Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War 1944–45Today Italy is a land of beauty and prosperity but in 1944 45 it had become a place of nightmares, a land of violence, war, and destruction. James Holland's ground breaking account expertly documents the German advance to the stalemate of the Gothic line and a segment of Italian history that has been largely neglected. The war in Italy was the most destructive campaign in the west as the Allies and Germans fought a long, bitter and highly attritional