A Soldier's Story about the Forgotten Italian Front, World War II
Author: Jack Vincent West
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13:
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The Italian Campaign: One Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War
Author: Albert DeFazio
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2020-02-28
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1576385132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMerriam Press World War 2 Memoir. As school children, most Americans learned about Wold War II and the attack on Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. But few people know much about the Italian Campaign during that war. Of all the western fronts in World War II, the Italian campaign cost the most lives. One of its survivors, Albert DeFazio, didn't like to talk about his experiences as an American soldier in World War II, but he was also concerned that so little was known about the suffering and death in Italy. It took Albert decades to be able to describe his experiences in World War II - memories that still haunt him. Now, after seventy years, Albert DeFazio has told his story of the war he cannot forget. This new, expanded edition, brings Albert's story to life with new material and images of Scenes from a Forgotten War. 72 photographs and illustrations, 1 map.
Forgotten Battles
Author: Charles T. O'Reilly
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780739101957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKItaly's War of Liberation takes issue with the apparently prevalent attitude among Allied commanders during World War II that the Italian military was ineffective. O'Reilly recounts the little-known story of the significant contribution made by the Italian military during the Italian Campaign, including the contribution of relatively unacknowledged Italian Partisan formations that fought in Italy, France, Yugoslavia, and Greece. Despite the fact that Italians fought on the front lines with the British and American soldiers, and despite the service of the Italian Navy and Air Force, the Allies refused repeated Italian pleas for more involvement in combat. This book not only attempts to correct the record of military history by illustrating the ways in which the Italians were underutilized by the Allies, but it also serves to paint a fair portrait of the Italian military's substantial efforts to defeat Hitler and eradicate Fascism.
A Soldier on the Southern Front
Author: Emilio Lussu
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Published: 2014-02-25
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0847842797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rediscovered World War I masterpiece—one of the few memoirs about the Italian front—for fans of military history and All Quiet on the Western Front An infantryman’s “harrowing, moving, [and] occasionally comic” account of trench warfare on the alpine front seen in A Farewell to Arms (Times Literary Supplement). Taking its place alongside works by Ernst JŸnger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu’s memoir as an infantryman is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in Italy but virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, it reveals in spare and detached prose the almost farcical side of the war as seen by a Sardinian officer fighting the Austrian army on the Asiago plateau in northeastern Italy—the alpine front so poignantly evoked by Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms. For Lussu, June 1916 to July 1917 was a year of continuous assaults on impregnable trenches, absurd missions concocted by commanders full of patriotic rhetoric and vanity but lacking in tactical skill, and episodes often tragic and sometimes grotesque, where the incompetence of his own side was as dangerous as the attacks waged by the enemy. A rare firsthand account of the Italian front, Lussu’s memoir succeeds in staging a fierce indictment of the futility of war in a dry, often ironic style that sets his tale wholly apart from the Western Front of Remarque and adds an astonishingly modern voice to the literature of the Great War.
The Forgotten Front in Northern Italy
Author: Robert H. Schmidt
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA U.S. Army Signal Corps combat photographer, the author spent the winter of 1944-45 documenting the Gothic Line campaign, the Florence to Bologna to Bolzano operation that held in check 20 or so crack German divisions. He focused particularly on the brutal infantry battles in the Apennies, the desperate fighting of the Fifth Army in the Po Valley, and the severe weather and terrain that challenged the Allied troops. His memories and photographs of the operations reveal the harsh fighting and sometimes poignant moments of the men engaged in a battle that was overwhelmed by events at war's end and has been largely forgotten by history.
The Blue Devils in Italy
Author: T/Sgt. John P. Delaney
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2017-06-28
Total Pages: 1151
ISBN-13: 1787205754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 88th Division played a major role in the battle of Italy, where it was rated by the Germans after the summer of 1944 as the best American division in Italy. Because of the outstanding job it did in Italy, the 88th contributed its share to the winning of the war. It was the first of the draft infantry divisions to enter combat on any front in World War II and it was among the top divisions in the American Army. It won its share of territory and honors during its 344 days of combat. It paid dearly for all that it won—it lost 15,173 officers and men killed, wounded and missing in action. Only thirteen other divisions in the U.S. Army suffered heavier losses. The 88th fought its battles on what was called “a forgotten front.” Some day history will appraise the true worth of the Italian campaign in the overall war picture. Military historians will analyze and sift and publish detailed volumes on the operational contribution of the 88th in the battle for Italy. This book is not a history, in the true sense of the word. It is not intended to be such. It is rather the story of a combat division from its beginning to its end. It is a story compiled both from official journals and from the personal experiences of the citizen-soldiers who made up its squads and platoons. It is a story which never can be told in every complete detail. For every one of the incidents related here, a reader can remember scores that are not found in these pages. There are not enough words, or paper, to list them all. The incidents related are considered to be representative of the experiences of the majority of 88th men.
Italian Military Internees
Author: Fouad Sabry
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
Published: 2024-06-22
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is Italian Military Internees The Italian troops who were seized, picked up, and deported in the territories of Nazi Germany during Operation Achse in the days immediately following the armistice that separated Italy and the Allied armed forces during World War II were referred to as "Italian Military Internees" by Germany. This was the official term given by Germany to these individuals. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Italian Military Internees Chapter 2: Military history of Italy during World War II Chapter 3: European theatre of World War II Chapter 4: Italian resistance movement Chapter 5: Italian war crimes Chapter 6: April 1945 Chapter 7: July 1944 Chapter 8: List of concentration and internment camps Chapter 9: September 1943 Chapter 10: Dodecanese campaign (II) Answering the public top questions about italian military internees. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Italian Military Internees.
Italy's Sorrow
Author: James Holland
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2008-04-01
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 1429945435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Second World War, the campaign in Italy was the most destructive fought in Europe - a long, bitter and highly attritional conflict that raged up the country's mountainous leg. For frontline troops, casualty rates at Cassino and along the notorious Gothic Line were as high as they had been on the Western Front in the First World War. There were further similarities too: blasted landscapes, rain and mud, and months on end with the front line barely moving. And while the Allies and Germans were fighting it out through the mountains, the Italians were engaging in bitter battles too. Partisans were carrying out a crippling resistance campaign against the German troops but also battling the Fascists forces as well in what soon became a bloody civil war. Around them, innocent civilians tried to live through the carnage, terror and anarchy, while in the wake of the Allied advance, horrific numbers of impoverished and starving people were left to pick their way through the ruins of their homes and country. In the German-occupied north, there were more than 700 civilian massacres by German and Fascist troops in retaliation for Partisan activities, while in the south, many found themselves forced into making terrible and heart-rending decisions in order to survive. Although known as a land of beauty and for the richness of its culture, Italy's suffering in 1944-1945 is now largely forgotten. Italy's Sorrow by James Holland is the first account of the conflict there to tell the story from all sides and to include the experiences of soldiers and civilians alike. Offering extensive original research, it weaves together the drama and tragedy of that terrible year, including new perspectives and material on some of the most debated episodes to have emerged from World War II.
Begging for Chocolates
Author: Richard Allison
Publisher:
Published: 2017-04-24
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781555718626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKItaly, November 1944. The "forgotten front" of the European war has the Allies bogged down in mud, snow and ice before the formidable Nazi Gothic Line north of Florence, and Italian natives are desperate. Advancing steadily towards Italy are the forces of Tito and Stalin. The author uses actual accounts in the form of previously unpublished G.I. letters, wartime journals and other historical sources to tell the story of the military, political and espionage efforts by the Western Allies that culminated in the early surrender of Axis forces in all of Italy on May 2, 1945.
Home Front Soldier
Author: Philip L. Aquila
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780791440759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a multi-layered social history of a soldier and his Italian American family during World War II.
