{"product_id":"backwater-war-the-allied-campaign-in-italy-1943-45","title":"Backwater War The Allied Campaign in Italy, 1943-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eBackwater War: The Allied Campaign in Italy, 1943–45 recounts the gritty, often-overlooked struggle on the Italian peninsula from the July 1943 invasion of Sicily through the fall of Rome and the final campaigns into 1945. Edwin P. Hoyt follows the Allied decision to open an Italian front, the Salerno and Taranto landings, the hard inland fighting against determined German defenses, the costly Anzio operation and the destruction of the Monte Cassino monastery, and the eventual June 1944 breakthrough that took Rome — all set against the strategic controversy that left Italy’s final ten months overshadowed by the invasion of France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Stackpole Books (ISBN13: 9780811733823), this compact campaign history is a narrative military study of the Italy theater—focusing on ground operations, Allied strategy, Axis defense, and the challenges of mountain warfare on the Italian peninsula. It is useful for readers interested in the Mediterranean theater, the Italian front 1943–1945, and the operational interplay among Allied, Axis, Italian, British\/Commonwealth, and U.S. forces, offering a clear, campaign-level account that highlights why the campaign has long been regarded as a “backwater” of World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WW2 Bunker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44298893525094,"sku":"9780811733823","price":13.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/4926\/4998\/files\/YyujzkYpuFuFU0TqQFJ3GzwH-7kk1ugqYJ-7lq88_00.jpg?v=1767231064","url":"https:\/\/ww2bunker.com\/products\/backwater-war-the-allied-campaign-in-italy-1943-45","provider":"WW2 Bunker","version":"1.0","type":"link"}