![]() ![]() ![]() The ensuing long and bitter struggles that marked the culmination of both campaigns are covered with little more than a cursory nod. Accounts of the war in Italy usually stop at the fall of Rome in June 1944. In the case of North Africa, for example, there are reams of books, told from an Allied perspective, that begin with General O’Connor’s trouncing of the Italians in 1940 and end after the Battle of Alamein some two years later. ![]() Far too many historians continue to view the global conflicts of the twentieth century – and especially the Second World War – through the narrow prism chosen by previous generations of writers. ![]()
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