Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans must choose between defending all of a hostile mainland, withdrawing to northern Italy, or withdrawing entirely into Germany itself...
...Germans in eastern Sicily could stage a rear-guard action, covering a retreat of their main forces. Or they could stand. Either choice would delay the Allies. Neither could save Sicily and the nearest approach to the Italian mainland...
...Time Has Come. Some Sicilians warned their visitors that Fascismo on the mainland was in much tighter control than it was on the island. If so, Fascismo in Italy was certainly worried. Fascist Editor Roberto Farinacci cried out against nincompoop generals and flabby dignitaries in the Mussolini hierarchy. The people were told that Germany could not spare planes or men for Italy from the Russian front. Mussolini extended the zone of military rule to the two southern provinces opposite Sicily...
...this mainland scene, shaken by bombings from the south and from Britain, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill aimed a message...
...standing out from Syracusae (TIME, Ides of Maius, 211 B.C.). Bomilcar said the wind had been against him. His fellow Carthaginians knew the coward had lost the last chance to break the flow of Roman strength where Scylla & Charybdis guard the narrow straits between Messana and Rhegium on the mainland...