Silver Stars. Майкл Грант

      

      First published in Great Britain in 2017

       by Electric Monkey, an imprint of Egmont UK Limited

       The Yellow Building, 1 Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN

      Published by arrangement with HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York, USA

      Text copyright © 2017 by Michael Grant

      First e-book edition 2017

      ISBN 978 1 4052 7385 5

       Ebook ISBN 978 1 7803 1655 0

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      A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library

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      Dedicated to 1st Lt. Shaye Haver and Capt. Kristen Griest.

       They are saying, “The generals learned their lesson in the last war. There are going to be no wholesale slaughters.” I ask, how is victory possible except by wholesale slaughters?

       —Evelyn Waugh, 1939

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

PROLOGUE

PART I

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

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       PART II: OPERATION HUSKY THE INVASION OF SICILY

       JOURNALS AND LETTERS

       10

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       INTERSTITIAL

       PART III: OPERATION AVALANCHE THE INVASION OF ITALY

       25

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       29

       LETTERS

       30

       31

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