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Condition: Very Good. 1994. No Edition Remarks. 100 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial paper covers. Black and white photographic plates. Flatsigned by author to title page. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Subtle tanning to text block edges and reverse of covers. Binding remains firm throughout. Paper covers have light edge-wear and corner curling with mild scuffing overall. Spine has minor rolling and creasing.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. 100 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. SOFTCOVER 1994. 1st edition. 112 pages. Flat covers. Flat spine. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner, securely boxed in cardboard. ref M30. Nowhere to Hide. A Story of Cassino by Tom Aitken. F. Lamberti Editori, Italy.…

Trade paperback. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Format is approximately 6.5 inches by 9.5 inches. 100, [12 pages of illustrations]. Freelance writer. Also was Film Critic of The Tablet 1995- 2002 served on film festival juries in Berlin, Venice and Setubal, Portugal. Since 1999 regular lecturer at St. Deiniol's Library (The Gladstone Memorial Library), on Film and Theology, and at the annual Gladstone Colloquium; elected a Fellow of St. Deiniol's Library in 2008. 2003-05 and since has lectured at the Graham Greene Festival - which in 2005 published his Ways of Affirmation and Ways of Escape: Graham Greene in Mexico and the Congo as an occasional paper. His published books include: Blood and Fire, Tsar and Commissar: The Salvation Army in Russia 1907-1923 (Paternoster, Milton Keynes, 2007) and Nowhere to Hide: A Story of Cassino, La,berti, Cassino, 1994. The Battle of Monte Cassino (also known as the Battle for Cassino) was a costly series of four assaults by the Allies against the Winter Line in Italy held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of World War II. At the beginning of 1944, the western half of the Winter Line was being anchored by Germans holding the Rapido-Gari, Liri and Garigliano valleys and some of the surrounding peaks and ridges. Together, these features formed the Gustav Line. Monte Cassino, a historic hilltop abbey founded in AD 529 by Benedict of Nursia, dominated the nearby town of Cassino and the entrances to the Liri and Rapido valleys. Repeated pinpoint artillery attacks on Allied assault troops caused their leaders to conclude the abbey was being used by the Germans as an observation post. On 15 February American bombers dropped 1,400 tons of high explosives, creating widespread damage. German paratroopers then occupied the rubble and established excellent defensive positions amid the ruins.…