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Australian Baron Rudolph Von Ripper’s adventurous life included stints as a soldier in three wars and a legacy of artworks depicting the horrors he had witnessed. IN THE MISERABLE WINTER of 1944—as American soldiers battled their way up the boot of Italy, fighting in mud so thick the dead had to be carried off by …
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