The Austrians fortified a narrow wooden bridge in Lodi with fourteen cannons and three battalions, and dared Bonaparte to cross it. Bonaparte ordered a simple frontal assault on the bridge ...

Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Roach (Cherokee, 1912–1984) served with the Fifth Army during the Italian Campaign, the longest continuous combat and some of the fiercest fighting of World War II.

Italy: Italian colonial forces commanded by the Duke of Aosta. Outcome: Defeat of the Italian forces in East Africa. In 1940, Italy controlled Abyssinia, which it had conquered in 1936 ...

By Dr Geoffrey Best. Has an obsession with the Allied landings in Normandy given a distorted view of the achievements of the Italian campaign? By Professor Richard Holmes. How meticulous planning ...