Cassino '44: Five Months of Hell in Italy by James Holland games Many of them were misfits

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Cassino '44: Five Months of Hell in Italy by James Holland games Many of them were misfitsThere are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with the Italian surrender, the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943. And yet it didn't happen. Hitler ordered his forces to dig in and fight for every yard, thus setting the stage for one of the grimmest and most attritional campaigns of the Second World War. By the start of 1944, the