Book Review of Images of War
The Italian Campaign 1941-1945
Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives
Author: Philip Lowett
Pen & Sword Books
ISBN: 978-1-39907-311-0
By Ray Mehlberger
Copyright: 2023
MSRP: $28.95
ISBN: 978-1-39907-311-0
By Ray Mehlberger
Copyright: 2023
MSRP: $28.95
The Second World War Italian campaign is often less well remembered than the struggle of the Germans against the western Allies in north-west Europe and against the Soviet Union in the east.
But, this book demonstrates in over 300 black and white, wartime photos, the Italian peninsula was a major theatre of the war in itself,
More than a million Allied troops fought there. More than half a million German and Italians. There were 600,00 casualties and well over 100,000 dead. The soldiers of many nations took part: Americans, Australians, Brazilians, British, Canadians, French, Germans, Greeks, Indians, Italians, Poles and South Africans. In a grueling and protracted sequence of battles across rocky mountainous terrain that made a mockery of Churchill’s description of the “soft underbelly” of occupied Europe.
Every stage of the campaign is represented in the photographs-from the Allied landings in Sicily in 1943, through tenacious defence by the Germans of a series of fortified lines as the Allies struggled north, to the final Allied advance across the Po in April 1945 and the German surrender – as well as showing the soldiers on all sides and the towns and Italian landscapes in which the fighting took place. The photographs record the appalling devastation the warfare left in its wake.
This book is of soft-cover of 235 pages in 7 ½” x 9 ½” page format.
It contains 348 black and white wartime photographs (including the covers),
There is a post card inserted in the book to send to Casemate Publishers, to get more information about Pen & Sword Books and get a 30% discount on future purchases of Pen & Sword Books.
The book contains 13 chapters that cover the years of 1943 to 1945, but not the 1941 that is in the book’s title.
The cover art shows a large black and white photo of allied troops coming ashore at Sicily from landing barges. At the bottom of the cover there are 3 more black and white wartime photos of: Allied troops fighting their way up a slope, 2 Allied soldiers examining a heavy machine gun and a British Bren gun carrier.
The back cover shows Italian civilians standing around an Allied vehicle and a shot of a city street in Sicily.
Many photos of Allied and Axis soldiers, officers and leaders. Many artillery, vehicle and aircraft photos.
A battle map of Italy. Two propaganda posters.
This is a neat picture album. It will be of great interest to modelers and military historians alike.
I sincerely wish to thank Casemate Publishers, the N. American distributor of Pen & Sword Books. All titles by Pen & Sword can be viewed on Casemate’s website at:
But, this book demonstrates in over 300 black and white, wartime photos, the Italian peninsula was a major theatre of the war in itself,
More than a million Allied troops fought there. More than half a million German and Italians. There were 600,00 casualties and well over 100,000 dead. The soldiers of many nations took part: Americans, Australians, Brazilians, British, Canadians, French, Germans, Greeks, Indians, Italians, Poles and South Africans. In a grueling and protracted sequence of battles across rocky mountainous terrain that made a mockery of Churchill’s description of the “soft underbelly” of occupied Europe.
Every stage of the campaign is represented in the photographs-from the Allied landings in Sicily in 1943, through tenacious defence by the Germans of a series of fortified lines as the Allies struggled north, to the final Allied advance across the Po in April 1945 and the German surrender – as well as showing the soldiers on all sides and the towns and Italian landscapes in which the fighting took place. The photographs record the appalling devastation the warfare left in its wake.
This book is of soft-cover of 235 pages in 7 ½” x 9 ½” page format.
It contains 348 black and white wartime photographs (including the covers),
There is a post card inserted in the book to send to Casemate Publishers, to get more information about Pen & Sword Books and get a 30% discount on future purchases of Pen & Sword Books.
The book contains 13 chapters that cover the years of 1943 to 1945, but not the 1941 that is in the book’s title.
The cover art shows a large black and white photo of allied troops coming ashore at Sicily from landing barges. At the bottom of the cover there are 3 more black and white wartime photos of: Allied troops fighting their way up a slope, 2 Allied soldiers examining a heavy machine gun and a British Bren gun carrier.
The back cover shows Italian civilians standing around an Allied vehicle and a shot of a city street in Sicily.
Many photos of Allied and Axis soldiers, officers and leaders. Many artillery, vehicle and aircraft photos.
A battle map of Italy. Two propaganda posters.
This is a neat picture album. It will be of great interest to modelers and military historians alike.
I sincerely wish to thank Casemate Publishers, the N. American distributor of Pen & Sword Books. All titles by Pen & Sword can be viewed on Casemate’s website at:
Highly recommended.