Battle Of Monte Cassino: The Five Month Insanity Of Breaking The Gustav Line

Battle Of Monte Cassino: The Five Month Insanity Of Breaking The Gustav Line

The Battle of Monte Cassino was a major World War II conflict between British and German forces in Italy, marked by intense and prolonged combat over five months, considered to be an ‘act of insanity’. After a series of Allied victories, the Germans were finally on the defensive, allowing Allied forces to attempt to break the formidable Gustav line, heavily defended by elite German paratroopers. Credit to : The World History Channel