hearts” ; “How I love wars” ; Snaring the head devil ; Fevers of an unknown origin ; A great grief ; “In a place like this” -- Salerno : “Risks must be calculated” ; Plots, counterplots, and cross-plots ; The stillest shoes the world could boast ; The moan of lost souls ; A portal won -- Corpse of the siren : “I give you Naples” ; “Watch where you step and have no curiosity at all” ; The mountainous Hinterland ; “The entire world was burning” -- Winter : The archangel Michael, here and everywhere ; “A tank too big for the village square” ; A gangster’s battle ; Too many gone west -- A river and a rock : Colonel Warden makes a plan ; “Nothing was right except the courage” ; The show must go on -- Perdition : “Something’s happening” ; Through the looking glass ; Jerryland -- The murder space : This world and the next world at strife ; The bitchhead ; “Man is distinguished from the beasts” -- Four horsemen : A fairyland of silver and gold ; The weight of metal ; Dragonflies in the sun -- A kettle of grief : Dead country ; “Put the fear of God into them” ; “You are all brave. You are all gentlemen” ; “On the eve of great things” -- The great prize : Shaking stars from the heavens ; A fifth army show ; The cuckoo’s song ; Expulsion of the barbarians -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
The second volume in a trilogy chronicling the liberation of Europe during World War II focuses on the Allied campaigns in Sicily and Italy, detailing the bloody battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino, as well as the June 1944 liberation of Rome |
| Subjects |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy
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Italy -- History, Military -- 1914-1945
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| LC NO |
D763.I8 A85 2007 |
| Nlm No |
940.5423 A877d |
| Dewey No |
940.54/2145 23 |
| OCLC # |
85019241 |
| ISBN |
9780805062892 |
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0805062890 |
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9780805088618 (pbk.) |
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080508861X (pbk.) |
| Isn/Std # |
(OCoLC)85019241 (OCoLC)191045071 (OCoLC)1018148836 (OCoLC)1042867864 (OCoLC)1164541936 (OCoLC)1165787686 (OCoLC)1303787898 |
| LCCN |
2007007653 |
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