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Orgill, Douglas The Gothic Line. the Italian Campaign, Autumn, 1944.
New York W. W. Norton & Company 1967 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Xiv, 257, 8 plates, maps, map endpapers, cloth, DJ, very good. From the dust jacket: "The Allied offensive in Italy in the autumn of 1944 plunged the British Eighth Army and the United States Fifth Army into some of the fiercest fighting of the war. Against them were ranged two great German armies, the Tenth and the Fourteenth, which put up a struggle unsurpassed in German military history. The scene of the fighting was the Gothic Line, a chain of defenses that stretched across Italy, through the mountains of the Northern Apennines, from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic. Along this line were names on the map that men who fought in Italy will never forget the ridge of Gemmano, scattered with the dead of two British divisions; Croce and San Savino; the towering escarpment of Livergnano, where Mark Clark's American infantry clung and crawled and died in the rain and mist. Why did the campaign fail? Douglas Orgill, who commanded a troop of Sherman tanks in Italy, finds several reasons. Most obvious was the division in Allied strategic thinking, caused by American distrust of Britain. Through the pages of this book move the men who had to try to solve these problems: Churchill arguing with Roosevelt; the tall, reassuring figure of Leese; Mark Clark, restless, able, ambitious; the charming Alexander, a natural leader in the British mold; Kesselring, smiling, anxious, indomitable; and Hitler, still physically shaken by the July bomb plot, swinging from reasoned strategic judgment to fits of despondency and rage. Douglas Orgill has written a lucid and gripping account that brings out the full drama of the struggle. " EDG_331 ; 257 pages
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