LEADER 03780nam 2200529 450 001 9910163195203321 005 20200108121136.0 010 $a1-78289-462-4 035 $a(CKB)3810000000097804 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4809017 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4809017 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11349891 035 $a(OCoLC)974590637 035 $a(OCoLC)784652588$z(OCoLC)56603181$z(OCoLC)760353079 035 $a(OCoLC)993810000000097804 035 $a(BIP)059099277 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000097804 100 $a20200108e20131990 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAnzio Beachhead (22 January-25 May 1944) 205 $aCommemorative Edition. 210 1$a[Place of publication not identified] :$cPickle Partners Publishing,$d2013. 210 4$d1990 215 $a1 online resource (170 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aAmerican forces in action series 300 $a"World War II, 50th anniversary, commemorative edition." 300 $aG.P.O. sales statement incorrect in publication. 300 $aReprint. Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Historical Division, War Dept., 1948. (American forces in action series). 300 $a"PIN: 039687-000." 330 8 $aIncludes with 25 maps and 36 Illustrations.The story of Anzio must be read against the background of the preceding phase of the Italian campaign. The winter months of 1943-44 found the Allied forces in Italy slowly battering their way through the rugged mountain barriers blocking the roads to Rome. After the Allied landings in southern Italy, German forces had fought a delaying action while preparing defensive lines to their rear. The main defensive barrier guarding the approaches to Rome was the Gustav Line, extending across the Italian peninsula from Minturno to Ortona. Enemy engineers had reinforced the natural mountain defenses with an elaborate network of pillboxes, bunkers, and mine fields. The Germans had also reorganized their forces to resist the Allied advance. On 21 Nov. 1943, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring took over the command of the entire Italian theater; Army Group C, under his command, was divided into two armies, the Tenth facing the southern front and also holding the Rome area, and the Fourteenth guarding central and northern Italy. In a year otherwise filled with defeat, Hitler was determined to gain the prestige of holding the Allies south of Rome.In the early morning hours of 22 Jan. 1944, VI Corps of Lt. Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth Army landed on the Italian coast below Rome and established a beachhead far behind the enemy lines. In the four months between this landing and Fifth Army's May offensive, the short stretch of coast known as the Anzio beachhead was the scene of one of the most courageous and bloody dramas of the war. The Germans threw attack after attack against the beachhead in an effort to drive the landing force into the sea. Fifth Army troops, put fully on the defensive for the first time, rose to the test. Hemmed in by numerically superior enemy forces, they held their beachhead, fought off every enemy attack, and then built up a powerful striking force which spearheaded Fifth Army's triumphant entry into Rome in June. 410 0$aAmerican forces in action series. 606 $aAnzio, Battle of, Anzio, Italy, 1944 615 0$aAnzio, Battle of, Anzio, Italy, 1944. 676 $a940.5421 700 $aAnon$0815482 712 02$aCenter of Military History, 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163195203321 996 $aAnzio Beachhead (22 January-25 May 1944)$93583809 997 $aUNINA