Allied invasion of Italy order of battle Reggio di Calabria) British XIII Corps commanded by Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey Commanded by Field Marshal ("Generalfeldmarschall") Albert Kesselring Commanded by General ("Generaloberst") Heinrich von Vietinghoff Commanded by Major-General ("Generalleutnant") Hermann Balck (acting commander). Commanded by Lieutenant-General ("General der Panzertruppe") Traugott Herr. Allied invasion of Italy order of battle Allied Invasion of Italy Order of Battle is a listing of the significant Allied and Axis formations that were involved during the Allied invasion of Italy (the landings at Salerno, Reggio and Taranto) 3 September – 16 September 1943. Allied 15th Army Group under the command of General Sir Harold Alexander. (Operation
The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War book, Frankland also criticised the lack of detail around air deception during the war. Historian Max Hastings called the book a "worthy celebration" of British deception and praised Holt's avoidance of the sensational. M. R. D. Foot said of the book, "as good as it is long." The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War, by Thaddeus Holt, is a 2004 historical account of Allied military deception during the Second World War. The book focuses primarily on the work of Dudley Clarke in the Middle East, John Bevan