Author: Lamb, Richard,
Title: WAR IN ITALY 1943-1945 A Brutal Story.
Description: Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1995, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, [xvi], 335pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 5 maps, photo pictorial montage upper wrapper, the author, who took part in the Italian campaign as one of the few Italian speaking British officers of the 8th Army describes it from the fall of Mussolini until final victory, drawing on captured Mussolini documents and on British, Italian and Vatican archives. In particular highlighting an unbroken sequence of German infamies, how German troops massacred in cold blood many thousands of surrendering Italians in the Aegean Islands, the deportation of Italian Jews to Auschwitz, the wholesale killing of Italian hostages and the fate of 600,000 Italian prisoners of war sent to labour camps within Germany.lightly ruubbed at tips, wrappers creased, edges tanned, good

Keywords: war ww2 italy mussolini cassino kesselring partisans pows


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