Dan Walker’s Reviews > The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 > Status Update
Dan Walker
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Man's inhumanity to man comes out in war. The Germans ruthlessly looted Naples, destroyed priceless artifacts, and creatively destroyed what they couldn't carry off. And yet Naples was lucky. Just as the Allies were learning how to conduct amphibious attacks, the Germans were learning how to destroy cities they were evacuating. Future cities would fare worse.
— Dec 26, 2021 05:24AM
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Dan Walker
is on page 276 of 793
Huh. 100s die when the Germans launch a surprise attack on the port of Bari, Italy. One ship sunk was carrying mustard gas, which subsequently killed and hurt probably 1000s of people who would have been helped just by washing them off and removing their soaked clothing - if medical personnel had known. It would be decades before this was acknowledged. So much for the "Good War."
— Dec 26, 2021 09:38AM
Dan Walker
is on page 175 of 793
Well if you genuflect at the altars of the heroes of WWII-better skip Part One, as the Allies launch the greatest diversionary attack in history. FDR makes decisions by refusing to do so, Churchill is overbearing, Eisenhower contributes zero, and Patton is an asshole. No one has a strategic plan as the generals allow the Germans to easily escape Sicily. The price is always the lives of soldiers and sailors.
— Dec 24, 2021 05:48AM
