The Forgotten Front in Northern Italy: A World War II Combat Photographer's Illustrated Memoir of the Gothic Line Campaign [Library Binding]

Robert H. Schmidt (Author)

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Publication Date: August 1994 | ISBN-10: 0899509487 | ISBN-13: 978-0899509488

A U.S. Army Signal Corps combat photographer, the author spent the winter of 1944-45 documenting the Gothic Line campaign, the Florence to Bologna to Bolzano operation that held in check 20 or so crack German divisions. He focused particularly on the brutal infantry battles in the Apennies, the desperate fighting of the Fifth Army in the Po Valley, and the severe weather and terrain that challenged the Allied troops. His memories and photographs of the operations reveal the harsh fighting and sometimes poignant moments of the men engaged in a battle that was overwhelmed by events at war's end and has been largely forgotten by history.

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"more...than a narrative history" -- Military

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• Library Binding: 191 pages
• Publisher: McFarland & Company (August 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0899509487
• ISBN-13: 978-0899509488
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,992,836 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars First Person view of the Gothic Line campaign, April 10, 1999

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This review is from: The Forgotten Front in Northern Italy: A World War II Combat Photographer's Illustrated Memoir of the Gothic Line Campaign (Library Binding)

Be warned: this is a very small book, but it is worth both the wait and the expense to anyone who had a relative in Italy through wrold War II. It gives a brief summary of the fighting from North Africa to Rome, and then provides a first-person account of the rest of the Italian Campaign. There aren't as many pictures as I expected, but those that are there are new (to me at least) and representative of the text. The book gives the reader an idea of what it was like in Italy for the average soldier.