Downfall of Italy: 1944-1945 (2/2) | Animated History

Start building your own website easily with Squarespace! Get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase using https://www.squarespace.com/armchairhistorian Italy in World War II gets a bad reputation as a nation that never accomplished anything, and was ultimately irrelevant to the outcome of the war. But when the Allies finally decided to invade Italy in 1943, they quickly became stalemated by a series of expert-crafted defensive lines created by the German general Albert Kesselring. Join us as we explore exactly how the invasion that was predicted to last only a few months turned into a grueling ordeal that lasted all the way up until the Axis surrender, and cost the Allies over 300,000 casualties. Sign up for Armchair History TV today! https://armchairhistory.tv/ Merchandise available at https://store.armchairhistory.tv/ Discord: https://discord.gg/zY5jzKp Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArmchairHist Sources: Atkinson, Rick, The Day of Battle, New York: Henry Holt and Co, 2007, Ebook “Invasion of Sicily.” History.com. A&E Television Networks, November 18, 2009. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/invasion-of-sicily. Luconi, S. (2007). “Italian Americans and the Invasion of Sicily in World War II.” Italian Americana, 25(1), 5-22. www.jstor.org/stable/41330565 Parker, Geoffrey, and Williamson A Murray. “The World at War, 1939–45.” Essay. In The Cambridge History of Warfare. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008. www.jstor.org/stable/resrep13982.9. St. Clair, M. (2007). The Twelfth US Air Force: Tactical and Operational Innovations in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, 1943–1944 (pp. 17-32, Rep.). Air University Press. www.jstor.org/stable/resrep13982.9 Royde-Smith, J. G., & Hughes, T. A. (2019). “The Allies invasion of Italy and the Italian volte-face, 1943.” https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II/The-Allies-invasion-of-Italy-and-the-Italian-volte-face-1943 Smyth, Denis. Deathly Deception: The Real Story of Operation Mincemeat. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Zeuhlke, Mark, Operation Husky: The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10 - August 7 1943, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2009, Ebook. Music: Armchair Historian Theme by Zach Heyde Corner Cube by Christian Andersen The Raid by Zach Heyde Thunder from the West by Zach Heyde Purple Hearts by Zach Heyde Dawn Without End by Zach Heyde Leaps by Jay Varton