Italy world war ii biography books
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Italy World War Ii
Saving Italy
- By: Robert Edsel
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes—artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt—embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli.
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More Personalities than Art Chasing
- By Craig on 01-17-15
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Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
After serving with the American Fifth Army in Algeria and Tunisia, Norman Lewis, of the British Intelligence Corps, was dumped ashore in Italy along with his team of Americans, to play his role in the Allied effort. With a lack of forward planning and hardly any briefings or guidance - I think he had only one big important mission in the whole book - he records, over the space of nearly a year, his experiences. And it didn't take long to see the desperation, near starvation, and disorganized chaos raining down on the people of Naples.
With bellies rumbling ferociously because of hunger, it was little surprise to see the lengths one would go to just to survive - both legit and, more so, illegal. Including hundreds of folk heading eight miles out of town on foot at 4am to hunt for edible flowers, and mothers offering naked viewings of their tonåring girls at 20 lira a pop. The depravity, despair, and criminal
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The Italian Front: Campaigns of World War II
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Michael E. Haskew
One of a series of books on the land campaigns of World War II, The Italian Front is a superbly illustrated history of the original ‘second front’ in Europe, including artworks of key materiel and uniforms, and campaign maps showing... Read moreRead less
One of a series of books on the land campaigns of World War II, The Italian Front is a superbly illustrated history of the original ‘second front’ in Europe, including artworks of key materiel and uniforms, and campaign maps showing the movement of troops in the theatre. The book is a comprehensive account of the struggle for the Italian mainland, from the landings in Sicily in July 1943 to the seizing of the Brenner Pass in 1945. Campaigns covered include the landings themselves, the battles for Monte Cassino, the landings at Anzio, the liberation of Rome and the various defensive line ba