John Bascom

Throughout time, artists have maintained a close relationship with the animal world, which has proved to be an inexhaustible source of inspiration. First, they received inspiration directly from their environment. Next, animals were used in art for their status as domestic friends, symbols of an intimate and familial life, held in particularly high esteem during the Renaissance. Later, in Orientalism, animal art followed the discovery of exotic fauna...

The story of the World War II experience of a soldier in northern Italy during battles as fierce, bloody and contested as any during the war. It Northern Apennines Campaign is little covered in military history despite its dramatic fighting and uncertain outcome.