Anzio: Italy and the Battle for Rome - 1944 - Softcover

Clark, Lloyd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802143261 ISBN 13: 9780802143266

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007

Synopsis

"Masterly . . . a heartbreaking, beautifully told story of wasted sacrifice." --Vince Rinehart, The Washington Post
The Allied attack of Normandy beach and its resultant bloodbath have been immortalized in film and literature, but the U.S. campaign on the beaches of Western Italy reigns as perhaps the deadliest battle of World War II's western theater. In January 1944, about six months before D-Day, an Allied force of thirty-six thousand soldiers launched one of the first attacks on continental Europe at Anzio, a small coastal city thirty miles south of Rome. The assault was conceived as the first step toward an eventual siege of the Italian capital. But the advance stalled and Anzio beach became a death trap. After five months of brutal fighting and monumental casualties on both sides, the Allies finally cracked the German line and marched into Rome on June 5, the day before D-Day. Richly detailed and fueled by extensive archival research of newspapers, letters, and diaries--as well as scores of original interviews with surviving soldiers on both sides of the trenches--Anzio is a harrowing and incisive true story by one of today's finest military historians.

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802143261
• ISBN 13: 9780802143266
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416