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Title: The War North of Rome: June 1944-May 1945 by Thomas R. Brooks, Bob Dole ISBN: 0785814000 Publisher: Book Sales Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 5
Summary: Loved it, the real unknown war!!
Comment: I read this book while I was living in Italy, so I found it even more interesting. The fall of Rome happened the same time the Invasion of Normandy did, and with the Battles in Western Europe raging on, this arena of combat has allways been overlooked. While few can name any key battles after the fall of Rome, the combat was as heroic and bloody as in any theater. Brooks does an amazing job of recanting this remarkable campaign. The level of detail is superb, and the book was very easy to read. The vast types of units that are described (US Mountain troops, Ethnic units, and varoius allies) makes the book even more enjoyable. This might be a tough book to find, however keep trying, it is well worth it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Readable but flawed.
Comment: The book is very detailed about the progress of the campaign. But there is a very serious mistake in the last page. Brooks writes that the town of Torbole was destroyed in a house to house battle. This is absolutely wrong, I lived practically next door and can assure you that Torbole survived unscathed. This throws into doubt all the rest of the book. Also there is no record among the population that any American soldiers were killed in tunnel # 5. But while dinamiting the road a contingent of German troops (actually they were from Bolzano)was decimated by a premature explosion and were laid to rest in a side chamber in one of the tunnels; the entrance was then bricked up.
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Title: War in Italy 1943-1945: A Brutal Story by Richard Lamb ISBN: 0306806886 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson ISBN: 0805062882 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 02 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Anzio by Martin Blumenson ISBN: 0815411294 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: World War II in the Mediterranean, 1942-1945 (Major Battles and Campaigns, Vol 2) by Carlo D'Este, John S. D. Eisenhower ISBN: 0945575041 Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: July, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Through My Eyes: 91st Infantry Division in the Italian Campaign, 1942-45 (Hellgate Memories Series.) by Leon Weckstein ISBN: 1555714978 Publisher: Publishers' Group West Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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