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Arnhem Bridge. El Alamein epitomized Montgomery's battlefield style: a long, careful buildup of matériel superiority followed by a massive frontal attack with secondary flanking pushes. These tactics were successful in many battles-at Mareth, Tunisia, the Sangro River in Italy, and Caen, France-but they also led to some disasters. The most notable was the ill-starred 1944 operation "Market Garden," a Montgomery plan to march straight into Germany's Ruhr Valley by seizing five bridges that crossed the Rhine in Holland. The drive collapsed at the crucial crossing, Arnhem Bridge, with a devastating defeat...
...cliff-hanging road from Amalfi, shouts of "Presidentessa Kennedy" rocked the medieval clifftop town of Ravello, once a haunt of Europe's rich and noble but now a quieter resort of 2,500 population. Before long, vacationing Jacqueline Kennedy and Daughter Caroline were settled in Villa Sangro, the 11th century house rented by Sister Lee Radziwill, and then it was off to the beach. Jackie whizzed out into the choppy bay behind an Italian navy speedboat, holding Caroline on the water skis ahead of her. It was great sport for 100 yards-until mother and daughter nosedived into...
...Villa Sangro in Ravello was built in the 11th century for the first Bishop of Ravello, and has harbored such guests as Richard Wagner and Queen Juliana...
...Kennedy played the summer bachelor in Washington, Jackie Kennedy stayed at Squaw Island near Hyannisport with Caroline and John Jr.-and that meant swimming, walking, trampoline-hopping and waterskiing. Next week she flies to Ravello on Italy's western coast, where Sister Lee Radziwill has rented the Villa Sangro, a 900-year-old, nine-room palace perched 1,200 feet above the Bay of Salerno...
...third river was the Sangro, in Italy. Johnston reports a hilltop debate with a priest about faith and heresy. Then, as in a nervous movie, he shifts the scene to a shattered village where hysterical Italians watched a British private thumping out Moonlight Becomes You on a piano in the smoking ruins. Near by, a Gurkha battalion had established its GHQ without bothering to check for snipers in the upper room. A British officer sent his aide to inspect the attic, and when the Gurkha returned, Johnston recorded this conversation...