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In the summer of 1943, while the Axis troops had just withdrawn from North Africa, the Allied forces were about to conquer Europe starting from what Winston Churchill considered the weak link of the Italian-German alliance, Italy, the "soft underbelly of Europe". Through Operation Husky, thousands of young men from different military units, all belonging to the Anglo-American alliance, but of different nationalities, landed in Sicily. Among them was a young Rhodesian photographer, Algernon de Blois Spurr, enlisted in the Southern Rhodesian Air Force, who together with his airborne unit, the 55…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
In the summer of 1943, while the Axis troops had just withdrawn from North Africa, the Allied forces were about to conquer Europe starting from what Winston Churchill considered the weak link of the Italian-German alliance, Italy, the "soft underbelly of Europe". Through Operation Husky, thousands of young men from different military units, all belonging to the Anglo-American alliance, but of different nationalities, landed in Sicily. Among them was a young Rhodesian photographer, Algernon de Blois Spurr, enlisted in the Southern Rhodesian Air Force, who together with his airborne unit, the 55 Squadron of the British Royal Air Force, flew up the boot, in a journey that ended in Rome in the summer of 1944. His small camera, brought with him during the long journey, immortalized moments of war and daily life, constituting an important testimony of those crucial days, which, preciously preserved in a drawer in South Africa, resurface today, thanks to his son who granted the publication, and to the author, who has combined the shots with a meticulous reconstruction of the war events that accompanied the Squadron, and that come to life in this work, in a journey unpublished and sometimes exciting, that from the Sicilian island crosses the peninsula, to the eternal city.
Autorenporträt
Salvo Fagone was born in Catania in 1979, the city where he graduated in Computer Science at the University of Catania.He has always been a scholar of ancient and modern history, and in 2016 he began a collaboration with the DPAA, aninstitution of the U.S. Department of Defense that deals with the search for soldiers missing in war. During the years hehas conducted research at the archives of the AFHRA, at Maxwell AFB, in Alabama, at the NARA in Washington DC, in the United States of America, and also in Canada, at the Library and Archives Canada (LAC), in England, at TheNational Archives (TNA) in Kew, in the French archives Le Service Historique de l'Armée de l'Air (SHAA), in the GermanBundesarchiv and in the New Zealand archives of Auckland. He has written articles for various national and internationalperiodicals. In October 2019, he published his first work, entitled "Reconnaissance on Huskies. The Crucial Role of AirReconnaissance and Ultra Intelligence over Sicily and the Mediterranean. 1940-1943".