In the winter of 1944, the Allied powers had already landed in Southern Italy and were pushing north. It became obvious the ...

Sergio Mattarella, President of Italy, has stressed the importance of supporting Ukraine in a speech marking the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino, a key battle in the Allied Powers’ ...

Nineteen U.S. Army Garrison Italy leaders traveled from Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, and Camp Darby, Pisa, to southern Italy to learn more about the World War II battle sites around Monte Cassino and ...

THE BATTLE OF CASSINO (309 pp.)—Fred Majdalany — Houghfon Mlfflin ($4). The action started out as another ridge-and-river crossing by the victorious Fifth Army as it drove up the length of Italy. An ...

James Holland’s "Cassino ‘44: The Brutal Battle for Rome" is a compelling and meticulously researched account of one of the toughest and most controversial battles of World War II. Holland delivers a ...

ROME – A newly discovered document in the Vatican Archives suggests that a more energetic response from Vatican officials eighty years ago might have prevented the deadly Allied bombing of the ...

MERRILL - Maybe losing the arm saved his life. Ralph Wehlitz can't exactly remember which day shrapnel from a German mortar shell shredded his left hand and lower arm. It was around Jan. 18, 1944, he ...