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Italy’s Sorrow

by James Holland

First published 2008

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After Mussolini’s fall and Italy’s armistice, the country becomes a battlefield between German forces and the advancing Allies. During 1944–45, civilians face occupation, reprisals, bombing, hunger and civil conflict while the front moves slowly through mountains and fortified lines.

Holland follows soldiers on both sides alongside partisans, families and communities caught between Fascist and resistance violence. The campaign’s strategic significance is measured against its human consequences. Liberation does not arrive as a single event but as a prolonged process in which military advance, political revenge and social collapse overlap.

Historical Periods

Italian Campaign of World War II1943–1945 Nazi Germany1933–1945

Genres

Court & Political Fiction

Historical people

Adolf Hitler1889–1945 Winston Churchill1874–1965 Benito Mussolini1883–1945 Bernard Montgomery1887–1976

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