The Savage Storm: World War II and The Battle for Italy (TRIH ep 399)
1943 · Resource
The Battle for Italy in 1943 proved to be one of the bloodiest and most brutal episodes of the Second World War. Following hot on the heels of their recent victory in Sicily, the Allies crossed the Straits of Messina and entered Italy in September, to fight their way up the Italian peninsula, what Churchill termed “the soft underbelly of Europe”.
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Around 1943
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Apartheid (1948)