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Seeking guidance from the mastermind of the Gothic Line: Winston Churchill and his failed efforts to use northern Italy as a launchpad to head off the Soviets in Eastern Europe
``The further back you can look the further forward you can see.'' - Winston Churchill
By Joe Kirwin
There are 57 WWII British Commonwealth Grave cemeteries spread across the entire Italian peninsula. A visit to any one of them is a solemn experience. However impeccably landscaped and manicured all of them are, many are now a small oasis surrounded by noisy, traffic-congested urban sprawl or even motorways where cars and lorries zoom by oblivious to the soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice to turn back the wave of Nazism and Fascism that gripped continental Europe more than 80 years ago…
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