FA:: Fatal Decision, Anzio & The Battle For Rome, TPB
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Anzio & The Battle For Rome
Carlo D’Este
In January 1944 an Allied task force landed at Anzio on Italy's west coast,
its mission to draw German forces away from the Cassino bottleneck and open
the way to Rome. The landing was only lightly opposed but the Germans soon
counterattacked, and for five months U.S. general John Lucas's
Anglo-American VI Corps fought desperately to retain its fragile beachhead.
D'Este's account of this bloody struggle and the subsequent capture of Rome
is well researched and vividly told. The political, strategic and tactical
aspects of the campaign are carefully reviewed, as are the dynamics of
leadership on both sides. D'Este sorts out the still-simmering controversy
over whether Lucas missed a great opportunity by not attempting to capture
Rome early in the campaign when it was presumably undefended. First-class
military history with illustrations.
HarperPerennial, New York, 1992, first paperback edition, 566 pages, 5 Ľ" x
8", trade paperback, illustrated.
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