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Monte Cassino - A German View

By: Pen & Sword Books

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Pen & Sword Books Ltd.)

Last Stocked on 6/6/2021

Product Info

Title
Monte Cassino - A German View
Publisher
Category
Author
Rudolf Bohmler
Publish Year
2015
Pages
314
Dimensions
6.5x9.5x1.25"
NKG Part #
2147855200
Type
Hardcover

Description

As a German battalion commander Rudolf Bohmler fought in the front line during the fierce battles fought at Monte Cassino. After the war he wrote this remarkable history, one of the first full-length accounts of this famous and controversial episode in the struggle for Italy. His pioneering work, which has long been out of print, gives a fascinating insight into the battle as it was perceived at the time and as it was portrayed immediately after the war. While his fluent narrative offers a strong German view of the fighting, it also covers the Allied side of the story, at every level, in graphic detail. The climax of his account, his description of the tenacious defense of the town of Cassino and the Monte Cassino abbey by exhausted, outnumbered German troops, has rarely been equaled His book presents a soldier's view of the fighting but it also examines the tactics and planning on both sides. It is essential reading for everyone who is interested in the Cassino battles and the Italian campaign.