Post-war Trieste was run by America, bringing blue jeans, nylons and Martini-fuelled nights. But beneath this image Trieste was really a nest of spies. 6/7
Monte Cassino was the Allied route to Rome, but a mutual lack of trust between the Allies led to a dreadful stalemate in winter 1944. This explains why. 3/7
In the small Italian seaside town of Ortona, the Axis and Allies fought street by street. Newly-released secret documents and eyewitness accounts reveal all. 2/7
German bombers explode Allied boats in Bari's port. Allied soldiers are dying from gas poisoning - which of the Allies authorised this secret shipment of toxic gas? 1/7