Articles related to "Italian Campaign"

Recounts the events leading up to the fall of Rome to the Allies in WWII

Ortona, Italy, a seaside holiday town, just passed an anniversary of significance. Canada needs to commemorate its soldiers' wartime deeds from this "Little Stalingrad."

For eight days, in December of 1943, Canadian soldiers fought a vicious battle against Hitler's elite paratroopers, in a small Italian seaport named Ortona.

Military historian A.B. Feuer gathers thrilling first-hand accounts of war in "Packs On!: Memoirs of the 10th Mountain Division in WWII."

Nicholas-Charles Oudinot enlisted as a private at age 16 and served France for the next 64 years, rising to become one of Napoleon's Marshals and surviving 24 wounds.

Italy's terrain from the Tyrrhenian Sea through the LIri Valley and to the Adriatic Sea gives ample proof of the difficulties soldiers faced and the sacrifices made.

Diverse in scope the Italian Campaign of World War II lost its prestige once the Allies stormed into Normandy in June 1944, but played a large part in the final victory.

Robert Metcalfe, nearly a World War 2 casualty several times over, became an icon for Canadian veterans and is pictured on the country's $10 bill.

Venice combined business prowess, backed by naval power, with her unique form of republican government to create the most enduring independent state in history.

Benito Mussolini seized control of the Italian Government in 1922 established his Italian Secret Police and would hold a vice-like stranglehold on Italy for 21 years.

Revolutionary France's concerns with their arch political and economic rival, England, moved her to consider furthering colonial and strategic opportunities in Egypt.

The early life of Francisco Pizarro is shrouded in myth and mystery. What is known of this illegitimate, illiterate swineherd and future conqueror of the Inca Empire?