The Invasion of Italy: a Walking Battlefield Tour from Salerno to Rome

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The Invasion of Italy: a Walking Battlefield Tour from Salerno to Rome

Author: Robert Irving Desourdis

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Italy, despite the recent COVID impact, is a beautiful country where Americans, Britons, Indians, New Zealanders, Canadians, French, Algerians, Tunisians, Moroccans and Poles fought the Germans and Italian Axis partners in World War II. Though there are a few well-known mass-media books covering the history in narrative from with period grainy black and white photos, there are no such books that walk the ground with leading historians, pointing out the scenes of the action and viewing the memorials to the lives lost, particularly the military cemeteries. This book will provide sweeping imagery of the key sites with transcribed on-scene oratory provided by the well-known Italian Campaign historian and tour guide Frank de Planta de Wildenberg, These former British and American soldiers, now history tour guides, walk the ground with our tour group so that we can experience the sites of the Allied-led Campaign on the Italian Peninsula. You see breathtaking views on the shores and in the mountains, particularly the beautiful villages, and the great visibility afforded the Germans in and around all three locations: Salerno, Cassino and Anzio.Frank de Planta de Wildenberg, the lead history guide, has done dozens of tours on these battlefields. He provides access into little known areas tramped by the soldiers who fought there and now often visited by British Army groups to hear Frank's depth of knowledge in what has become his life's work upon retirement from the Army. His wit and wisdom come through his veteran stories and personal experiences in the British Army. He read Modern History at King's College, University of London and was commissioned into The Royal Anglian Regiment in 1984. He retired in 1991 and joined the Army Reserve during which time he commanded East Midlands Officers' Training Corps in Nottingham and conducted numerous battlefield tours in Italy. Frank de Planta was strongly motivated by Fred Majdalany's personal account of Cassino, which sparked an intense interest and he now devotes much of his free time to this fascinating and highly controversial series of battles that, ultimately, led to a costly breakthrough in May/June 1944. His interest then shifted to include Salerno and Anzio, parts of the Italian Campaign that are inextricably linked to the Cassino story.
The Invasion of Italy: a Walking Battlefield Tour from Salerno to Rome
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The Invasion of Italy: a Walking Battlefield Tour from Salerno to Rome

Authors: Robert Irving Desourdis
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-24 - Publisher:

Italy, despite the recent COVID impact, is a beautiful country where Americans, Britons, Indians, New Zealanders, Canadians, French, Algerians, Tunisians, Moroccans and Poles fought the Germans and Italian Axis partners in World War II. Though there are a few well-known mass-media books covering the history in narrative from with period
A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields: from the Anzio Landings to Rome
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A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields: from the Anzio Landings to Rome

Authors: Robert Irving Desourdis
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-05 - Publisher:

The Italian Campaign is truly an amazing, and often heartbreaking, story, and it certainly generates sympathy as well as respect for the soldiers who fought there, particularly the sacrificed Texas and Polish soldiers as well as the British "D-Day Dodgers." In addition to the British soldiers, you gain a new
A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields: Breaking the Gustav and Hitler Lines
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A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields: Breaking the Gustav and Hitler Lines

Authors: Robert Irving Desourdis
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-20 - Publisher:

Bernard Nolan was a member of the "Gentlemen from Hell," the 487th Bomb Group, commanded for a time by Beirne Lay, who went on to write Twelve O'clock High, which became the famous film starring Gregory Peck. Barney was born on November 22, 1922 in Long Island City, New York
A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields
Language: en
Pages: 284

A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields

Authors: Frank De Planta, Robert Irving Desourdis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Nova Science Publishers

"The Italian Campaign is truly an amazing, and often heartbreaking, story, and it certainly generates sympathy as well as respect for the soldiers who fought there, particularly the sacrificed Texas and Polish soldiers as well as the British "D-Day Dodgers." In addition to the British soldiers, you gain a new
A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields
Language: en
Pages: 287

A Walking Tour of Italy's WWII Battlefields

Authors: Frank de Planta, Robert Irving Desourdis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Nova Science Publishers

Bernard Nolan was a member of the "Gentlemen from Hell," the 487th Bomb Group, commanded for a time by Beirne Lay, who went on to write Twelve O'clock High, which became the famous film starring Gregory Peck. Barney was born on November 22, 1922 in Long Island City, New York