Peter Caddick-Adams, one of the world's authorities on battle field history, writes a compelling and authoritative account of the greatest battle of the Italian campaign of World War Two.
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 the campaign of the Second World War that most closely...