What do a homeless corpse, James Bond and the island of Sicily all have in common? As bizarre of a combination as it may ...

From an iconic Baroque square in Palermo to a lavish palazzo in Catania, here are the real-life backdrops of The Leopard.

Meanwhile the Athenian invasion of Sicily did not proceed well. The Segestans had tricked them about the extent of their wealth and military strength, and in 413 Athens was forced to send out ...

A war game based around the invasion of Sicily in 1943. By July 1943, the tides of war had turned on the Germans. Tunsia fell in May leaving no Axis territory in North Africa. On July 5th ...

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delves into the intricacies of Operation Mincemeat - a daring World War II deception strategy that played a pivotal role in the Allied invasion of Sicily. Set against the backdrop of 1943 wartime ...

On the heels of his North Africa success, Montgomery took part in the Allied invasion of Sicily, and worked closely with U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower planning and implementing the D-Day invasion ...

Personnel at U.S. Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily, Italy ... rehearsing for a hypothetical invasion of the alliance's territory by Russia. The drill came almost exactly three years after ...

When someone objected that the stunt might misfire and only call attention to the impending invasion of Sicily, Churchill replied, “I don’t see that that matters. Anybody but a damn fool would ...

The book tells the story of Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, a tall, handsome, wealthy aristocrat who owns palaces and land across Sicily. His comfortable world is shaken with the invasion ...