re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Central Italy, you mean.

Sicily was very straightforward, and southern Italy fell pretty quickly.

Plus, once Mussolini fell from power it was only the Germans calling the shots.

I like others wonder if the war could not have been over sooner if the western Allies just stopped in southern Italy and concentrated more on the rest Europe.

But here again is where Churchill was really letting his ego over-ride military strategy.

Indeed, a lot of the war in Europe seems to have been Churchill trying to force his will onto the Americans.

Lots of odd things about the war, I think. That may be true of all wars.