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Sullen Romans watched Fascisti parade. Gestapomen watched the Romans. Suddenly a bomb exploded, followed by shots. Men & women fell, including, the Germans said afterward, 24 Gestapomen.
215 and All That. To defend Syracuse against the Romans (215 B.C.), Archimedes contrived huge rock-throwing slings, long poles thrust from the city's walls to drop missiles on enemy heads, great cranes that hooked into the prows of the Roman ships and hoisted them into the air...
In Naples the Nazis had wrecked military installations (TIME, Oct. 11). They had also planted time bombs in the post office and other nonmilitary buildings. By & large, they had spared Naples' art and churches, but enough damage had been done by Germans and by Allied bombs to make Romans...
The Record. The first Teutonic conqueror of Rome was the ferocious Alaric. In August 410, he and his horde of Goths and Huns stood before the city that St. Jerome called the "clearest light of the universe." Once Rome's terror-shaken citizens had bought off the barbarian with...
The muddy, determined Fifth inched forward, mopped up the hard knots of resistance. One day it trudged into steepled Capua, where Hannibal and his Carthaginians had wintered after slaughtering the Romans at Cannae. There Mark Clark's men stood in a strategic bend of the Volturno River. Across 200...