Fatal Decision Anzio and the Battle for Rome

Name: Fatal Decision Anzio and the Battle for Rome
Price: 57.56 USD
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ISBN: 9780002159265

ISBN-10: 0002159260

ISBN-13: 9780002159265

Edition: 1991

Authors: Carlo D'Este

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Fatal Decision is a powerful, dramatic, moving, and ultimately definitive narrative of one of the most desperate campaigns of World War II. In the winter of 1943-44, Anzio, a small Mediterranean resort and port some thirty-five miles south of Rome, played a crucial role in the fortunes of World War II as the target of an amphibious Allied landing. The Allies planned to bypass the strong German defenses along the Gustav Line and at Monte Cassino sixty miles to the southeast, which were holding up the American and British armies and preventing the liberation of Rome. By taking advantage of Allied command of the sea and air to effect complete surprise, infantry and armored forces landing at…

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List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 504
Weight: 2.2

Carlo D'Este is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and a distinguished military historian. He lives in New Seabury, Massachusetts.