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A Travel Guide to World War II Sites in Italy (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for A Travel Guide to World War II Sites in ItalyThis new travel guide provides detailed tours of over one hundred WWII sites in central and northern Italy. These sites commemorate the Italian campaign (1943-45), when Allied and German armies battled from one end of Italy to the other. Included are: *war monuments and museums *former deportation camps *military fortifications *war cemeteries dedicated to soldiers of the British Commonwealth, th...
Full description- Publisher: Createspace
- Published: 02 April 2010
- Format: Paperback 106 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Guidebooks
- ISBN 13: 9781450556125 ISBN 10: 1450556124
- Sales rank: 464,236
Full description for A Travel Guide to World War II Sites in Italy
This new travel guide provides detailed tours of over one hundred WWII sites in central and northern Italy. These sites commemorate the Italian campaign (1943-45), when Allied and German armies battled from one end of Italy to the other. Included are: *war monuments and museums *former deportation camps *military fortifications *war cemeteries dedicated to soldiers of the British Commonwealth, the USA, Poland, Italy, Germany, and other nations *former battlegrounds *selected monuments to Italian civilians and the Resistance *museums that concern the Holocaust Each chapter's tours focus on a specific city or region, following the paths of the Eighth Army and the Fifth Army from southern to northern Italy. Included are maps, transportation tips, and a list of nearby hotels. This guidebook thus complements the standard guides to Italy, which rarely comment on WWII locations. Chapter titles are: *Chapter 1: Introduction, Italy 1914-1945 *Chapter 2: Cassino and Caserta *Chapter 3: Pomezia, Anzio, Nettuno,and Borgo Faiti *Chapter 4: Rome (Part A) *Chapter 5: Rome (Part B) *Chapter 6: From Ortona to Rimini, and on toward Bologna *Chapter 7: Sites between Florence and Imola *Chapter 8: Lucca and Western Tuscany *Chapter 9: Sites between Lucca and Bologna *Chapter 10: Bologna *Chapter 11: Day trips from Bologna *Chapter 12: Trieste *Bibliography
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