German column on a roadway near Dnyestr river, Soviet Union.

At the Dnyestr river

German troops suffering during the mud season in the Soviet Union.

The Rasputitsa

Spring 1944: on way to Rome through the Ciociaria, at Esperia, a small town of Southern Latium, the American troops encounter a German graveyard: another mark of the fierce combats taken by Allied forces against the strong German defence during the battle for Rome, with heavy loss for both the parties. In background one of many hills gained fighting inch by inch, sometimes even with the bayonets. Victor Sierra