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Monte Cassino - The Hardest Fought Battle of World War II

By: Anchor Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Anchor Books)

Last Stocked on 4/4/2020

Product Info

Title
Monte Cassino - The Hardest Fought Battle of World War II
Publisher
Category
Author
Matthew Parker
Publish Year
2005
Pages
448
Dimensions
6.5x9.5x1"
NKG Part #
2147572353
Type
Softcover

Description

Monte Cassino is the true story of one of the bitterest and bloodiest of the Allied struggles against the Nazi army. Long neglected by historians, the horrific conflict saw over 350,000 casualties, while the worst winter in Italian memory and official incompetence and backbiting only worsened the carnage and turmoil. Combining groundbreaking research in military archives with interviews with four hundred survivors from both sides, as well as soldier diaries and letters, Monte Cassino is both profoundly evocative and historically definitive. Clearly and precisely, Matthew Parker brilliantly reconstructs Europe’s largest land battle–which saw the destruction of the ancient monastery of Monte Cassino–and dramatically conveys the heroism and misery of the human face of war.