Download or read book Domenic s War A Story of the Battle of Monte Cassino written by Curtis Parkinson and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a rugged mountain in the center of Italy stands an ancient Benedictine monastery. It is January 1944, and Monte Cassino, the mountain on which the monastery stands, becomes the staging ground for one of the most fiercely fought battles of World War II. Young Domenic and his family, who live on a farm north of Monte Cassino, are helplessly caught in the war. With battle lines approaching, they struggle against all odds. Will they be caught hiding two escaped prisoners-of-war? Will the innocent people sheltering in the monastery survive? This fascinating novel is based on the true story of the fateful events at Monte Cassino during that long cold winter. In the fast-paced style of Storm-Blast and Sea Chase, Domenic's War is Curtis Parkinson at the top of his form.
Download or read book Monte Cassino written by David Hapgood and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the events that culminated in the Allied bombing of the Abbey of Monte Cassino in Italy, citing its location as the only passage to German-occupied Rome, the tragic decision to bomb the abbey, and the devastating winter combat that followed. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Download or read book Monte Cassino written by Matthew Parker and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2005-05-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monte Cassino is the true story of one of the bitterest and bloodiest of the Allied struggles against the Nazi army. Long neglected by historians, the horrific conflict saw over 350,000 casualties, while the worst winter in Italian memory and official incompetence and backbiting only worsened the carnage and turmoil. Combining groundbreaking research in military archives with interviews with four hundred survivors from both sides, as well as soldier diaries and letters, Monte Cassino is both profoundly evocative and historically definitive. Clearly and precisely, Matthew Parker brilliantly reconstructs Europe’s largest land battle–which saw the destruction of the ancient monastery of Monte Cassino–and dramatically conveys the heroism and misery of the human face of war.
Download or read book War and a Child written by Alberto Panetta and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an intimate, probably unique account of a little boy's experiences from his eighth to ninth birthday during the Battle of Monte Cassino in the Second World War. It shows the immense suffering of the Italian population under the German Army through its impact on one close-knit family.The story opens with an overview of a beautiful country town south of Rome, its people, their idyllic, mutually dependent way of life and the wonderful fraternity that sadly was transformed into fear and mistrust. The main story is concerned with the horrors of the German occupation, when daily life became filled with misery, fear and resentment. It follows the struggles and suffering of the little boy's family as they, their aged grandparents and sometimes tiny children take refuge in the mountains, moving in a bitter winter season from the cattle shelters to ice-cold caves where no fire could be lit in daytime for fear of discovery, bare freezing attic rooms- even a pigsty- and surviving constant bombardments, heavy shelling and German raids while suffering the extremes of cold, hunger and terror. There are stories of courage in the face of ruthless interrogators, raids by sadistic soldiers bearing the dreaded SS insignia of the skull, treasured moments of kindness and hospitality from strangers, all forever imprinted on the child's memory.Liberated by the Allied forces at long last after being driven from town to town, the family eventually return to what is left of their homes, only to find themselves in the midst of the horrific daily tragedies caused by the explosives left concealed in the houses and countryside by the retreating German Army.
Download or read book The Battle of Monte Cassino written by Melchior Wankowicz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melchior Wańkowicz’s The Battle of Monte Cassino is a unique contribution to the history of World War II, indeed the history of war in general. Composed by the Polish master of reportage, this book provides the reader with an exhaustive history of one of the greatest triumphs of Polish arms: the conquest of the German redoubt of Monte Cassino, after months of intense fighting, which provided the Allies with an open road for their progress through the Italian peninsula and, finally, to victory over the Nazis in Europe. The history of the Battle of Monte Cassino (17 January — 19 May 1944), centered on the Benedictine cloister of the same name, which was a key sector of the Nazi Army’s ‘Gustav Line’ of defense. Besides the history of the long Allied siege and the eventual victory won through the efforts of General Anders’ II Polish Corps, Wańkowicz provides an on-the-spot account of the battle, at which he was present, setting the reader in the very midst of operations by his thorough and lively interviews with the soldiers who took part in it.
Download or read book Monte Cassino written by Rudolf Bohmler and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a German battalion commander Rudolf Bohmler fought in the front line during the fierce battles fought at Monte Cassino. After the war he wrote this remarkable history, one of the first full-length accounts of this famous and controversial episode in the struggle for Italy. His pioneering work, which has long been out of print, gives a fascinating insight into the battle as it was perceived at the time and as it was portrayed immediately after the war. While his fluent narrative offers a strong German view of the fighting, it also covers the Allied side of the story, at every level, in graphic detail. The climax of his account, his description of the tenacious defence of the town of Cassino and the Monte Cassino abbey by exhausted, outnumbered German troops, has rarely been equalled His book presents a soldier's view of the fighting but it also examines the tactics and planning on both sides. It is essential reading for everyone who is interested in the Cassino battles and the Italian campaign.
Download or read book The Battles for Monte Cassino written by Jeffrey Plowman and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 1187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battles for Monte 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.
Download or read book The Battles of Monte Cassino written by Glyn Harper and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Allied forces' actions in and around Monte Cassino in Italy remain some of the most controversial of the Second World War. Adolf Hitler described them as the battles that came closest to the bitter struggles on the Western Front. The name Cassino has become a touchstone for New Zealanders as a result of the crucial role played there by Kiwi forces, and the controversy surrounding the battles refuses to die down. This reappraisal of the battles brings new information about the events at Cassino to light. The Battles of Monte Cassino is not another campaign narrative but a fresh look at some of the key aspects of the battles - the controversial bombing of the Benedictine monastery, the effectiveness of the commanders involved on both sides, the consequences of the Anzio beachhead, the performance of the Germans - and why four agonising battles were needed to defeat the Germans at Cassino.
Download or read book Monte Cassino written by David Hapgood and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1986 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a detailed, investigative account of the destruction of Monte Cassino, Europe's oldest monastery, in a February 1944 attack by American bombers
Download or read book Monte Cassino written by Peter Caddick-Adams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an authoritative account of the lesser-known yet devastatingly brutal battle waged by the Italian campaign during World War II.
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Download or read book War in Italy 1944 written by Tim Coates and published by Tim Coates Books. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monte Cassino and its ancient Benedictine monastery formed part of the Gustav Line, the German defensive line that crossed Italy south of Rome and blocked the Allies advance to the capital. This extract from an account commissioned by the British government on two years' fighting in the Mediterranean concentrates on the first five months of 1944: the establishment of the bridgehead at Anzio, the four battles for Monte Cassino and the overcoming of the Gustav Line. It draws on official documents and sources of information, as well as on records of conversation and observation, to provide a picture that is at once informative and entertaining. The 46 full-page illustrations, many in colour, describe the horrific battles carried out over inhospitable terrain in the first four months of 1944, the destruction of what was the beautiful Monte Cassino monastery, and the struggles of the local population. Paintings by official war artists convey the horrors and record the daily realities.
Download or read book Cassino written by Ken Ford and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epic WWII battle over a monstrous fortified hill in Italy became a hand-to-hand fight, pitting one infantryman against another--an unusual form of combat in modern warfare. Eye-witness accounts of this unique battle give you an in-depth look at this battle between German paratroopers and British, American, Canadian, French, Indian, and Polish units. Maps and brilliant color artworks bring the battle to life.
Download or read book The Mules of Monte Cassino written by Jim DeFilippi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacrifice, slaughter, and stupidity. The Battle for Monte Cassino, in southern Italy during the bitter winter of 1943-1944, was the most gruesome, spine-wilting, pointlessly devastating battle of America's Twentieth Century, perhaps in all of America's history. The enormity of the mistakes of Monte Cassino was misunderstood and overlooked then and remains under-reported and ignored to this day. Three hundred and fifty thousand dead soldiers, along with no accurate count of the civilian dead, for no reason other than the hubris and egos of men with golden stars pinned on their shoulders, hobnobbing with Popes, Presidents and Prime Ministers. Priceless and irreplaceable art treasures were destroyed for no better reason than incompetence and impatience. Military advantage gained from all of this: nothing. This is the story of that battle told from the fox holes and from the blood-stained rivers, with the hands of wounded and drowning comrades clutching at your legs as you try to swim back to shore. One survivor of the devastation said, "We were all of us mules."
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Download or read book The Fall of Monte Cassino written by Robert Michulec and published by Concord. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monte Cassino written by Ian Osborne (Editor) and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
