Cassino 1944 Breaking the Gustav Line,9781841766232

Cassino 1944 Breaking the Gustav Line

by Ford, Ken; Gerrard, Howard
ISBN13: 9781841766232
ISBN10: 1841766232
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-04-27
Publisher(s): Osprey Publishing
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Summary

The battle for Cassino was probably the most bitter struggle of the entire Italian campaign. The dominating peak of Montecassino crowned by its magnificent but doomed medieval monastery was the key to the entire Gustav Line, a formidable system of defences that stretched right across the Italian peninsula. This position completely dominated the Liri valley and Route 6, the strategically vital road to Rome. Between January and May 1944 the Allies struggled amid inhospitable terrain and dreadful weather to dislodge the German paratroops that tenaciously defended the vital mountaintop. Ken Ford's book details the dramatic events of the battle to break the Gustav Line.

Author Biography

Ken Ford was born in Hampshire in 1943. He trained as an engineer and spent almost thirty years in the telecommunications industry. He now spends his time as an author and a bookseller specialising in books in military history. He has written a number of books on various Second World War subjects.

Table of Contents

ORIGINS OF THE BATTLE 7(5)
CHRONOLOGY 12(3)
OPPOSING COMMANDERS 15(5)
Allied Commanders
German Commanders
OPPOSING ARMIES 20(8)
The Allied Army
Order of Battle: Allied forces
The German Army
Order of Battle: German forces
OPPOSING PLANS 28(4)
The Allied Plan
The German Plan
US FIFTH ARMY'S ATTACK 32(10)
The French Expeditionary Corps Attack
British X Corps Attack
The Texas Division on the Rapido
The Anzio Landings
THE CASSINO BATTLES 42(31)
The First Battle for Cassino
Attempted Breakout From Anzio
The New Zealand Corps and the Second Battle for Cassino
The Third Battle for Cassino
OPERATION DIADEM: BREAKING THE GUSTAV LINE 73(18)
The Fourth Battle of Cassino
THE BATTLEFIELD TODAY 91(3)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 94(1)
INDEX 95

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