{"title":"Lloyd Clark","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"anzio-italy-and-the-battle-for-rome-1944-paperback","title":"Anzio: Italy and the Battle for Rome - 1944 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Masterly . . . a heartbreaking, beautifully told story of wasted sacrifice.\" --Vince Rinehart, \u003ci\u003e The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Allied attack of Normandy beach and its resultant bloodbath have been immortalized in film and literature, but the U.S. campaign on the beaches of Western Italy reigns as perhaps the deadliest battle of World War II's western theater. In January 1944, about six months before D-Day, an Allied force of thirty-six thousand soldiers launched one of the first attacks on continental Europe at Anzio, a small coastal city thirty miles south of Rome. The assault was conceived as the first step toward an eventual siege of the Italian capital. But the advance stalled and Anzio beach became a death trap. After five months of brutal fighting and monumental casualties on both sides, the Allies finally cracked the German line and marched into Rome on June 5, the day before D-Day. Richly detailed and fueled by extensive archival research of newspapers, letters, and diaries--as well as scores of original interviews with surviving soldiers on both sides of the trenches--\u003ci\u003eAnzio\u003c\/i\u003e is a harrowing and incisive true story by one of today's finest military historians.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366133596383,"sku":"9780802143266","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YLt90NqDCP9780802143266.webp?v=1789084341"},{"product_id":"the-battle-of-the-tanks-kursk-1943-paperback","title":"The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn July 5, 1943, the greatest land battle in history began when Nazi and Red Army forces clashed near the town of Kursk, on the western border of the Soviet Union. Code named \"Operation Citadel,\" the German offensive would cut through the bulge in the eastern front that had been created following Germany's retreat at the battle of Stalingrad. But the Soviets, well-informed about Germany's plans through their network of spies, had months to prepare. Two million men supported by 6,000 tanks, 35,000 guns, and 5,000 aircraft convened in Kursk for an epic confrontation that was one of the most important military engagements in history, the epitome of \"total war.\" It was also one of the most bloody, and despite suffering seven times more casualties, the Soviets won a decisive victory that became a turning point in the war. With unprecedented access to the journals and testimonials of the officers, soldiers, political leaders, and citizens who lived through it, \u003ci\u003eThe Battle of the Tanks\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive account of an epic showdown that changed the course of history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366139429087,"sku":"9780802145963","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/m5-XsH9N99780802145963.webp?v=1789084381"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/lloyd-clark.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}