A controversial new history of Tobruk, the heroic year-long siege where British and Australian ‘Desert Rats’ held out against Rommel’s Afrika Korps.
The Allied invasion of occupied France began with the delivery of three airborne and six infantry divisions onto a 60-mile stretch of the Normandy coast.
The joint Allied invasion of Sicily, the first successful attempt to occupy enemy territory, and the precursor for both the invasion of Italy and the later Normandy campaign.