HeyJaredWW II Gothic Line ghosts haunt modern day Italy, Europe
Italy was on the wrong side of history in WW II and the campaign to defeat Nazis and Italian Fascists is known as the Forgotten Front. Launched after the liberation of Rome, the Gothic Line offensive barely gets a footnote in most military history annals.
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The Backstage ``enemy territory'' Gothic Line story: secret operations, Allied POWS, a motley mix of partisan resistance fighters and the road to Trieste and the Cold War (opens the original)
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As Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin continues to wage his murderous war against Ukraine and his friend U.S. President Donald Trump stands idly by while also creating his own quagmire in Iran and other parts of the Middle East, it has become ever more obvious that the lessons learned from the WWII fight against Nazi fascism have been forgotten. A lot of that has to do with populist politicians from both the far-right and the far-left of the political spectrum in Europe and North America who engage
The WWII Italian and Greek saga: death, destruction, revenge, resistance and a little mea culpa Pr. 2 (opens the original)
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``The further backward you can look, the further forward you can see,'' Winston Churchill By Joe Kirwin When Italian dictator Benito Mussolini joined Adolph Hitler as an ally in WWII, Greece, whose monarch and head-of-state shared direct bloodlines with the British monarchy, allied with the United Kingdom and stood by the British through the dark days of the war when Hitler had overrun the European continent. That was a bond that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill never forgot and played a
Greek Army's Rimini liberation - the 1st Gothic Line breakthrough - was a WWII bright spot overshadowed by Italian, Nazi invasions at home and a post-WWII civil war and military dictatorship Pt. 1 (opens the original)
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``The further backward you can look, the further forward you can see,'' former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the importance of understanding history. By Joe Kirwin There were a lot of unsung heroes among the unique multinational, multiracial armies that fought as part of the Gothic Line Offensive but one that gets little recognition even among historians who have studied the subject for years is the role the Greek Army played. The snapshot of history that most are familiar with whe
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