The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943
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    [synopsis] => •	James Holland is the pre-eminent
military and WWII historian of our time-the successor to Antony Beevor, Max
Hastings, and Stephen Ambrose. His masterful storytelling is matched by the
depth of his research, which often reframes history. His choice of main
characters presents a vivid picture of the war on all sides at both strategic
and on-the-ground levels.
•	The Savage Storm is the
first book devoted solely to the southern portion of the Italian Campaign. Rick
Atkinson's The Day of Battle (2007) covers the war over 12 months, from
Sicily to the liberation of Rome. Holland vividly chronicles the three brutal,
yet crucial, months from September-December 1943 in more detail and with more
insight than any previous historian. It's essential for a full understanding
and appreciation of WWII. Holland's next book, in Fall 2024, will complete his
narrative of the Italian Campaign, from Monte Cassino in January 1944 to the
liberation of Rome on June 4th.
•	Holland takes his on-the-ground
chronicling of battle to a new level by narrating the conflict almost entirely
through the contemporary eyes of those who lived through it, using
in-the-moment diaries, letters, reports, and other documents from generals,
privates, and citizens alike, which give immediate responses to events not
knowing what will come next. Key characters appear throughout, so we
become connected to them, and the book becomes ever more a human drama.
•	Holland has been pushing the
envelope with his use of primary sources for some time, but The Savage Storm sets a new and vivid standard in the writing about war. 
•	The intensive use of first-person
accounts leads Holland to re-assess long-established narratives about the
Italian Campaign. He lifts up the reputations of Mark Clark and other Allied
leaders, showing how impossibly difficult the Campaign was-challenging
topography; brutal conditions; and especially a lack of Allied support in
shipping and materiel, resources that were being hoarded for the cross-channel
invasion of France to come.
•	The Italian Campaign became the
focal point of WWII. Germany withdrew entirely from the Soviet Union by
February 1944 and D-Day wasn't until June, so the war hinged in Italy for
several key months, and more lives were lost there than in any other theatre of
the war.
•	Holland always walks the battlefields
he describes; even years later they retain their topography and tell their own
stories. For The Savage Storm, he made multiple trips to the Italian
battle theatre, and his vivid descriptions are all the more authoritative for
his having been there.
•	Holland's books are better
illustrated-with maps and photographs-than any other military books
on the market. He has taken map research to a new level, using aerial
photographs during the war to illustrate troop movements. The imagery makes his
books truly definitive and distinctive.
•	A house author with three further
books under contract, Holland's audience in the US grows with each book. Normandy
'44 has now sold over 50,000 copies in all editions and was the
bestselling book on the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Big Week has
sold almost 30,000 copies in all editions, and his latest, Brothers in
Arms, has sold over 20,000 copies. Each of his books has been a main
selection of Military Book Club.
•	Holland's WWII podcast, We Have
Ways of Making You Talk, has reached 2 million downloads, and a discrete
U.S. version of it has been recently launched, so its audience here will grow
substantially in the coming months. 
•	Holland directs the popular Chalke
Valley History Festival each summer in the UK.
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