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S.A.S. Italian Job; The Secret Mission to storm a forbidden Nazi Fortress. - Partisans and SOE in Italy.
S.A.S. Italian Job; The Secret Mission to storm a forbidden Nazi Fortress. - Partisans and SOE in Italy.
Read more about this resource...In 1944 the attack on the 'soft underbelly' of Europe was in progress, American and British and Commonwealth troops had invaded Italy and were fighting their way through. In the meanwhile, Italian Partisans were behind enemy lines waging a war of attrition. The advance began to stall when it reached the mighty and fearsome 'Gothic Line', a more successful version - albeit Axis - version of the Maginot Line. This defensive line was made up of many hundreds of machine gun nests, artillery...