"And that they see how the food has been so distinctly influenced by so many different factors, by invasion, religion, topography, climate, politics, all of it, and that when they go to Italy ...

“And so from Africa will there be an attack on Italy?” Churchill promised that, yes, there would be. And that’s the moment that made the invasion of Italy inevitable. Churchill – who had ...

VICENZA, Italy — Just over 80 years ago, American troops entered this Venetian city and defeated a ragged but determined German force to reclaim it for an alliance on the cusp of victory in Europe.

Mr. Hemingway was an Allied flight controller during the D-Day invasion of Normandy in June 1944. The next year, in April, he was a squadron commander in Italy when his Spitfire fighter was downed ...