Word: emilian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunrise, at midday and at dusk, church bells call to each other across the Emilian plain. In the past year anticlerical terrorists in the diocese of Reggio Emilia, near Bologna, had answered the bells by murdering five priests. Two months ago the Vatican sent to the tough district a tough bishop, Beniamino Socche...
Through the ankle-deep mud of the Emilian plain, Canadians of the Eighth Army fought from grapevine to grapevine toward Ravenna (pop. 78,000), Byron's favorite Italian town, once an early Christian metropolis and a naval base in the days of Augustus Caesar. Finally the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards drove in from the northwest while the 27th Lancers pushed in from the south. The Germans backed out so quickly there was no time for house-to-house fighting. Residents turned out for the kind of flag-waving reception the toiling troops in Italy had almost forgotten...
Other forces of Lieut. General Sir Richard L. McCreery's Eighth were now across the Lamone River north and south of the Emilian Road town of Faenza, home of faience pottery. In the heavy rain, the British inched to within a mile and a half of the town against hard German counterattacks, in one day netted only 500 yards...
North of these ports was the Arno River and the German "Gothic" line, largely backed by the Appenines. The weak point was Rimini, in flat land on the Adriatic. If the Allies broke through at Rimini, they could fan out into the Emilian plain, flank the entire line. That would end the Germans in Italy...