Sicily and the surrender of Italy / by Albert N. Garland and Howard McGaw Smyth ; assisted by Martin Blumenson.

Cont.: Background and Plans -- Allied Strategy in the Mediterranean -- The Axis on the Defensive -- Preparations and Preliminaries -- The Axis Situation -- Final Allied Preparations -- Operations and Negotiations -- The Assault -- The First Day -- The Axis Threat -- Airborne Reinforcement -- The Beachhead Secure -- Continuing the Campaign: the Deicions -- Seventh Army Changes Directions -- The Drive to the Climax -- The Climax -- Dissolution of the Rome-Berlin Axis -- The Drive to the East -- The Battle of Troina -- Breaking the San Fratello Line -- Evacuation -- Brolo -- The end of the Campaign -- The Surrender -- The Quadrant Conference and the Quebec Memorandum -- The Surrender Preliminaries -- The Italian Decision -- The Armistice -- The Renunciation -- The Surrender -- The Dissolution -- The Second Capitulation.