PREVIEW
... were full of activity before sunrise.
Troop columns moved in silence, their boots making noise against the wooden floor.
The Alpine divisions, fresh from training camps in Trentino, carried rucksacks nearly their size, ice axes strapped to their sides.
Their mountain-gray uniforms looked strange in the heat of southern Italy as if someone had painted snowmen into the sun.
Colonel Ricci walked the rows of men boarding the SS Sardegna, barking names from a clipboard ...
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