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  2. Italian campaign (World War II) - Wikipedia

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    [29] [30] [l] On the Western Front of World War II, Italy was the most costly campaign in terms of casualties suffered by infantry forces of both sides, during bitter small-scale fighting around strongpoints at the Winter Line, the Anzio beachhead and the Gothic Line. [31]

  3. Military history of Italy during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The Wehrmacht: The German Army of World War II, 1939–1945. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1-57958-312-1. Rothenberg, Gunther Erich (1981). The Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-20260-4. Sadkovich, James J. (1989). "Understanding Defeat: Reappraising Italy's Role in World War II". Journal of Contemporary History.

  4. Allied invasion of Sicily - Wikipedia

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    The 82nd Airborne during World War II; Historical Museum of the Military Invasion of Sicily, 1943 (Museo Storico dello Sbarco in Sicilia 1943) Dedicated to the historical event which culminated in the liberation of Sicily and Italy from the German occupation; German Soldiers' Cemetery, Motta S. Anastasia, Sicily (in German)

  5. List of heads of state of Italy - Wikipedia

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    During this period, the holders of the title were crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. From the unification of Italy in 1861 to 1946 the head of state was the King of Italy , who was the same person as the King of Sardinia according to the Constitution .

  6. History of the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) - Wikipedia

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    This article covers the history of Italy as a monarchy and in the World Wars.The Kingdom of Italy (Italian: Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 2 June 1946, when civil discontent led to an institutional referendum to abandon the monarchy and form the modern Italian Republic.

  7. Battle of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of the Caribbean refers to a naval campaign waged during World War II that was part of the Battle of the Atlantic, from 1941 to 1945. [3] German U-boats and Italian submarines attempted to disrupt the Allied supply of oil and other material. They sank shipping in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and attacked coastal targets ...

  8. Italian resistance movement - Wikipedia

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    Bella ciao (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbɛlla ˈtʃaːo]; "Goodbye beautiful") is an Italian folk song modified and adopted as an anthem of the Italian resistance movement by the partisans who opposed Nazism and Fascism, and fought against the invading and occupying forces of Nazi Germany, who were allied with the fascist and collaborationist ...

  9. Allied invasion of Italy - Wikipedia

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    The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place from 3 September 1943, during the Italian campaign of World War II.The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group (comprising General Mark W. Clark's American Fifth Army and General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army) and followed the successful Allied invasion ...