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First published in Great Britain in 2017
by Electric Monkey, an imprint of Egmont UK Limited
The Yellow Building, 1 Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN
Published by arrangement with HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York, USA
Text copyright © 2017 by Michael Grant
First e-book edition 2017
ISBN 978 1 4052 7385 5
Ebook ISBN 978 1 7803 1655 0
A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library
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Dedicated to 1st Lt. Shaye Haver and Capt. Kristen Griest.
They are saying, “The generals learned their lesson in the last war. There are going to be no wholesale slaughters.” I ask, how is victory possible except by wholesale slaughters?
—Evelyn Waugh, 1939
CONTENTS
PART I
PART II: OPERATION HUSKY THE INVASION OF SICILY
PART III: OPERATION AVALANCHE THE INVASION OF ITALY