This new Ladybird Expert WW2 history series offers accessible, insightful and authoritative accounts of key points in the most widespread war in history. Discover the mounting conflict and complex campaigns of the war in Italy. From Operation HUSKY to Clark's final offensive, the Allied campaign tightened the noose around Nazi Germany and saw the end of Italian Fascism, though it was at a cost of high civilian casualty and destruction. Written by historian, author and broadcaster, James Holland.