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• Monte Cassino

  

  It is a story of incompetence, hubris and politics redeemed at dreadful cost by the heroism of the soldiersthe cassettes in good conditionmonte cassino tells the extraordinary story of ordinary soldiers tested to the limits under conditions reminiscent of the bloodbaths of world war onethis was where the german commander, kesselring, made his standoxfam bookshop coventry the six-month battle for monte cassino was britain's bitterest and bloodiest encounter with the german army on any front in world war twoat the beginning of italy was the western allies' only active front against nazi-controlled europe, and their only route to the capital was through the liri valleyread by tim pigott-smith and gareth armstrongsmall crack to front of casesee oxfam website for delivery information read morerunning time approximately 6 hourstowering over the entrance to the valley was the medieval monastery of monte cassino, a seemingly impenetrable fortress high up in the 'bleak and sinister' mountainsin a battle that became increasingly political, symbolic and personal as it progressed, more and more men were asked to throw themselves at the virtually impregnable german defences

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