In the winter of 1944, the Allied powers had already landed in Southern Italy and were pushing north. It became obvious the ...

But when the Allies finally decided to invade Italy in 1943, they quickly became stalemated by a series of expert-crafted defensive lines created by the German general Albert Kesselring.

British historian and journalist Holland (Fortress Malta) vividly recalls the final year of World War II in Italy in this masterful narrative. The controversial decision to invade Sicily and Italy ...

During my many years of going to Italy as an art tourist, I was only peripherally aware of that nation’s complicated recent political history. Sometimes, ...

At the beginning of February 1944, PFC. John Perkins Jr., along with the Allied Army at Anzio Beach, Italy, had still not been able to break through the German defense. The mail delivery time between ...

After victories in North Africa and Sicily, the Allies invaded Italy in September 1943 and quickly bogged down, as German commander Kesselring fought a brilliant defensive campaign aided by miserable ...

2014-11-27T15:56:16-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/3d1/20141127155710003_hd.jpg1944 silent film of the U.S. Fifth Army being served a turkey diner during World ...

The daughter of a World War II veteran used the internet to track down three children he was photographed with 77 years ago — after almost firing on them. On Monday, they finally met face to face. By ...