Download or read book Mussolini's Island written by John Follain and published by Hodder Headline. This book was released on 2006 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1943, the Allies launched their first assault against Hitler's "Fortress Europe" by invading Sicily. Mussolini's Island portrays the full horror and glory, the fear and the foul-ups of one of the least known but most dramatic and controversial campaigns of World War II—the battle for Sicily.