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The Battle of Monte Cassino was one of the bloodiest 'set-pieces' during the Italian campaign and, arguably, due to faulty intelligence, one of the most pointless.
6524 - The Fall of Monte Cassino is published by Concord Publications and is written by Robert Michulec with illustrations by Dmitriy Zgonnik . The book consists of 52 Pages containing134 photos and 4 color plates. For those who require it, it has the ISBN 962-361-153-6.

There has been a lot written about the battle previously, but few books have concentrated (almost exclusively) on images of the battle. The book covers the last battle in roughly two parts - the first covering the German Fallschirmjager who were in defence, the second part the II Polish Corps who bore the brunt of the latter stage of the fighting.

In english, there has been an abominable lack of coverage of the enormous contribution made by the Polish Forces. While not redressing the balance entirely, books like this help enormously.
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Jim - thanks for sharing. Very nice to see an English language publication on the fall of the Monastry. I look forward to adding it to my collection. Please forgive my pendantry - the Battles for Cassino were among the bloodiest of the whole war, not just the long hard crawl up the Italian peninsula. Infact the clear comparison is not with other battles of WWII but more akin to the battlefields (and slaughter) of the Western Front twenty years earlier. Whilst this book focuses on the fall of the Monastry, it is worth noting that the battles for Cassino were truly multi-national affairs - something that is forgoten by popular history.. For us Poles, the participation of the II Korpus in the final stages of the last battle for Cassino ulitimately proved bittersweet - truely a hollow victory. Cheers Karol
NOV 17, 2007 - 04:15 AM
I couldn't agree more. While we're on the subject, it was interesting to see the monument to the fallen of Cassino in Warsaw - sometimes we forget just what a terribly high price Poland paid both on the battlefield and in Poland itself..
NOV 17, 2007 - 06:36 AM
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