The battle may well be remembered longer for the Allied destruction of the historic monastery (founded A.D. 529) that crowned Monte Cassino than for the men who fought and died there. Author ...

Day, the Allied powers focused on Italy, and the battle to take Rome. Since the previous summer, Mussolini had been a puppet ...

Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino (est. 529) experienced a cycle of atrocities which forever transformed its identity. This book examines how such a ...

who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks of his own abbey at Monte Cassino in Italy about 540AD. According to the Rule they were to take a vow of obedience, lead a simple and ...

In the fertile valley of the Rapido, below Monte Cassino, the seed buried in the spring had germinated and borne fruit. Columns of two-wheeled donkey carts, piled high with long sheaves of grain ...

Walter Miller, Jr., took part in the American bombing of Monte Cassino Abbey, the birthplace of European monasticism fifteen centuries ago. After the war, Miller studied Latin and medieval history ...

EIGHTY years ago my dad, Stefan Danielczuk, was in Italy as part of the contingent fighting the Nazis who were entrenched in the Abbey on Monte Cassino trying to stop the advance on Rome.

The Allied assaults against the so-called “Winter Line", of German and Italian fortifications saw the destruction of the 14th century Monte Cassino Monastery; one of Italy’s holiest sites.

Raymond Kleboe Collection/Getty Images The Abbey of Monte Cassino in ruins after Allied bombing Matt still has razor-sharp memories of the battles he fought, and the comrades he lost. He fled ...

The ruined town and abbey of Monte Cassino in May 1944 Reuters Alexander’s problem was Gen Bernard Freyburg, almost impossibly brave (he won the Victoria Cross in the Great War, and had three ...