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Cassino: The Four Battles - January-May 1944

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#331808-KJ28
Titel	Cassino: The Four Battles - January-May 1944
Auteur	Ford, Ken
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Ramsbury : The Crowood Press
Jaar van uitgave	2001
ISBN10	1861263953
ISBN13	9781861263957
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered red boards and spine, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs and colour and b/w drawings, 4to.
Samenvatting	Expertly fortified and stubbornly defended by some of Germany's finest troops, the Cassino massif and the devastated town at its foot defied assault by British, American, French, Indian, New Zealand and Polish troops from January until May 1944. When the Gustav and Hitler Line defences were finally swept aside by Field Marshal Alexander's great Operation Diadem in May, General Mark Clark's controversial decision to drive on Rome itself rather than cutting off the retreating German Tenth Army cast into question the prize actually gained by those five months of bloodletting. The grim story of the Four Battles of Cassino is told here in detail, supported by appendices, over 100 photographs and maps and illustrated by a portfolio of specially commissioned colour plates of troops of eight of th... (Lees verder)e armies involved.
Pagina's	127
Conditie	Redelijk — Moisture damage on top.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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