Monte Cassino: the hardest-fought battle of World War II

The monastery and the Gustav line

I: Sicily to Cassino

1. The Casablanca conference and the invasion of Sicily

2. The invasion of Italy

3. The Gustav line

4. Into the Gustav line

II: The first battle

5. British X corps on the Garigliano: the left hook

6. Bloody River

7. Anzio and Cassino

8. The Cassino Massif

III: The second battle

9. The destruction of the monastery

10. Snakeshead ridge

11. Lull at Cassino, counterattack at Anzio

IV: The third battle

12. The battle for Cassino Town

13. Castle hill

14. The green devils of Cassino

V: The fourth battle

15. Deception

16. Break-in

17. Amazon bridge

18. The monastery

Surviving the peace

Typical British infantry Battalion, 1943-44

Orders of battle.