A few minutes before 11 in the morning, Waclaw Fieglar walked slowly into the heart of the ancient Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino, pushing a walker to steady himself. His smart blue blazer was ...

After months of bloodshed, the Allies launched a massive offensive Operation Diadem to finally shatter the Gustav Line.

As a 19-year-old private in the Black Watch, John Clarke looked down on the bombing of Monte Cassino from above. He was on Mount Ornita, "up to my neck in snow", when the massed ranks of Flying ...

In the winter of 1944, the Allied powers had already landed in Southern Italy and were pushing north. It became obvious the Axis were losing the war, it was only a matter of time. They wouldn’t go ...

HARROWING images capture the bloody violence of the Allied assault on Monte Cassino — as a new book sheds fresh light on atrocities committed by French forces after the famous battle. The monumental ...

Monte Cassino's sixth century monastery was wrested from its stubborn German defenders in May 1944 after five months of savage fighting, but two weeks later the bloody victory was eclipsed by the ...

This excellent account of one of the bloodiest and most violent battles in human history presents the general reader, if not the military historian or the specialist in World War II, with a genuine ...

The Cassino War Cemetery is situated close by the base of the height of Monte Cassino just a mile south of... Sgt Laing, Wilbraham, Remnant and myself did a lot of work during the next two hours ...

Veterans have marked the 60th anniversary of one of World War II's bloodiest battles - at Monte Cassino. The Duke of Kent joined 300 British veterans to mark the end of the battle, which claimed ...

At the centre of the line, blocking the route to Rome, was the town of Cassino, dominated by the mountain of Monte Cassino with its 1,400 year old Benedictine abbey. The abbey had been evacuated by ...

TULSA, Okla. — Sixth graders at Monte Cassino raised over $10,000 so they could shop for nearly 60 angels from the Salvation Army Angel Tree. "Today is our annual Salvation Army Angel Tree Christmas ...

Local abbey, which owns the land, is planning to establish a brewery and B&B on the land where thousands of British and Allied soldiers lost their lives Protesters say the attraction, which includes ...