The Battle of Monte Cassino: The History of the Battle for Rome during World War II by Charles River Editors
Requirements: .MP3 reader, 39.4 MB
Overview: Germany’s North African defeat opened up the possibility of taking the war in the west to the European continent for the first time since France’s lightning conquest by the Wehrmacht in 1940. The British and Americans debated the merits of landing in France directly in 1943, but they ultimately opted against it. The Soviets railed at the Westerners as “bastards of allies” – conveniently forgetting that they aided and abetted Hitler’s violent expansionism in eastern Europe for over a year starting in 1939 – but a 1943 “D-Day” style landing in France might have proven a strategic and logistical impossibility anyway.
Thus, in 1943, the theater of Allied operations shifted from North Africa to Europe – Operation Husky, a mixed victory wresting control of Sicily from the Axis. The action also caused Benito Mussolini’s downfall, his imprisonment, and subsequent dramatic rescue by the scar-faced Otto Skorzeny – removing significant portions of Italy from the fascist camp, but nevertheless failing to prevent a long Italian campaign.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction History, Military, World War II
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