{"product_id":"a-travel-guide-to-world-war-ii-sites-in-italy-museums-monuments-and-battlegrounds-9781540566041","title":"A Travel Guide to World War II Sites in Italy: Museums, Monuments, and Battlegrounds","description":"This guidebook, published in 2016, describes and gives directions to 200 World War II sites in Italy, including museums, monuments, and former battlegrounds. These memorials honor the soldiers who fought in the Italian campaign, Italian civilians caught in the crossfire, and the Italian Resistance, which aided Allied forces in numerous ways. Noted also are monuments to victims of the Holocaust. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach chapter begins with a brief historical summary that places these memorials in their context. Please note that the pandemic has forced some museums to change schedules; check websites for updated hours. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSUMMARY \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/b\u003e describes Italy's role in WWI, the rise of Fascism, and Italy's alliance with Germany during World War II \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapters 2 and 3\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5 \u003c\/b\u003efocuses 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eC\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehapters 7 and 8\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapters 9--13 \u003c\/b\u003edescribe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapters 14--17\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapters 18--20\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix: \u003c\/b\u003e Excerpts from the journal of Donald Waful, an American soldier who was a prisoner of war in Italy for close to a year \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSAMPLE CHAPTER\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: The Armies at Anzio and Nettuno \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnzio: Beachhead Museum\u003cbr\u003e War memorials in harbor\u003cbr\u003e Anzio War Cemeteries (Commonwealth)\u003cbr\u003eNettuno: Sicily--Rome American Cemetery and Memorial\u003cbr\u003e Memorials in the center of Nettuno\u003cbr\u003e Museum of the Allied Landing\u003cbr\u003eCisterna: Remembering the Rangers\u003cbr\u003eBorgo Faiti: La Piana delle Orme (WWII museum)\u003cbr\u003ePomezia: German Military Cemetery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12256420\"\u003eDonald R. Waful\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-5205977\"\u003eAnne Leslie Saunders\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/13\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781540566041\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1540566048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-TRV\"\u003eTravel\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-TRV009110\"\u003eEurope | Italy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Leslie Saunders is a research associate at the College of Charleston, where she taught for twenty years. Her other publications include the translation of a book about WWII combat in Tuscany. She has a BA from Wellesley College, MA from Columbia University, and PhD from the University of South Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42640870932717,"sku":"9781540566041","price":11.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_d79a29fc-6b83-46db-93d1-37d9f47e1abb.jpg?v=1649080842","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/a-travel-guide-to-world-war-ii-sites-in-italy-museums-monuments-and-battlegrounds-9781540566041","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}