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...much of the world Cassino had become a symbol of Nazi invincibility. Three times since January the Germans had turned back whatever Allies-New Zealanders, Americans, British, Indian Gurkhas-had attempted to drive them out of the town and out of the ancient Benedictine monastery on a nearby hilltop. Said a Nazi general order captured last week: "Cassino has become synonymous with underlying heroism for the Germans. Hell to the Führer...
...high hilltop, every day, all day long, an R.A.F. lieutenant equipped with binoculars and telephone sits on a fuel can, spotting aircraft. Two other spotters are Partisan girls roosting on the island's only snow-clad peak. When planes approach they signal by firing their rifles, and these signals are relayed in like manner to battle headquarters, which sounds a siren to alert the island's anti-aircraft gunners...
...Parliament. When defeat came in 1940's summer, Edouard Herriot was President of the Chamber of Deputies. The men of Vichy had no use for the man of Lyon. He retired to his hilltop house in the upper Rhone Valley. In 1942's summer a visitor, Rightest Deputy C.J. Fernand-Laurent found him there, dressed in sweater and cap, smoking his pipe, culling mushrooms in his garden, sighing gently over a thin rabbit stew and the last of his wine. One thing made Edouard Herriot openly indignant: Vichy had sent a policeman to take note of his visitors...
...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...
Romanoglio was another hilltop town, not much different from a hundred others on the Adriatic coast. It had its Fascists who ran the monopolies and made money, its church with its superstitions and its grasp of human weaknesses. Its people went barefoot along its clay roads and never washed their children's faces. On the sides of a few houses were slogans from Mussolini, who committed the great obscenity of urging women to have even more children, and the great blunder of thinking, he could make eight million bayonets out of weeds. Poverty was in Romanoglio before...