Italy Volume I: The Sangro to Cassino

Contents

• • [covers]
  • Official History of New Zealand — in the Second World War — 1939–45
  • [frontispiece]
  • [title page]
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Maps and Diagrams
• • CHAPTER 1 — Italy and Her Invaders
    • I: The Strategic Prelude
    • II: The Land of Italy
  • CHAPTER 2 — Return to Battle
    • I: The Political Decision
    • II: Rebuilding the Division
    • III: Back in Europe
  • CHAPTER 3 — Approach to the Sangro
    • I: The State of the Campaign
    • II: The Division Moves Up
    • III: The First Contacts
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Crossing of the Sangro
    • I: Over The River and Up The Hill
    • II: Castelfrentano and Beyond
  • CHAPTER 5 — Orsogna: The First Battle
    • I: Probing for Resistance
    • II: Operation TORSO
  • CHAPTER 6 — Orsogna Unconquered
    • I: Operation FLORENCE
    • II: Operation ULYSSES
  • CHAPTER 7 — Ordeal by Stalemate
    • I: The Winter Line
    • II: The Lessons of Experience
  • CHAPTER 8 — Cassino: The Preliminaries
    • I: A New Task
    • II: On The Rapido
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Bombing of the Abbey
    • I: History and Policy
    • II: The Sequence of Events
    • III: Evidence and Argument
  • CHAPTER 10 — The February Attack
    • I: Plans and Dispositions
    • II: The Maoris' Action
  • CHAPTER 11 — An Unwelcome Interlude
    • I: The Origin of dickens
    • II: Waiting For The Weather
  • CHAPTER 12 — The March Attack: Break-in
    • I: 15 March
    • II: 16 March
  • CHAPTER 13 — The March Attack: Encounter
    • I: 17 March
    • II: 18 March
    • III: 19 March
  • CHAPTER 14 — The March Attack: Deadlock
    • I: 20 March
    • II: 21 March
    • III: 22 March
    • IV: 23–26 March
  • CHAPTER 15 — Cassino: A Retrospect
    • (i)
    • (ii)
    • (iii)
    • (iv)
    • (v)
    • (vi)
    • (vii)
• • Appendix I — Casualties in 2 New Zealand Division — 12 November 1943–10 April 1944
  • Appendix II — A Report on Tunnels at Cassino
  • Appendix III — Some Lessons from Operation DICKENS
    • [section]
    • (a) Air Bombing:
    • (b) Ground Troops' Exploitation of Air Bombing:
    • (c) Armour:
    • (d) Artillery:
    • (e) Engineers:
    • (f) The Defensive Use of Smoke:
    • (g) Emergency Air Supply:
  • Appendix IV — German Commanders in Italy
  • Appendix V — Operation dickens: 2 New Zealand Division and 6 Brigade — Operation Orders
  • Bibliography
    • [section]
    • I: UNPUBLISHED
    • II: PUBLISHED
  • Index
  • [backmatter]

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Title: Italy Volume I: The Sangro to Cassino

Author: Phillips, N. C.

Digitisation Funded By: Mary Weston

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1957, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

Keywords: New Zealand World War II History

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