Word: gessapolina
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...Eighth Army trudged into Gessapolina, a hilltop hamlet on Italy's Adriatic flank. War had wrecked the terraced cluster of dwellings, scattered their brick walls, shattered their oaken rafters. Through the debris, toward Allied soldiers gathered at the municipal piazza hurried five Italians. One of them paused to wash his hands in the piazza's muddy fountain. Another cried...
...They would be back for Tony's pig for New Year's. Tony, his son and their friends waited. From ambush they fired an Italian rifle and an Italian machine gun. They tossed the bodies into a quickly dug grave and scrambled up a steep path to Gessapolina. There they had the protection of British patrols...
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