Italy Volume II : From Cassino to Trieste
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The end of the
Eighth Army advance which had begun at
El Alamein
in Egypt in October 1942: New Zealanders rest beside their gear in
the Castello San Giusto of
Trieste, in north-east
Italy, in May 1945.
The war against
Germany had been won, but already the ‘cold war’
had started with the confrontation of the Powers of the West and the
East on the frontier of
Yugoslavia