Monte Cassino
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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…
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As part of his journey, my own protagonist had enlisted in Anders’ Army and took part in the Battle for Monte Cassino.
Of the books that I searched through, this was the most useful both in helping me understand the context of the battle and in picturing the physical landscape of the location, which was essential to my understanding of the account I had been given. The book is evidently very well researched by a highly regarded and undoubted expert in his field.
From R. M.'s list on accounts of the Stalinist Siberian Deportations.
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