All Roads Lead to Rome

In May 1944, American forces stood on the doorstep of Rome, tantalizingly close to the Eternal City after an eight-month grind up the boot of Italyyet still so far away. Would German resistance south of the city break at last? Would Allied strategy and politics divert the Americans from the great prize? Would the city fall before D-Day shifted the worlds attentionas well as vital men and materielf...