The ordinary Roman might have been hungry and cold in the winter of 1944-45 (snow fell in January for the first time in living memory) but his soul was richly fed. When I arrived in November 1944 I ...

Ask a dozen military historians to name the single most pivotal battle or campaign of World War II—the one operation that saw the war’s momentum irrevocably swing from the Axis to the Allied powers — ...

Simon & Schuster, $28, 418 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY PETER BRIDGES The Allied campaign to take Italy in World War II has had less attention in recent years than the 1944 Normandy invasion or the great ...

Expanding upon his classic account of the 1944 Ardeatine Caves massacre, Death in Rome, Katz presents a vivid, well-researched history of German-occupied Rome, from the fall of Mussolini in 1943 to ...

'3000 years in 15 minutes' was the title of a booklet issued to American and British Forces (illustrated above). I hoped to take a little longer. I suspect the booklet was a bit of propaganda for the ...

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers -- Thousands of American and Allied troops striking their greatest blow to throw the Germans out of Italy landed far behind the enemy lines today and swarmed inland from a ...

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Last September I was in Rome which was part of a 60th anniversary Battlefield tour of Italy I had taken, and naturally when in "Roma" I visited the Vatican. This brought back a very vivid memory of ...

"One up and two to go!" Those were the words used by President Franklin Roosevelt in a radio address to the American people on June 5, 1944, announcing that American and Allied troops had successfully ...