From an early age 34-year-old Marco Dalmonte accompanied his father on field trips combing the Adriatic coastal plain and Apennine mountains searching for WWII artifacts and even body parts of soldiers that remained unidentified decades after the Allied Armies engaged in the Gothic Line Offensive. Since that time, Dalmonte's family has accumulated a massive collection of abandoned Army surplus. As he grew older Marco Dalmonte transitioned from combing the old battlefield sites to exploring WWII film archives as well as internet platforms where vintage film and photos are traded. As a result, he gathered a collection of original film material taken primarily by the British Army but also American forces as well as German Wehrmacht. In recent years he has collated the material and engaged on a tour with film presentations customized for more than 50 towns in the Adriatic hills and the coastal plain where the British Eighth Army slogged up northeastern Italy before hitting a brick wall in the form of approximately 500,000 German troops. They were under orders from Hitler to defend at all costs the Senio River that flows from the Apennines towards the Adriatic Sea. By December of 1944 the British Eighth Army, low on arms, soldiers and, perhaps most of all, morale, reverted to WWI tactics and dug in for a four-month battle of attrition. Along a 30-kilometer stretch of the river English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Canadian, New Zealander, Polish, Indian soldiers along with one of the first Jewish armies since Roman times hunkered down and engaged in a fierce, daily barrage of artillery exchanges as well as regular cat-and-mouse guerrilla fighting. Today the territory is still hazardous due to unexploded ordnance. Along with his travels across the region, Dalmonte can guide you along the banks of the Senio River and recount the stalemate that makes visitors understand the agony of battle and the enduring aftermath along one of WWII's least known but decisive military fault lines.