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Article: Unsunny Italy.(The Liri Valley: Canada's World War II Breakthrough to Rome)(Book Review)
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- The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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* The Liri Valley: Canada's World War II Breakthrough to Rome
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The Italian Campaign of 1943-1945 is often described as the forgotten war, a sentiment that was evident even at the time. The Canadians who fought there described themselves as the "D-Dodgers," the title of a deliberately ironic little ditty about how they managed to miss the hard fighting in northwest Europe by skiving around "sunny Italy." But Italy is not always sunny. The two winter campaigns fought there are the closest World War II gets to the likes of Passchendaele. And the fighting was ...