The day of battle : the war in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944

Across the middle sea : Forcing the world back to reason ; Calypso’s island ; “The horses of the sun” ; Death or glory

The burning shore : Land of the cyclops ; The loss of irrecoverable hours ; “Tonight wear white pajamas” ; “The dark world is not far from us”

An island redoubt : “Into battle with stout hearts” ; “How I love wars” ; Snaring the head devil ; Fevers of an unknown origin ; A great grief ; “In a place like this”

Salerno : “Risks must be calculated” ; Plots, counterplots, and cross-plots ; The stillest shoes the world could boast ; The moan of lost souls ; A portal won

Corpse of the siren : “I give you Naples” ; “Watch where you step and have no curiosity at all” ; The mountainous Hinterland ; “The entire world was burning”

Winter : The archangel Michael, here and everywhere ; “A tank too big for the village square” ; A gangster’s battle ; Too many gone west

A river and a rock : Colonel Warden makes a plan ; “Nothing was right except the courage” ; The show must go on

Perdition : “Something’s happening” ; Through the looking glass ; Jerryland

The murder space : This world and the next world at strife ; The bitchhead ; “Man is distinguished from the beasts”

Four horsemen : A fairyland of silver and gold ; The weight of metal ; Dragonflies in the sun

A kettle of grief : Dead country ; “Put the fear of God into them” ; “You are all brave. You are all gentlemen” ; “On the eve of great things”

The great prize : Shaking stars from the heavens ; A fifth army show ; The cuckoo’s song ; Expulsion of the barbarians

Epilogue