Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell
New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Item #1279 8vo 240 x 170 mm., [9 ½ x 6 ½ inches]. xvi + 396pp., including Index. Six preliminary maps; 16 pages in two sections of historical photographs. Publisher’s red paper over boards with silver stamping on spine; photographic jacket. Book Near Fine. Jacket Near Fine: unclipped.
First American Edition; originally published in London in 2012. British military historian Peter Caddick-Adams (1960- ) covers the devastating campaign at Monte Cassino army by army, movement by movement, tactic by tactic—without neglecting the horrific cultural loss of the famous Benedictine monastery, but also without romanticizing it.
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