Road to Rome

Benito Mussolini and the rise of the National Fascist Party is chronicled leading up to the war.

The British and Australian forces route the Italians in North Africa.

Benito Mussolini's appetite for building an Italian empire continued to grow with emphatic ambition as his forces invaded Albania with little resistance.

In May 1941, Nazi Germany began an airborne invasion of Crete against Greek and other Allied forces.

Details the Siege of Malta which occurred from 1940–42.

Highlights the First Battle of El Alamein which was fought in Egypt between Axis forces (Germany and Italy) of the Panzer Army Africa and Allied forces of the Eighth Army.

The Battle of Kasserine Pass took place in February 1943 in west central Tunisia. This was the first major engagement between American and Axis forces in World War II in Africa.

The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers.

The Battle of Monte Cassino was a costly series of four assaults by the Allies against the Winter Line in Italy held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of World War II.

The Battle of Anzio condemned the Allies to another year of bloody combat in Italy, notably around the Gothic Line from August 1944 through March 1945.

As the war entered its final stages, the Allied troops continued to take back Italian territory from the Nazi's and were able to cross the Gothic Line.