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Fifth Army headquarters in Italy had confidently announced that the Gothic Line was pierced in the center. But some how the Germans were not running. Some how there seemed to be more mountains just ahead. Somehow the Fifth was just inching along...
...successive days official announcements of Fifth Army progress failed to jibe with the operational maps. Headquarters lamely explained that patrols had reached forward points, then came back. Even the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes dared to raise the question with the headline: "Is or Isn't the Gothic Line Cracked?" Wrote Correspond ent Sergeant Jack Foisie...
...Fifth Army advance been slowed down to the same grudging ad vance of hill to hill - when a breakthrough of the Gothic Line has definitely been claimed? That is the question being heard from armchair strategists and also from front-line fighters who could not help but be amazed when they read: Fifth Army Cracks Gothic Line Defenses." Rivers & Rain. While the controversy stirred the rear, G.Ls in the front struggled patiently with the tenacious Ger mans. The Americans fell back before a counterattack, riposted to regain lost ground and more. By week's end, Raticosa Pass was captured...
...across the Apennines in ten days of as rough fighting as any at Cassino, had really wrecked the Line. From the foothills above Bologna they were only 80 miles across the plain from Verona and Padua. The German troops retiring from Rimini, on the eastern end of the Gothic Line, and those holding the western end of the Line near La Spezia now had to race northward or be cut off, for Verona and Padua are their only ways...
...dumpy little man, silent with strangers, responsive among friends, dead at 39 of consumption, Brown was a far better writer than later generations admitted. He filled his novels with seductions, crimes, violence and a robust 18th-Century sentiment, as well as the ghostly trappings of Gothic romances. But the novels "were singularly original, poetic and impressive," and Brown "added a third dimension to the Gothic novel; he suffused his mechanical devices with true horrors of the mind. . . . He was a precursor, in more than one respect, of Poe, Melville, Hawthorne and Henry James. Brown represented, in other words, the native...