Cassino

by Ian Gooderson

This new series of paperback military history originals is set to revolutionize how selected conflicts and characters of history are studied. In comparison with other mid-format paperback series they contain extensive textual coverage - 50-55000 words - and are written by noted scholars and experts in the subjects, rather than non-specialist writers offering brief and inadequate coverage of a theme. Necessary illustrations and maps are included but are not provided to simply add pages to the book or fill vacant space. The Allied campaign in Italy has, by comparison, been less studied than other World War Two theaters and yet it included not only extensive and genuine Allied collaboration but also air, land and sea deployments and battle-zone conditions and situations not encountered elsewhere in the 1939-45 war. The furious and lengthy battle for Monte Cassino was a unique, extravagant example for it was fought over typically difficult terrain that afforded the defender the advantage, was not capable of being by-passed, and involved many different military strategies. This is one of the finest short studies of this event in particular and the Italian theater in general.

128 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2003

Reviews

[Dennis · Rating 4 out of 5]

a really good book about the battle of Cassino, in Italy in 1944. one of the hardest fought battles of WWII.