Salerno to Cassino (United States Army in World War II: The Mediterranean Theater of Operations Volume 3)

xvii, 491 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Includes 16 maps, 94 illustrations, 2 appendices, bibliographical note, glossary, and index. Maps in pocket and several fold-outs follow text. Part of a series released by the U.S. Army studying the Mediterranean theater of operations during World War II. "Although the author focuses on the tactical activities of the Allies with special emphasis on the U.S. Fifth Army, he also provides the strategic framework within which those activities took place." Includes discussion of amphibious assaults, river crossings, assaulting fortified towns, mountain warfare, small-unit tactics, use of air power, German command problems and defensive tactics, use of airborne troops, etc. (United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide, pp. 64-65).