Stalingrad Of The Adriatic: The Town (Part 4)

Holland and Murray close out the battle for Ortona — Christmas 1943 in the rubble, the Canadian Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment fighting room by room, and the grim tactical reality of urban warfare in the Italian campaign. Holland is excellent on the specific mechanics: mouse-holing through walls, the compressed engagement ranges, and why Ortona became a prestige fight neither side could walk away from. This is the kind of granular, theatre-specific operational history that the Italian campaign rarely gets in podcast form, and the series format means the context is already built.