Third Reich: Southern Front

Author: Time-Life Books Editorial Department
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Publication Date: 2002-02-01
Features: When it comes to World War II, more attention is often given to the Eastern and Western fronts, but few realize that the two-year-long Southern Front, which began in the African desert and advanced into Sicily and Southern Italy, was equally fierce. The once invincible "Desert Fox" Rommel suffered successive defeats under Allied pressure and lost his former prestige; the Nazi German army withdrew from Africa to Sicily, then back to the Italian mainland, and eventually was forced to retreat further north into Italy. And for every step the Allies took forward, they paid a tremendous price in blood and flesh. All of this was of indispensable significance for the complete defeat of Nazism and the overall victory in the anti-fascist war.