THE BATTLE OF CASSINO (309 pp.)Fred Majdalany Houghfon Mlfflin ($4).
The action started out as another ridge-and-river crossing by the victorious Fifth Army as it drove up the length of Italy. An optimistic intelligence summary said that German power was "ebbing." The attack was to be timed with the Anzio landing, 60 miles behind the German front at Cassino, trapping the Germans between two fires. Instead, it was the Allies who were trapped. This book ably retells the story of the trap and of what it took to pry it open againin one of the great battles of World War II.
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