Invasion diary
By: by Richard Tregaskis ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Flint Whitlock.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Tregaskis, Richard, 1916-1973.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy -- Sicily.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.; War correspondents -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Personal narratives, American.; Biography.
Description: "The Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy in 1943 were bloody and pivotal, securing the Mediterranean, capitalizing on the overthrow of Mussolini, and pinning down German troops that could have been used on the Russian Front or in France after D-Day. The men who made the Allied victories in Sicily and Italy possible - soldiers and officers, bombardiers and drivers, doctors and generals - are honored and remembered in these pages by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis."

"Fresh from his days in the field on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal, Tregaskis shares a diary of the Sicilian and Italian campaigns. His experiences take him from bomb-bay doors over Rome to one of the few hotels left standing in devastated Palermo, Sicily, to the chaotic front lines in Italy, where he nearly died from a shrapnel wound."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Random House, 1944. With a new introd.
Includes index.