Following the Allies through their fierce battles for North Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Southern France, this volume - along with "The War Against Japan" and "The War Against Germany" - constitutes the US Army"s official pictorial record of World War II. This is the story of the joint invasion of North Africa, the American disaster at the Kasserine Pass, Montgomery"s and Patton"s conquest of Sicily, the controversial Anglo-American landing at Anzio, the rugged mountain battles of Northern Italy and Operation Anvil in Southern France.