Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: An Unlikely World War II Partnership
What happened when glacier-goggled American ski troops and samba-loving Brazilian soldiers fought side-by-side halfway across the world?
… in a stalemate with Axis troops north of Rome. With a commanding view of the narrow approach to the Po River … forgotten: The fact that during its Italian odyssey, its soldiers fought as joint-combatants with an unlikely set of … the line far too long and lacked adequate rest. Conducting futile frontal assaults undermined by a general lack of …