Silence On Monte Sole

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Ibooks Inc
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: Reprint

Description: 374 pages. Book is in general fair to good condition. There is some reading wear present, but still a presentable reference copy.

Publishers Description: Monte Sole -- Mountain of the Sun -- had the bad luck to lie on the main route of withdrawal of the retreating German armies in the fall of 1944. As the Allied advance stormed up Italy to the very shadow of Monte Sole, Axis frustration over their retreat and the harassing Italian partisans reached its peak. With full authorization of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, and with an infusion of dread SS reinforcements, the Germans determined to neutralize Monte Sole. The result was, in Kesselrings chilling words, "a war operation." In brilliant, page-turning prose, Olsen re-creates the unspeakable three-day butchery of innocent Italian civilians that ranked among the blackest atrocities in the history of mans inhumanity to man.

ISBN: 9780743434850