Monte Cassino
Subtitle: ten armies in Hell
By: Peter Caddick-Adams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780199974641
Subjects: Cassino, Battle of, Cassino, Italy, 1944
Description: The five-month Monte Cassino campaign in central Italy is one of the best-known European land battles of World War Two, alongside D-Day and Stalingrad. It has a particular resonance now, because Cassino, with its multitude of participating armies - most notably the American 5th Army under the controversial General Mark Clark - was perhaps Ithe/I campaign of the Second World War that most closely anticipates the coalition operations of today, with its ever-shifting cast of players stuck in inhospitable, mountainous terrain, pursuing an objective set by unknowing politicians in distant capitals, where victory is difficult to define.
Notes: Originally published: London : Preface, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.