On to Rome: Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944

Name: On to Rome: Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944
Brand: Pen and Sword
Price: 42.8 AUD

Images of War : Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

By: Jon Diamond

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Paperback | 2 May 2018

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240 Pages

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24.6 x 18.9 x 1.9

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Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of Eighth Army reinforcements from the Adriatic, every effort to capture Monte Cassino failed.

Fifth Army's VI Corps' amphibious landing at Anzio in January, while initially successful stalled in the face of formidable German counter-attacks and the beach-head was effectively besieged.

The stalemate at Anzio and along the Gustav Line was finally broken in mid May by the Allied Spring offensive. After bitter fighting and the total destruction of the famous Benedictine Abbey, the Germans began their withdrawal towards Rome. Days later the reinforced VI Corps broke out of the Anzio bridgehead and linked up with Fifth Army units on 25 May. But by evading the Allied attempt to trap them south of Rome and despite Rome being occupied by the Allies in early June the bulk of the German 14th Army lived to fight another day. The Italian campaign had another nine costly months to run.

This superbly researched account traces the course of the bitterly fought battles between January and June 1944 in words and images.

250 b/w illustrations

About the Author

Jon Diamond MD is a kidney specialist in the USA with a deep interest in the Second World War. He is a keen collector of photographs. Along with other titles his Stilwell and the Chindits, War in the South Pacific and Invasion of Sicily and Invasion of the Italian Mainland: Salerno to the Gustav Line, 1943-1944 are published by Pen and Sword in their Images of War series.

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