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Italy's Sorrow - A Year of War 1944-45 (Paperback)
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Italy's Sorrow - A Year of War 1944-45 (Paperback)
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Today Italy is a land of beauty and prosperity but in 1944-45 it
had become a place of nightmares, a land of violence, war, and
destruction. James Holland's ground-breaking account expertly
documents the German advance and a segment of Italian history that
has been largely neglected. The war in Italy was the most
destructive campaign in the west as the Allies and Germans fought a
long, bitter and highly attritional conflict up the mountainous leg
of Italy during the last twelve months of the Second World War. For
front-line troops, casualties rates at Cassino and then along the
notorious Gothic Line were as high as they had been along the
Western Front in the First World War. There were further
similarities too: blasted landscapes, rain and mud. For the men who
fought there, Italy really was the hardest campaign. And while the
Allies and Germans were slogging it out through the mountains, the
Italians were fighting their own battles, one where Partisans and
Fascists were pitted against each other in a bloody civil war.
Around them, civilians tried to live through the carnage, terror
and anarchy while, in the wake of the Allied advance, beleaguered
and impoverished Italians were forced to pick their way through the
ruins of their homes and country and often forced into making
terrible and heart-rending decisions in order to survive. 'Italy's
Sorrow' is the first account of the war in that most beautiful of
countries to tell the story from all sides and to include the
experiences of soldiers and civilians alike. Offering extensive new
research, it weaves together the drama and tragedy of a terrible
year of war with new perspectives and material on some of the most
debated episodes to have emerged from the Second World War. It is a
magnificent achievement by one of our finest young military
historians.
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