Battle for Monte Cassino (World War II) (Documentary) [DVDRip] torrent

TV : Documentary : DVD quality : English

XVID, 544x400, Qf=0.25, 128 kbs (stereo), 50 mins

Title Battle for Cassino / narrated by Bernard Archard
Author Bernard Archard ;
Series Archive of war;
Description 1 vidodisc (DVD) (50 min)
Contributors
Director Peter Batty
Producer Peter Batty
scriptwriter Peter Batty

]t was the most gruelling, the most harrowing, and in many ways the most tragic of all the battles fought in Europe during the Second World War. It was also the most international - soldiers of 16 countries fought and died there. It had become, too, a battle to be mulled over, puzzled out, and re-fought, not just by professional soldiers and military historians, but also by armchair strategists, for it is full of controversy: not least the bombing by the Allies of the historic Benedictine monastery on the summit of Monte Cassino.

But to the men who took part, the battle will chiefly be remembered for the mud and the cold, and above all for the hypnotic attraction of the great monastery itself - an all seeing eye, glowering down from the sheer hill and noticing everyone and everything.

Unique archive material of the battle from both sides has been utilised together with newly-filmed sequences of the rebuilt town and monastery, as well as dramatic eye-witness accounts from many of the surviving major participants./img]
It was the most gruelling, the most harrowing, and in many ways the most tragic of all the battles fought in Europe during the Second World War. It was also the most international - soldiers of 16 countries fought and died there. It had become, too, a battle to be mulled over, puzzled out, and re-fought, not just by professional soldiers and military historians, but also by armchair strategists, for it is full of controversy: not least the bombing by the Allies of the historic Benedictine monastery on the summit of Monte Cassino.

But to the men who took part, the battle will chiefly be remembered for the mud and the cold, and above all for the hypnotic attraction of the great monastery itself - an all seeing eye, glowering down from the sheer hill and noticing everyone and everything.

Unique archive material of the battle from both sides has been utilised together with newly-filmed sequences of the rebuilt town and monastery, as well as dramatic eye-witness accounts from many of the surviving major participants.