The Battles for Monte Cassino: Then and Now Plowman Jeffrey
The Battles for Monte Cassino: Then and Now Plowman Jeffrey The Battles for Monte Cassino encompassed one of the few truly international conflicts of the Second World War. Between January and May…
Specifikacia The Battles for Monte Cassino: Then and Now Plowman Jeffrey
The Battles for Monte Cassino: Then and Now Plowman Jeffrey
The Battles for Monte Cassino encompassed one of the few truly international conflicts of the Second World War. Between January and May 1944, forces from Britain, Canada, France, India, New Zealand, Poland and the United States, fought a resolute German army in a series of battles in which the advantage swung back and forth, from one side to the other. A strategic town on the road to Rome, the fighting lasted four months and cost the lives of more than 14,000 men from eight nations.
From fire-fights in the mountains to tank attacks in the valley; from river crossings to street fighting, the four battles of Cassino encompass a series of individual operations unique in the history of the Second World