ROME FELL TODAY by Adleman, Robert H. And George Walton - 1969

GB: Frewin, 1969. Red cloth, gilt. Book is in fine condition BUT top text edge is noticeably spotted / marked. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is price clipped and in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.. Hardback. VG+/VG Pc DW.

London: Leslie Frewin. Very Good/Very Good. 1969. Hard Cover. 8vo 0090983505 Dust jacket in clear protective sleeve, unclipped, minor loss to edges. Red cloth withbright gilt titling. No ownership inscription. illustrated with b/w photographs. Bibliography, index. xii,336 pages. George Walton The battle for Italy was probably the most controversial campaign of the Second World War. To this day, soldiers, historians, reporters and political leaders angrily debate whether the choice of that miserable arena was a bloody waste of men and material or was the sound result of a series of inevitable problems and decisions. The leaders of both sides have not escaped the puzzled stares of contemporary and succeeding generations. Was President Roosevelt a too-willing tool in what some have agreed was a Stalinist plot to expend Anglo-American resources? Was Field Marshal Albert Kesselring a military genius or an interfering optimist? Was Winston Churchill wrong in his assessment of the… Read More

(Subject: World War II - Italy) An account of the Italian Campaign, from Salerno to the liberation of Rome on June 4th , 1944. By Winter, 1943 the whole of southern Italy was in Allied hands, and the Allied armies stood facing the Volturno Line, the first of a series of prepared defensive lines running across Italy. It took until mid-January 1944 to fight through the Volturno, Barbara and Bernhardt lines to reach the Gustav Line, the backbone of the Winter Line defenses, setting the scene for the four battles of Monte Cassino which took place between January and May 1944. (Published: 1969) (Publisher: Leslie Frewin) (ISBN: 0090983505) (Pagination: 336pp, 16 photos, notes, bibliography, index) (Condition: vg in rubbed and edge-worn dw. ) UL-XXXXXX