A few minutes before 11 in the morning, Waclaw Fieglar walked slowly into the heart of the ancient Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino, pushing a walker to steady himself. His smart blue blazer was ...

Monte Cassino stood at the heart of Germany’s Gustav Line in Italy, blocking the Allied advance toward Rome. After months of ...

At the centre of the line, blocking the route to Rome, was the town of Cassino, dominated by the mountain of Monte Cassino with its 1,400 year old Benedictine abbey. The abbey had been evacuated by ...

As a 19-year-old private in the Black Watch, John Clarke looked down on the bombing of Monte Cassino from above. He was on Mount Ornita, "up to my neck in snow", when the massed ranks of Flying ...

This excellent account of one of the bloodiest and most violent battles in human history presents the general reader, if not the military historian or the specialist in World War II, with a genuine ...

The meaning of the Cassino Monastery Incident was 80 miles north in Rome. Must the Allies bomb St. Peter’s into rubble and then fight their way, chapel by chapel, through the Vatican? In the valley ...

In the aftermath of the destruction, the Allies faced a grim reality: the Germans had never occupied Monte Cassino before the bombing. Propaganda, regret, and three more months of bloody fighting ...

Monte Cassino's sixth century monastery was wrested from its stubborn German defenders in May 1944 after five months of savage fighting, but two weeks later the bloody victory was eclipsed by the ...

HARROWING images capture the bloody violence of the Allied assault on Monte Cassino — as a new book sheds fresh light on atrocities committed by French forces after the famous battle. The monumental ...

Poland's President Andrzej Duda and his Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella on Saturday commemorated the 80th anniversary of the 1944 Battle of Monte Cassino. Poland's president Andzrej Duda ...

The Cassino War Cemetery is situated close by the base of the height of Monte Cassino just a mile south of... Sgt Laing, Wilbraham, Remnant and myself did a lot of work during the next two hours ...

Veterans have marked the 60th anniversary of one of World War II's bloodiest battles - at Monte Cassino. The Duke of Kent joined 300 British veterans to mark the end of the battle, which claimed ...