Note: The abbey of Monte Cassino, which was destroyed by Allied ... By the end of 1943, the Allied advance northwards into Italy had forced the Germans back to the fourth and best fortified ...

Early on Monday, March 20, there had been a determined struggle for Hill 193, between Monastery Hill and Cassino. The Germans ...

Before the war in Italy rolled north to Monte Cassino, the chief ornament of the monastery’s Chapel of the Assumption was a handsome altarpiece of the Virgin. Then the ancient monastery ...

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 15 - War doesn't stop at the threshold of barbarism, President Sergio Mattarella said in Cassino ... abbey in the Allied advance against German resistance up the spine of Italy ...