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      The War in the Mediterranean (March 1941-May 1943)
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      The War in the Mediterranean (March 1941-May 1943)

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      The War in the Mediterranean (March 1941-May 1943)

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      The War in the Mediterranean (March 1941-May 1943) book

      ByMartin Kitchen
      BookA World in Flames

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1990
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 28
      eBook ISBN 9781315846460
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      ABSTRACT

      On 10 July 1943 Montgomery's 8th Army and Patton's 7th Army landed on the south coast of Sicily. The Allies caught the Germans by surprise. In an operation involving 'the man who never was', phoney plans for the invasion of Sardinia and Greece were planted on a corpse which was washed ashore and fell into German hands. Hitler was taken in by this deception, although Kesselring, who commanded the troops in Italy, felt that the plans were a hoax and believed that the Allies would land in Sicily. By 1942 native anti-fascism was experiencing a revival, the exiles being hopelessly out of touch with the situation in Italy. On 17 July Roosevelt and Churchill promised that Italy would have an honourable place in the European family of nations if the fascists were deposed. If not, Rome would be bombed. Two days later Rome was indeed bombed, resulting in 1500 deaths, among them General Hazon, the royalist head of the Carabinieri.

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