Allied forces land at Anzio unopposed, but instead of moving inland and north to Rome, their commanding officer decides to dig in. A battle-hardened war correspondent borrows a jeep and driver and ...

On January 22, 1944, six months after the Allied invasion of Sicily, American and British troops swarmed ashore at Anzio, roughly 30 miles south of Rome. The brainchild of Winston Churchill and ...

The town of Anzio is haunted by the memory of a little girl who may never have existed. The landing at Anzio, 25 miles south of Rome, on 22 January 1944, was a critical moment in the Second World War.

As we were about to learn at an Italian seaport town known as Anzio, the choice of committed leadership of such a mission might be just as important as any of the other factors along with a ...

It was a beautiful sunny day, May 28th 1944, when my unit, the 14th Battalion Sherwood Foresters, started the 'Breakout' from Anzio beach head with the objective of capturing a strong point of the ...