Storming Monte La Difensa: The First Special Service Force at the Winter Line, Italy 1943 by Werner, Bret

Storming Monte La Difensa: The First Special Service Force at the Winter Line, Italy 1943

Featuring full-color artwork, archive photographs, and first-hand accounts from participants, Storming Monte la Difensa examines the origins,...
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Author: Bret Werner
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Storming Monte La Difensa: The First Special Service Force at the Winter Line, Italy 1943 by Werner, Bret

Storming Monte La Difensa: The First Special Service Force at the Winter Line, Italy 1943

€38,00

Storming Monte La Difensa: The First Special Service Force at the Winter Line, Italy 1943

€38,00
Author: Bret Werner
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Featuring full-color artwork, archive photographs, and first-hand accounts from participants, Storming Monte la Difensa examines the origins, execution, and aftermath of the FSSF's spectacular success at Monte La Difensa amid the savage winter conditions of December 1943.

In December 1943 Monte La Difensa was part of the formidable German defenses overlooking the Allies' route to Rome via Monte Cassino. In the First Special Service Force's first combat in the Mediterranean theater, the Force would employ its special training in mountain and winter warfare to scale the peak, capture it, and then hold it against the inevitable German counterattacks. Astonishing their superiors, the First Special Service Force had succeeded in the face of seemingly impossible odds, but suffered a 77 percent casualty rate. Their victory, founded on their aggressive doctrine and extensive training in a variety of combat techniques, would prove instrumental in the postwar development of special forces.

Author: Bret Werner
Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
Published: 02/17/2015
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 9.60h x 7.20w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781472807663

About the Author
Bret Werner was raised in the Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania. He is deeply involved with living history organizations with an emphasis on the soldier of the 20th century. The author is also an associate member of the First Special Service Force Association, and he attends the veteran reunions every year. The author lives in Media, PA.


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