Two thousand warships, transports and landing boats churned the dark waters of the ancient sea. Planes roared off to the north, loaded with paratroops or towing gliders packed with infantrymen.
The assault on Sicily had begun. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allied commander in North Africa, had set in motion the largest amphibious military operation ever attempted—not excepting Xerxes' expedition against Greece (1,000 boats, 200,000 men). Now for a few hours he had to live with the bleak inner loneliness that comes to a commander when he has made his cast and must...
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