Hell in Italy: the Allies' hardest fight of WW2? : vimarsana

The Allied invasion of Italy in 1943 was envisaged as a swift push on Rome. Yet, as James Holland explains, by the end of the year, the campaign was stymied by German defences far from the capital

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