The Battle of Monte Cassino - Melchior Wankowicz

The Battle of Monte Cassino

Buch | Hardcover
704 Seiten
2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2021-5 (ISBN)
143,40 inkl. MwSt
This book recounts the conquest of Monte Cassino, after months of intense fighting, providing the Allies with an open road for their progress through Italy to victory over the Nazis in Europe. Wańkowicz’s account is based on what he saw himself, as well as interviews with the soldiers who took part in the battle.
Melchior Wańkowicz’s The Battle of Monte Cassino is a unique contribution to the history of World War II, indeed the history of war in general. Composed by the Polish master of reportage, this book provides the reader with an exhaustive history of one of the greatest triumphs of Polish arms: the conquest of the German redoubt of Monte Cassino, after months of intense fighting, which provided the Allies with an open road for their progress through the Italian peninsula and, finally, to victory over the Nazis in Europe. The history of the Battle of Monte Cassino (17 January — 19 May 1944), centered on the Benedictine cloister of the same name, which was a key sector of the Nazi Army’s ‘Gustav Line’ of defense. Besides the history of the long Allied siege and the eventual victory won through the efforts of General Anders’ II Polish Corps, Wańkowicz provides an on-the-spot account of the battle, at which he was present, setting the reader in the very midst of operations by his thorough and lively interviews with the soldiers who took part in it.

Melchior Wańkowicz (1892–1974) is one of the most noteworthy Polish authors of the twentieth century, specifically in the genre of reportage. Charles S. Kraszewski translates from Polish, Czech, and Slovak. Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm is author of over 35 books and Fulbright Scholar.

Introduction by Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm

Chapter 1: Entering the Ring, we Greet Those who Came Before us

Chapter 2: On the Front Lines

Chapter 3: The Players set up their Pieces

Chapter 4: “H” Hour Arrives

Chapter 5: The Attack on 593

Chapter 6: The Battle for the Phantom

Chapter 7: The First Battle for the Gorge

Chapter 8: Gehenna

Chapter 9: Bending

Chapter 10: Interlude

Chapter 11: The Second Attack Begins

Chapter 12: S. Angelo — the Hill of the Angel of Death

Chapter 13: 593 — the Mound of Sacrifice

Chapter 14: The Second Battle of the Gorge

Chapter 15: Crisis

Chapter 16: Victory

Chapter 17. The Gustav Line… is Broken!

Chapter 18: We Blow the Hitler Line to Smithereens

Chapter 19: The Battle of Piedimonte

Chapter 20: Mopping Up

Epilogue

Afterword by Gen. Władysław Anders (London, 1954)

Index of Polish Soldiers Fallen at Monte Cassino

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Einführung Aleksandra Ziólkowska-Boehm
Nachwort Wladyslaw Anders
Übersetzer Charles S. Kraszewski
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 236 mm
Gewicht 1107 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-6669-2021-5 / 1666920215
ISBN-13 978-1-6669-2021-5 / 9781666920215
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