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May, 1944.
Lieutenant General Mark Clark had his orders: strike fast, seize Valmontone, and crush the retreating German Tenth Army before it could escape. Cut the artery and end the Italian campaign in one blow.

It would be the Allies' greatest victory to date, the gateway to southern Germany blown wide open. But Clark saw something else. Something closer. Rome.

His men had bled in the mud at the Rapido and the Gustav Line. With glory within reach, he asked himself: Why should the British march into Rome while he chased stragglers?

With his army just miles from Valmontone, Clark went dark. As Allied commanders scrambled to locate him, he launched Operation Turtle, a covert pivot toward Rome, a gamble, perhaps even a betrayal.