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Cassino 1944: Breaking the Gustav Line

By Ken Ford

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Year
2004
ISBN
1841766232, 9781841766232
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
47 MB (49635229 bytes)
Series
Osprey Campaign 134
Pages
96\97
Topic
History
Time added
2021-06-26 07:52:48

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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