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If I had been able to choose 15 significant battles I might have added Wavell’s first Libyan offensive (December 1940), the battle of Smolensk (1941), the <anchor>invasion of Sicily</anchor> (1943), the air-land-sea battle of the Mariana Islands (1944) and the Vistula-Oder Operation (1945).
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# The battle for Sicily, 1943

James Holland tells the story of the dramatic Allied assault on the island of Sicily in the Second World War

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Military historian James Holland tells the story of the dramatic assault on the island of Sicily in 1943 – a key moment in the [Second World War](/period/second-world-war) that saw Allied forces battle to return to ‘Fortress Europe’.

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