EIGHTH ARMY: FROM THE WESTERN DESERT TO THE ALPS (Pbk)

This book concentrates on the Italian campaign, regarded by Churchill as a "soft underbelly" of the enemy, but which, the Allies soon discovered, was "a tough old gut". The glory days when the Eighth Army turned the tide under Montgomery in North Africa gave way to a long bloody slog up the spine of Italy to redeem a campaign that some regarded as a sop to Stalin's demands for an immediate Second Front.