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Monte Cassino : Ten Armies in Hell.
The most horrific battles of World War II ring in the popular memory: Stalingrad, the Bulge, Iwo Jima, to name a few. Monte Cassino should stand among them. Waged deep in the Italian mountains beneath a medieval monastery, it was an astonishingly brutal encounter, grinding up ten armies in condition...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | The most horrific battles of World War II ring in the popular memory: Stalingrad, the Bulge, Iwo Jima, to name a few. Monte Cassino should stand among them. Waged deep in the Italian mountains beneath a medieval monastery, it was an astonishingly brutal encounter, grinding up ten armies in conditions as bad as the Eastern Front at its worst. With scholarly care, insightful analysis, and narrative verve, Caddick-Adams has crafted a monumental account of one of World War II's bloodiest battles. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (413 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780199974658 0199974659 |