Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-1945 David Fletcher 1/35 scale model of the

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Escape From Colditz is the iconic game of careful planning and nerves of steel

as seen through the eyes of a maverick soldier

characterised by hideous excess and outrageous atrocities

Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-1945 David Fletcher 1/35 scale model of theBy James Holland During the Second World War, the campaign in Italy was the most destructive fought in Europe a long, bitter and highly attritional conflict that raged up the country's mountainous leg. For frontline troops, casualty rates at Cassino and along the notorious Gothic Line were as high as they had been on the Western Front in the First World War. There were further similarities too: blasted landscapes, rain and mud, and months on end with