Cassino to the Alps (United States Army in World War II: The Mediterranean Theater of Operations Volume 4)

xxiv, 584 pp. Includes 27 maps, 92 illustrations, appendix, bibliographical note, glossary, and index. "This volume continues the story of the Italian campaign with the Allied spring offensive in May 1944 which carried two Allied armies - the U.S. Fifth and the British Eighth - to Rome by 4 June and to the final German capitulation in May 1945." (United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide, pp. 65-66). Includes discussion of grand strategy from both Allied and German points of view, corps operations in mountain terrains, beachhead strategy, two-army fronts, armor in rugged terrain, river crossings, surrender negotiations, artillery support, etc.