Sicily '43

Marshalling a wealth of primary and secondary sources into an engrossing narrative, Holland fills a yawning gap in histories of WWII. This magisterial account is a must-read for military history fans. * Publishers Weekly *
Perfect territory for a military historian of Holland’s talents * The Times *
Historians too often neglect that emotional tapestry. War is characterised as arrows on a map, tables of munitions, cold casualty statistics. Holland’s skill lies in bringing these warriors to life with vivid prose. He’s a prolific historian of the war, but each book is constructed with great care and emotional commitment…Holland is obsessed with war, but fortunately does not seem to love it. He recognises its beauty, but also its vileness * The Times *
Holland argues very effectively that the success of Husky was a turning point in the war * Times Literary Supplement *
Holland makes the capture of the island one of the great turning-point battles of the war * Military History Matters *
James Holland delivers the account in his usual engaging style and supplements it with excellent pictures and maps * Soldier Magazine *
Revelatory * BBC History Extra *
Brilliantly blending his historical fact with vivid personal testimony by participants, Holland makes a persuasive case for the conquest of Sicily as a turning-point in the war * Daily Mail *

James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently The Savage Storm and Cassino ‘44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts. He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival, and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels. With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and is a research fellow at St Andrew’s University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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