Ebook: Monte Cassino: a German view

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 The Downfall of Mussolini; 2 Italy Capitulates; 3 The Landing in Italy; 4 Kesselring or Rommel? Cassino or Florence?; 5 In the Rain and the Mud; 6 German Troops Rescue the Monastery Treasures; 7 Monte Cassino-the Prologue; 8 The First Cassino Battle; 9 The Destruction of the Monastery; 10 Anzio-Nettuno-A Miscalculation; 11 The Second Cassino Battle; 12 The Defenders of Town and Abbey; 13 The Third Battle of Cassino; 14 Rome at Last!; 15 A Lost Victory; Epilogue: The Resurrection of Monte Cassino; Bibliography and Sources; Index.;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 graph.