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

Eighty years after its total destruction in the Second World War, the reconstructed Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino in Italy stands as a timeless testament to the enduring legacy of its founder, St ...

The hard-fought campaign to retake Italy from the Germans during World War II has long been overshadowed by Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Normandy. James Holland changed that with three books on the ...