"The Battle for Monte Cassino"- Then and Now.

After The Battle has finally released their new book THE BATTLES FOR MONTE CASSINO.

 

It may be a good addition to my bookcase, looking forward to the then and nows photos.

Thanks for nthe heads up

 

About £45 but I'm sure given their normal MO it will be value for money.....

 

There's a whole After The Battle Thread here:

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/postwar/16068-those-nice-folks-%22after-battle%22-5.html

I'd agree they are very good books and worth every penny, not that I have many

Duty rumour is, there is one on the African Campaign coming out next year around March.

 

Amazon
Are doing a pre order price of £33 if anyone is interested

 

I didn't think it was out until May?

 

Even better, in time for my birthday!

 

I can't order it now then-I don't know what my new address will be yet

 

send it to mine, I'll look after it for you until you do.


Errmmm......

We don't have a postcode yet

 

So Paul, will you do a review? I can't blow my own trumpet.

Perry

 

I will indeed do a review, eagerly reading it at present!

 

Scout sniper -
what can possibly be written as new for those four battles as we have had Ellis - Majdelany- Parker et al with excellent accounts already - we need more...67 years after those battles ?
Cheers

 

Tom, this a very different sort of book to the ones you mention. It visualises the whole story with 100s of Then & Now photos, and having skimmed it once so far, it is a very fine tribute to your comrades who fought and died at Cassino. Highly recommended to all.

 

Paul & owen -
Take your points of the then and now periods but it has to be chalk and cheese but then -we are talking a ploughed up evil smelling very noisy graveyard to a lush Kew Gardens - but if you have that sort of spare cash - go right ahead - BUT can you hear the nightingales when it's quiet ..?

Cheers

 

Tom, I should also point out that it isn't just Cassino that we cover. The book ranges in time from January through to May, and geographically from the coast to Le Mainarde, the mountains in front of Cassino, and from the Gari/Garigliano to the Melfa.

As for whether you need another book on Cassino, every good book, including ours, brings something fresh to the story. There is some 'new' history in it, but as Paul and Owen say, the point of difference is in the photographic coverage.

 

Ropey -
As I have pointed out in another thread - I do know all of that area and am aware of the differences of the time I was there and to-day's lush area - and all the way to the Melfa and beyond where the Westminster Regt of the Canadian 5th Armoured Division held a bridgehead over that river and a Major Mahoney won his V.C. This was the 5th Cdn's first major battle in that campaign...and I wish you well with your book
Cheers

 

Ropey -
As I have pointed out in another thread - I do know all of that area and am aware of the differences of the time I was there and to-day's lush area - and all the way to the Melfa and beyond where the Westminster Regt of the Canadian 5th Armoured Division held a bridgehead over that river and a Major Mahoney won his V.C. This was the 5th Cdn's first major battle in that campaign...and I wish you well with your book
Cheers

That's perhaps the biggest difference over time of course Tom - the amount of vegetation that's grown up. It certainly made accessing some of the viewpoints rather difficult. I was surprised, however, at how little some of the buildings had changed (outside of the main towns), and how many of the Hitler Line defences were still remaining.