Account documenting the German advance, telling the story from all sides and including the experiences of soldiers and civilians. 'Assiduously researched, enthusiastically narrated... it is hard to believe that this will not be the definitive account of the battle for Italy' }Daily Telegraph Today Italy is a land of beauty and prosperity but in 1944-45 it had become a place of nightmares, a land of violence, war, and destruction. James Holland's ground-breaking account expertly documents the German advance and a segment of Italian history that has been largely neglected.
