The Race for Rome

572 Pages·1975·55.256 MB·English

by  Dan Kurzman

THE RACE FOR ROME

DAN KURZMAN
The Kace 'Rome
for
DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC
GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
1975
Grateful acknowledgments are made for permission to include
copyrightedselectionsfromthefollowing:
General Mark W. Clark Collection, Archives-Museum, The
Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina.
CALCULATED RISK by General Mark W. Clark. Reprinted
by permission ofHarper & Row, Inc.
THE ROME ESCAPE LINE by Sam Derry, pubUshed by
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Reprinted by permission
oftheauthor.
ROMA CLANDESTINAbyFulviaRipadiMeana,publishedby
Ramello-Editore-Corina. Reprinted by permission of the
author.
THE INTERPRETER by Eugen Dolhnann, published by The
HutchinsonPublishingGroupLtd.
A SPY IN ROME by Peter Tompkins, Copyright © 1962 by
Peter Tompkins. Reprinted by permission of Simon and
Schuster, Inc.
BEFORE THE DAWN by Eugenio Zolli. Copyright, Sheed
and Ward, Inc., Publishers. Reprinted by permission of
thepublisher.
Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data
Kurzman,Dan.
TheraceforRome.
Bibliography: p.447.
Includesi—ndex. —
1.World War, 1939-1945 Italy Rome (City)
2. Rome (City)—History—1870- I. Title.
D763.I82R628 g4o.54'2i
ISBN0-385-06555-8
LIBRARYOFCONGRESSCATALOGCARDNUMBER74-272O
COPYRIGHT© 1975BYDANKURZMAN
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Contents
ACKNO^VLEDGMENTS
CHRONOLOGY
PREFACE XIX
PROLOGUE XXm
BEFORE THE RACE
I.