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Cassino 1944: Breaking the Gustav Line

By Howard Gerrard , Ken Ford

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
ISBN
9781841766232, 1841766232
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
47 MB (49481636 bytes)
Series
Campaign 134
Pages
96\97
Time added
2020-09-27 11:47:32
World War 2;History;Military;Military History;Nonf

Description

Osprey's study of Italy's Cassino campaign during World War II (1939-1945). The battle for Cassino was probably the most bitter struggle of the entire Italian campaign. The dominating peak of Montecassino crowned by its magnificent but doomed medieval monastery was the key to the entire Gustav Line, a formidable system of defences that stretched right across the Italian peninsula. This position completely dominated the Liri valley and Route 6, the strategically vital road to Rome. Between January and May 1944 the Allies struggled amid inhospitable terrain and dreadful weather to dislodge the German paratroops that tenaciously defended the vital mountaintop. Ken Ford's book details the dramatic events of the battle to break the Gustav Line.

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