Italy's sorrow : a year of war, 1944-1945 /
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...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2008.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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.
