“YOU’RE GOING TO MEET the ‘Boche’! Carve your name in his face,” Major General Lucian Truscott instructed the men of the 3rd Infantry Division on July 4, 1943, less than a week before they came ashore to face German soldiers on Sicily as part of Operation Husky. This statement set the tone for the next two backbreaking—and heartbreaking— years, which Alex Kershaw describes in riveting detail in his latest book, Against All Odds.
Kershaw, the bestselling(2019) and