This website provides information about World War II Italy through photos, summaries, links, and notes on relevant books, such as the two described below.
A Travel Guide to World War II Sites in Italy provides tours of over 100 WWII museums, monuments, battlegrounds, and cemeteries dedicated to the Italian campaign (1943-45), when Allied and Axis armies battled from one end of Italy to the other. This guidebook, written by Anne Saunders, was published in 2010. Reviews appear on its Amazon website and at these links:
A second book,The Battle of Sommocolonia, describes the history of a Tuscan village from its beginnings until the final months of World War II, when American and Axis forces battled there. Among those killed was Lieutenant John Fox, who sacrificed his life for his fellow soldiers and later was awarded the Medal of Honor.
The original Italian text (La Battaglia di Sommocolonia) and its English translation were published together in one volume in 2012. The authors are Vittorio Lino Biondi and Dario Giannini, with translation by Anne Saunders.
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