The course of the fighting that followed the unopposed Allied landings at Anzio receives detailed treatment in this volume (issues 49-52), while the illustrations include many features of the bridgehead intriguingly familiar since by name though not perhaps for what they looked like — let alone how they appear today. An invitation to visit the Soviet Union to attend the fiftieth anniversary victory parade in Moscow served a dual purpose in providing an ideal opportunity for coverage of the war on the Eastern Front — naturally featuring the once beleagured captial to which the Germans came so close but entered only as prisoners, in droves, and also the city of Minsk, one of the many reduced to ruins in 'The Great Patriotic War'. The sands of Libya, fought over in the Desert War and still bearing the traces, are the scene for an account of many hours spent exploring the desolate landscape in and around part of the Tobruk perimeter. Also revisited for articles in this volume are the area in northern Germany where the action took place in which the last VC of the European war was won; Belgium's notorious SS camp at Fort Breendonk; the village beside a railway line in northern France where the 'Ascq Massacre' resulted from an act of sabotage, and the caves outside Rome in which reprisals were also exacted after a partisan attack; the main locations of the Japanese surrender; a road in france where French and German armour clashed west of the Meuse during the Blitzkrieg. These and other items span a wide range of topics of 'then and now' interest.
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