a. What was the importance of the Allied advance through Italy?
The Italian Campaign, from July 10, 1943, to May 2, 1945, was a series of Allied beach landings and land battles from Sicily and southern Italy up the Italian mainland towards Nazi Germany. Contrary to Winston Churchill's belief that Italy was the "soft underbelly" of Axis-dominated Europe, the Allied campaign in Italy would be a long and bloody undertaking. The war in 1943 On a previous page you read about the key...