Jim - thanks for sharing. Very nice to see an English language publication on the fall of the Monastry. I look forward to adding it to my collection. Please forgive my pendantry - the Battles for Cassino were among the bloodiest of the whole war, not just the long hard crawl up the Italian peninsula. Infact the clear comparison is not with other battles of WWII but more akin to the battlefields (and slaughter) of the Western Front twenty years earlier. Whilst this book focuses on the fall of the Monastry, it is worth noting that the battles for Cassino were truly multi-national affairs - something that is forgoten by popular history.. For us Poles, the participation of the II Korpus in the final stages of the last battle for Cassino ulitimately proved bittersweet - truely a hollow victory. Cheers Karol

I couldn't agree more. While we're on the subject, it was interesting to see the monument to the fallen of Cassino in Warsaw - sometimes we forget just what a terribly high price Poland paid both on the battlefield and in Poland itself..