Italy's Sorrow

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;b James Hollandx{0026}lt;/b es historiador y escritor. Es autor de numerosos libros especializados en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y ha creado, dirigido y presentado varios programas y series de divulgación histórica en la x{0026}lt;i BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic, History y Discovery.x{0026}lt;/i x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p También es cofundador del Chalke Valley History Festival y cofundador de WarGen.org, una página web de recursos sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Además, es miembro de la Royal Historical Society. En Ático de los Libros ha publicado x{0026}lt;i El auge de Alemania (2018), El contraataque Aliado (2019) y Sicilia 1943 (2021),x{0026}lt;/i todos ellos muy bien recibidos por lectores y crítica.x{0026}lt;/p