World War II in Italy

The Armistice with Italy, signed on September 3, 1943 at Fairfield Camp in Sicily, marked Italy’s formal military surrender to the Allied powers during World War II. Negotiated in secret between the Italian government under Marshal Pietro Badoglio and Allied commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower,…

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The Allied drive toward Rome had stalled. Was the destruction of a historic monastery justified in an effort to break the German line and get the campaign moving again?</span> </span></p>

<p>The former Commander of the Allied Air Forces in the Mediterranean in 1944 repliles.</p>

<p><span class="deck">The furious speaker was Field Marshal Kesselring. The time was 1944. And the “shadow” was cast by Italian partisans and a handful of brave Americans from General Bill Donovan’s O.S.S.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">It was the most devastating enemy surprise attack since Pearl Harbor—but what mysterious affliction were people dying of two days later?</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">“For This Challenge, I Had Come Three Thousand Miles and Thirty-six Years of My Life”</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In a conflict that saw saturation-bombing, Auschwitz, and the atom bomb, poison gas was never used in the field. What prevented it?</span></p>

<p>Seventy-five years ago, Allied soldiers made a daring amphibious landing behind German lines and were soon surrounded in what would become one of the toughest battles of World War II.</p>

<p>Allied soldiers struggled for months to clear veteran German troops dug into the mountains of northern Italy in late 1944 and early 1945.</p>

<p>Nearly killed by a German bomb, Pyle faced the fear and frustration known as “Anzio anxiety” among the American soldiers trapped with him on the beach.</p>