The Race For Rome: How the Eternal City was saved from Nazi destruction

by Dan Kurzman

Summary

A well researched book about the Allied advance up the "boot" of Italy to liberate Rome, before the German SS could make good on its threat to level the city and destroy priceless treasures of centuries that were inportant in the history of western civilization. Here are the major players in the Italian campaign. Genl Mark Clark, Genl Sir Harold Alexander, Pope Pius X11, Italian resistance leaders and Vatican officals working to save Italian Jews.