The Italian Campaign is truly an amazing, and often heartbreaking,
story, and it certainly generates sympathy as well as respect for
the soldiers who fought there, particularly the sacrificed Texas
and Polish soldiers as well as the British "D-Day Dodgers." In
addition to the British soldiers, you gain a new and far greater
appreciation of the men in the 36th Texas and Polish Divisions
because of their commitment, heroism and sacrifice in these
battles, much less the many others from multiple nations who fought
in Italy in 1943 and 1944. This book is the first title in the NOVA
Science Publishers Homeland Security Series presenting a walking
tour of World War II battle sites in mainland Italy: 1. A Walking
Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields: From the Salerno Landings to San
Pietro Infine 2. A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields:
Breaking the Gustav and Hitler Lines 3. A Walking Tour of Italy's
WWII Battlefields: From the Anzio Landings to Rome. These books
were derived from the sights and sounds I experienced while on
Marty Gane's South Mountain Expeditions tour called WWII Invasion
of Italy: From Sicily to Rome, which she conducted in September
2014. The late Edwin Cole Bearss was the lead South Mountain
historian for the tour, and helped select our expert history guide
British Lt Col (Retd) Frank de Planta de Wildenberg, a deservedly
renown Italian battlefield tour leader. Franks designed the tour
route, providing the specific strategic and tactical on-the-ground
details we experienced at each stand (tour location) we visited. Ed
Bearss provided insightful color commentary and likened situations
to his own combat experience as a Marine in the WWII Pacific
theater. This book provides the images and narration of Frank and
Ed as we were taken from the Allied seaborne landings at Salerno to
the fights for the high ground surrounding the beachhead to the
devastation wrought at San Pietro Infine, the subject of a
well-known period film by John Houston. During the development of
the Ed Bearss memoir trilogy books (see Footnote 7 above), I
created the preliminary Italian tour history that has been
reviewed, vastly improved and supplemented by Frank de Planta,
necessarily and deservedly the book's first author. Working with
someone like Frank de Planta, as with both Ed Bearss and Barney
Nolan in their memoirs, has proven (almost) as enjoyable as touring
the Italian battlefields. Creating this book series brought back
many emotive sights, sounds, stories and emotions (unfortunately,
not the food) I felt while on the tour. We hope it provides some
sense of that experience for the reader. Many excellent academic
books have been written explaining Italian battlefield events to
the detail, and we include these books in Frank's exhaustive
bibliography. However, this book brings the tour experience, being
there on the ground, as close as possible to reality for the reader
by showing you many images from where the armies fought and died to
set Italy free and attack the "soft underbelly" of the Third Reich.
Its purpose is to have the reader experience the tour as we did,
incorporating images from the extensive video I took that September
in Italy. It was hard to imagine the violence that happened there
over 75 years ago. Our tour guide, Frank de Planta, with color
commentary from Ed Bearss, provided an emotive and accurate
explanation of the events, the scenes, and the sacrifice. We hope
this book provides at least a fraction of the experience many on
this tour experienced there.
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