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Monte Cassino : armoured forces in the battle for the Gustav Line : rare photographs from wartime archives
- Title
- Monte Cassino : armoured forces in the battle for the Gustav Line : rare photographs from wartime archives / Jeffrey Plowman.
- Author
- Plowman, Jeffrey, 1953-
- Publication
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2018.
- ©2018
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 19-1068 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- ix, 165 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The battles fought between the Allied armies and the German Whrmacht at Monte Cassino in 1944 were key episodes in the protracted Italian campaign, and the eventual Allied victory was a decisive step in the wider war to liberate Europe from German occupation. Much has been written about Cassino, but few books have chosen to tell the story through photographs - to give a visual insight into the fighting and the forces involved, the conditions in which they fought, and the landscape around the Monte Cassino abbey which became a battlefield. That is why Jeffrey Plowman's photographic history is of such value. Using almost 200 wartime images, many of which have not been published before, he gives a graphic impression of the realities of the fighting as it was experienced by the troops on the ground. He focuses on the tanks - the array of armoured vehicles deployed by both sides which played a critical role. This aspect of Cassino has rarely been covered in such detail and in such a vivid way. The book will be of special interest to modellers and historians of armoured warfare, but it will also appeal to readers who have a more general interest in the Italian campaign"--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Images of war
- Uniform Title
- Images of war.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 165).
- Call Number
- JFF 19-1068
- ISBN
- 1526718936
- 9781526718938
- OCLC
- 1041519736
- Author
- Plowman, Jeffrey, 1953- author.
- Title
- Monte Cassino : armoured forces in the battle for the Gustav Line : rare photographs from wartime archives / Jeffrey Plowman.
- Publisher
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- still imagetext
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Images of warImages of war.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 165).
- Chronological Term
- 1944
- Research Call Number
- JFF 19-1068