Table of Contents

The Great Blunder; Uneasy Allies; The Deteriorating Axis; The Defenders; Pantelleria, the Plan and the Air Battles; The Allies Approach; D-Day; Counterattack and retreat; Primosole Bridge; Enter General Hube; Patton Breaks Loose; The Battles of the Hauptkampflinie; The Allies Close In; Operation Lehrgang: A Panzer Corps Escapes; Epilogue; Index.

About the Author

Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., is the author of more than twenty books on World War II. He lives in Louisiana. Friedrich von Stauffenberg, who died in 1989, was an expert on German-armored warfare in World War II.