Showing posts with label italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label italy. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 July 2011

Sunday, 17 July 2011

May 1945 news reel

Here's a digitised news reel from May 1945, highlighting the Italian theater in true propaganda style.  Also includes some German footage, showing  German civilians suffering from the bombing.

Thursday, 14 July 2011

British WWI graves in Italy

The BBC production From Our Own Correspondent has a nice article about the forgotten dead of WWI, those British soldiers who fought alongside the Italians.  The accompanying article is quite sad.