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Storming Monte La Difensa
The First Special Service Force at the Winter Line, Italy 1943
von Bret Werner
Illustration: Peter Dennis, Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
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ISBN: 978-1-4728-0768-7
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Erschienen am 20.02.2015
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 80 Seiten

Preis: 16,49 €

Biografische Anmerkung
Klappentext

Bret Werner was raised in the Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania. He is deeply involved with living history organizations with an emphasis on the soldier of the 20th century. The author is also an associate member of the First Special Service Force Association, and he attends the veteran reunions every year.



In December 1943 Monte La Difensa was part of the formidable German defences overlooking the Allies' planned route to Rome via Monte Cassino. In the First Special Service Force's first combat in the Mediterranean theater, the Force would employ its special training in mountain and winter warfare to scale the peak, capture it, and then hold it against the inevitable German counterattacks. Astonishing their superiors, the First Special Service Force succeeded in the face of seemingly impossible odds, but suffered a 77 percent casualty rate. Their victory, founded on their aggressive doctrine and extensive training in a variety of combat techniques, would prove instrumental in the postwar development of special forces. Employing full-colour artwork, archive photographs, and first-hand accounts from participants, the author examines the origins, execution, and aftermath of the FSSF's spectacular success at Monte La Difensa amid the savage winter conditions of December 1943.


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