Monte Cassino: ten armies in hell

Waged deep in the Italian mountains beneath a mediaeval monastery, the battle of Monte Cassino was an astonishingly brutal encounter, grinding up ten armies in conditions as bad as the Eastern Front at its worst. This book provides a vivid account of how an array of men from across the globe fought...

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1. Verfasser: Caddick-Adams, Peter 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 2013
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Zusammenfassung:Waged deep in the Italian mountains beneath a mediaeval monastery, the battle of Monte Cassino was an astonishingly brutal encounter, grinding up ten armies in conditions as bad as the Eastern Front at its worst. This book provides a vivid account of how an array of men from across the globe fought the most lengthy and devastating engagement of the Italian campaign in an ancient monastery town.
Beschreibung:Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2015. - Originally published: London : Preface, 2012. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-369) and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 396 S., [8] Bl. Ill., Kt.)
ISBN:9780190254605
DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199974641.001.0001