The Allied Invasion of Italy

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

By the summer of 1943, there were Allied boots on Axis soil. Sicily had been taken, and fascism's grip on Italy was beginning to loosen. But Allied command was faced with a tough decision - what to do next?

Dan is joined by historian, author and broadcaster, James Holland, to explain why they decided to invade Italy proper and tell us how the invasion played out.

Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.

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1:18.0	It's the summer of 1943.
1:20.0	The Allies have landed in Sicily.
1:23.0	There are Allied boots on axis soil for the first significant time during the Second World War.
1:31.0	The invasion of Sicily, although hard fought, is successful, aided by Operation Mincemeat, the
1:36.3	deception plan which you will have heard about on this very podcast.
1:40.8	On the 25th of July, as that campaign is rumbling on, the Italian government fell.
1:46.7	Mussolini was summoned by the king to the royal palace and dismissed and immediately
1:51.4	taken into captivity.
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