Anzio Beachhead: 22 January - 25 May 1944

by John Bowditch III and III Bowditch

"Anzio Beachhead," fourteenth in the series of studies of particular combat operations, is the story of how VI Corps of the American Fifth Army seized and held a strategic position far to the rear of the main fighting front, in the Italian campaign of 1944. Since VI Corps included British as well as American units, and the high command in Italy was in British rather than in American hands, the battle to maintain the Anzio beachhead was an Allied rather...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517737273
• ISBN13: 9781517737276
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"