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December 1943, Ortona, Italy. An ancient seaport clings to steep cliffs above the gray Adriatic Sea. For three thousand years, people lived among these tightly packed stone buildings and narrow streets. Now, the town has become a graveyard.

German paratroopers from Hitler’s elite 1st Parachute Division have turned Ortona into a fortress. Every house is a bunker. Every staircase is a trap. Every room is a fight to the death. Walls are blown open for movement through the shadows, mines are hidden beneath rubble, and machine guns wait behind every corner. In Ortona, there is no front line—only brutal, meter-by-meter combat in one of the most savage urban battles of World War II.

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