PREVIEW
... along the Eritrean highland roads was a curse unto itself.
Along the winding mountain routes between Asmara and the Mareb River, Italian military engineers worked with brutal precision flattening terrain, laying gravel, hammering down makeshift bridges.
Colonel Giuseppe Pizzoli stood by a newly laid segment of road and squinted into the sun.
"How far today?"
A junior engineer replied, "Four kilometers. The blasting ahead slowed us down."
"Only four? We pr ...
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