num_pages: 504
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Race For Rome: How the Eternal City was saved from Nazi destruction
titlecomplete: The Race For Rome: How the Eternal City was saved from Nazi destruction
genres: World War II, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.