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This guidebook describes 200 World War II memorials and museums in Italy, many of which are near WWII battlefields. Reach these profoundly moving sites by using your cell phone or tablet, Google Maps (or a similar app), and the addresses, GPS coordinates, and directions provided for each location. The book opens with a brief summary of Italy's role in World War II. The following nineteen chapters group the sites into 19 tours that begin in Sicily and follow the armies north toward Bologna and Trieste. Please see the summary below for more details. SUMMARY Chapter 1 describes Italy's role in WWI, the rise of Fascism, and Italy's alliance with Germany during World War IIChapters 2 and 3 focus on museums and memorials honoring American, British, and Canadian troops along Sicily's southern and eastern coasts, where Allied armies landed and began the Italian campaign in 1943. Chapter 4 covers the subsequent landing of Allied forces near Salerno, where the U. S. Fifth Army met stiff resistance from German forces. Numerous monuments and several museums mark those events. Chapter 5 focuses on memorials in and near the city of Cassino, where German forces blocked the Allies from advancing for five months in 1944. Included are war cemeteries, battle monuments, and the rebuilt Abbey of Montecassino, which was destroyed during the war and afterwards rebuilt. Chapter 6 concerns the Allied landings at Anzio and Nettuno, towns an hour south of Rome. Here an American cemetery and two Commonwealth cemeteries honor the thousands who died here or in southern Italy. Chapters 7 and 8 are devoted to World War II sites in Rome. These include the Basilica of San Lorenzo, which was damaged by bombs in 1943 and rebuilt soon after the war. Other locations include an apartment building (now museum) used as a prison during the German occupation, and the Jewish Museum, which has exhibits about the deportation of Roman Jews to concentration camps. Chapters 9--13 describe memorial sites in or near Orvieto, Florence, Lucca, and various mountain villages, as well as selected Gothic Line battlegrounds. The latter have the remains of bunkers and trenches. Noted also are monuments to combat on Battle Mountain, where Allied and German troops clashed for over a week in the fall of 1944. Today the top of the mountain has commemorative plaques and statues. Chapters 14--17 focus on memorials to units of the British Eighth Army, which from 1943 to 1945 forced German armies to retreat up the Adriatic coast and then inland to Bologna. Chapters 18--20 provide tours of WWII sites in or near Bologna, and Trieste. Several national monuments are described in detail, including those that honor Italian civilians and the Italian Resistance. Appendix: Excerpts from the journal of Donald Waful, an American soldier who was a prisoner of war in Italy for close to a yearSAMPLE CHAPTERChapter 6: The Armies at Anzio and Nettuno Anzio: Beachhead Museum War memorials in harbor Anzio War Cemeteries (Commonwealth)Nettuno: Sicily--Rome American Cemetery and Memorial Memorials in the center of Nettuno Museum of the Allied LandingCisterna: Remembering the RangersBorgo Faiti: La Piana delle Orme (WWII museum)Pomezia: German Military Cemetery

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🗸 Author(s): Anne Leslie Saunders
🗸 Title: A Travel Guide to World War II Sites in Italy: Museums, Monuments, and Battlegrounds
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