Caroline Moorehead

Twists and turns of the Italian campaign

At War on the Gothic Line and The Winter Fortress are thrilling accounts of the sacrifices and slaughter involved in bringing down Hitler’s regime

issue 17 September 2016

When Rome fell to the Allies on 5 June 1944 General Harold Alexander, commander of the 15th Army, calculated that he would need just 12 weeks to reach the river Po and liberate Italy from the Germans. It took him nearly a year. Christian Jennings’s new book chronicles the months of heavy fighting, the advances and retreats and the enormous losses on both sides as the Allied forces stalled, and the enemy attacked.

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