Anzio Anzio

Anzio

Italy and the Battle for Rome—1944

    • 4.8 • 16 Ratings
    • $11.99
    • $11.99

Publisher Description

A harrowing and incisive “high-quality battle history” from one of the world’s finest military historians (Booklist).
 
The Allied attack of Normandy beach and its resultant bloodbath have been immortalized in film and literature, but the US 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 “relentlessly fascinating story with plenty of asides about individuals’ experiences” (Publishers Weekly).
 
“Masterly . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully told story of wasted sacrifice.” —The Washington Post

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2007
December 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
416
Pages
PUBLISHER
Grove Atlantic
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
11.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Ukko Kotila ,

Anzio by Lloyd Clark

The author did an excellent job, well researched and well written, with a good balance of human interest.

While I give the author five stars, I give the publisher only two. I have never before read a book with so many obvious spelling errors - and I'm sure Clark, for example, spelled Hitler H-i-t-l-e-r,not Hider as it is frequently appears in the book. A fifth grader with a spell check program could have done better.

Happy in Newport Beach ,

Anzio

My father fought at Anzio.

This book tells me what he faced.

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