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Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War 1944-45 by James Holland (Paperback, 2009)
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780007176441
eBay Product ID (ePID)91862446
Product Key Features
Number of Pages480 Pages
Publication NameItaly's Sorrow: a Year of War 1944-45
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
AuthorJames Holland
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight480 g
Item Width129 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJames Holland
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- 30 Jun, 2021
Sad but true stories of Italy's suffering.
Incredible book. Very informative, but sad. Gives a true view of the terrible times Italy suffered. Would highly recommend it.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 31 Jul, 2020
Good book
Good read about the historyVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 29 Sep, 2020
Dad’s War
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
