num_pages: 464
description: A story about the Allied assault on Monte Cassino in February 1944 seen through the eyes of Colonel Yuell and his men of the North Yorkshires, veterans of the Desert Campaign in Africa. Famous for its hilltop monastery for over a thousand years, Monte Cassino achieved a new renown when it became a German bastion against the Allied advance through Italy. Even when the abbey buildings had been reduced to rubble, the mountain itself continued to command the adjoining river valleys and to black the road to Rome.
language: English
title: Swordpoint
titlecomplete: Swordpoint (U)
genres: Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 17
publisher: Ulverscroft