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THE BATTLES FOR MONTE CASSINO

Codice: 257G038

€ 62,50

Gli Autori hanno trascorso alcuni anni studiando le varie fasi della battaglia per Monte Cassino, ripercorrendo i luoghi di battaglia scattando numerose foto per effettuare il paragone: "then and now" e scegliendo foto d'epoca da archivi e collezioni private. L'opera di oltre 400 pagine fornisce una dettagliata trattazione di ciò che è accaduto durante i 4 mesi di duri combattimenti che costarono la vita a 14.000 soldati di 8 nazioni diverse.

The Battles for Cassino encompassed one of the few truly international conflicts of the Second World War. 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. 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. 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 War. Authors Jeff Plowman and Perry Rowe have spent several years studying the conflict together and walking the battlefield to take the hundreds of comparison photographs which are the raison d'etre of all After the Battle publications. Photographs have been selected from archives and private collections around the world to present a balanced view, combined with maps, orders of battle, citations and detailed captions. The Cassino battles, epitomised by the controversial bombing of the monastery which towers menacingly over the battlefield, stand at the centre of the Italian campaign. The dogged defence by a 100,000 men of the German XIV. Panzerkorps under General Frido von Senger und Etterlin, facing a greater multi-national force, was only routed in the end by a gallant French flanking manoeuvre, with the Poles marking the final victory by hoisting their national flag over the ruins of the Monastery.

Lingua

inglese

Illustrazioni

1.000 illustrazioni a colori e in b/n

Pagine

400

Rilegato

si

ISBN
9781870067737