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...Truman party packed bags, pressed crisp new U.S. bills into the porter's hands, and prepared to motor north to Assisi, Venice and Florence, correspondents cornered him a final time on Salerno and Anzio, got him to admit: "After the fact, a man can always find a better way. The objective was won and that's what counts. I didn't come over here to criticize anybody." So saying, Harry Truman, happy tourist, climbed into his Fiat and roared toward new wonders...
Except for its loving re-creation of England in wartime and an explosive 20-page finale of beachhead action (Canadian-born Author Shapiro himself covered Sicily, Salerno and Normandy as a war correspondent), there is less reason for The Sixth of June to be remembered than remaindered. The fact that it is the Book-of-the-Month Club choice for August may make it an automatic bestseller, but it will strike many readers as 31 days' praise too many...
...SICILY-SALERNO-ANZIO, by Samuel Eliot Morison, could hardly have been pleasant reading for the Allied commanders of World War II. This ninth volume of Morison's history of the naval side of the war (five more to come) criticized Montgomery for his handling of the Sicilian campaign, claimed the Italian surrender was fluffed, and flatly denounced the Anzio invasion as a "mistake...
...SICILY-SALERNO-ANZIO (413 pp.)-Samuel Eliot Morison-Little, Brown...
After World War II, intense, earnest Professor Pellegrino Sestieri, head archaeologist of Salerno and Potenza provinces, convinced a reluctant Italian government that a unique record of Greek and post-Greek civilization might well lie beneath the stones. In 1951, under a $480,000 government grant (made possible by Marshall Plan aid), he started digging with a crew of 46 workmen, and soon found evidence to support his educated guess. Among his rich preliminary finds: a colored, life-size terra-cotta statue of a god, probably Zeus adorned with a thin, Dali-like mustache; a rare, ten-inch nude model...