Italy's sorrow : a year of war, 1944-1945 /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Holland, James 1970- (συγγραφέας.)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2008.
• Θέματα: Παγκόσμιος πόλεμος, 1939-1945 > Ιταλία.; Ιταλία > Ιστορία, Στρατιωτική > 1914-1945.

 James Holland's ground-breaking account expertly documents the German advance to the stalemate of the Gothic line 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. 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. 

 List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Note on the Text -- Principal Personalities -- Prologue -- Part I: The Road To Rome -- 1 The Eve of Battle: May 1944 -- 2 Battle Begins: 11-12 May 1944 -- 3 Churchill's Opportunism -- 4 The Slow Retreat -- 5 Frustrations -- 6 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea -- 7 Masters of the Skies -- 8 The Battle Rages: 13-16 May 1944 -- 9 New Order -- 10 Breaking the Gustav Line: 17-18 May 1944 -- 11 Achtung Banditenl -- 12 The Fog of War: 18-23 May 1944 -- 13 Break-out: 23-26 May 1944 -- 14 General Clark and the Big Switch: 26-30 May 1944 -- 15 The Fall of Rome: 1-5 June 1944 -- Part II: The Brutal Summer -- 16 The North -- 17 The Problems of Generalship: June 1944 -- 18 The Typhoon Rolls North -- 19 Breaking the Albert Line: 20-30 June 1944 -- 20 The Politics of War -- 21 Differences of Opinion -- 22 Summer Heat: July 1944 -- 23 Crossing the Arno: July-August 1944 -- 24 A Change of Plan: August 1944 -- 25 Despair: August 1944 -- 26 The Gothic Line: 25 August-1 September 1944 -- 27 The Tragedy of Gemmano: 1-12 September 1944 -- 28 Mountain Passes and Bloody Ridges: 12-21 September 1944 -- Part III: The Winter of Discontent -- 29 Death in the Mountains: 22-29 September 1944 -- 30 The Reason Why -- 31 Rain, Mud and Misery, Part I: 1-14 October 1944 -- 32 Rain, Mud and Misery, Part II: 15-31 October 1944 -- 33 The Infantryman's Lot: November 1944 -- 34 The Partisan Crisis: November—December 1944 -- 35 White Christmas: December 1944 -- Part IV: Endgame -- 36 Stalemate: January-February 1945 -- 37 Getting Ready: February-April 1945 -- 38 The Last Offensive: 9-20 April 1945 -- 39 The End of the War in Italy: 21 April-2 May 1945.