In the final analysis, the future Allied strategy would depend in large measure on whether the enemy collapsed entirely or resisted fiercely in Sicily. Yet who won? The Allies accomplished what they set out to do, conquer the island. But a handful of German and Italian troops, fighting a gigantic delaying action, kept two Allied armies at bay.
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Sicily: Whose Victory? is part of Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century, and is Book #3 in the Campaign Book series.