World War II in Italy

<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>