In September 1943. 450 Allied ships approached Salerno. "Thoughts about the future were the most rosy," Major Warren Thresher wrote, "we will enter the harbor... with an olive branch in one hand and a ticket to the opera house in the other". But it was different: the Germans were not going to leave southern Italy. The road to Salerno and Naples was cruel and bloody. Leaving 1943 . In war-torn Italy, thousands of Allied soldiers were killed, and the ordeal continued. Ahead were Anzio and Monte Cassino - two battles in which the courage and endurance of the soldiers will be subjected to such a test, which they have not yet experienced... But the Allies will make a breakthrough, and Stalin in December 1943 in Tehran will achieve the assurances of Churchill and Roosevelt that the Anglo-American invasion in Western Europe will occur by the spring of 1944 This meant the opening of the Second Front... Meanwhile, Soviet troops near Korsun-Shevchenkovsky defeated the enemy and liberated Kryvyi Rih... Unique photographs, maps of military operations, testimonies of participants in battles and diary entries allow you to imagine all the drama of events, to assess the consequences and scale of losses of this period of war.