The Liri Valley: Canada's World War II Breakthrough to Rome Govind Pansare for fans of Sophie Kinsella

for fans of Sophie Kinsella

a three-way split

When Maybell Brumby

ISBN10: 1108407749

The Liri Valley: Canada's World War II Breakthrough to Rome Govind Pansare for fans of Sophie KinsellaFor the Allied armies fighting their way up the Italian boot in early 1944, Rome was the prize that could be won through one of the greatest offensives of the war. The Liri Valley was a long, flat corridor through miles of rugged mountains. At one end stood the formidable Monte Cassino, at the other, Rome. In May 1944, I Canadian Corps drove up this valley toward the Italian capital, facing the infamous "Hitler Line" a bastion of concrete bunkers