Anzio: Italy and the Battle for Rome-1944

A harrowing and incisive "high-quality battle history" from one of the world's finest military historians (Booklist).

The Allied attack of Normandy beach and its resultant bloodbath have been immortalized in film and literature, but the US campaign on the beaches of Western Italy reigns as perhaps the deadliest battle of World War II's western theater. In January 1944, about six months before D-Day, an Allied force of thirty-six thousand soldiers launched one of the first attacks on con...