London, Aug 5 (ANI): The battle for Monte Cassino - one of the most bitterly fought land campaigns during World War II - is being made into a film to coincide with the battle's 70th anniversary. The ...

The main observances of the battle's anniversary were held at the Polish War Cemetery at the Monte Cassino hill. Among those taking part in the commemorations was the daughter of General Anders, ...

ROME – Prince Harry paid solemn tributes to fallen Allied troops during World War II and made a surprise trip to the Colosseum as his two-day visit to Italy ended Monday. Wearing full military dress, ...

Wojtek joined the Polish 2nd corps, also known as the Anders Army (see: NOTE 1) in 1942 in Iran and remained with the unit on its combat trail to Italy, where it fought among others at Monte Cassino ...

Julian Kurpiel of King of Prussia,, who served with General Anders Polish Second Army Corps during World War II, recalls the Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy, from May 11 to 18, 1944. This epic struggle ...

Charles called for reflection on the courage of the men and women whose actions in central Italy enabled the landings in Normandy a few weeks later. The human and material cost of the battle was high.

At the centre of the line, blocking the route to Rome, was the town of Cassino, dominated by the mountain of Monte Cassino with its 1,400 year old Benedictine abbey. The abbey had been evacuated by ...

THEY were branded D-Day dodgers and accused of languishing in sunny Italy while others fought their way out of northern France during the second world war. But the grim reality of Monte Cassino was ...

Richard Holmes asks whether the epic Battle of Cassino would have taken place, if Allied leadership had understood the real problems involved in fighting in such appalling terrain. I have never had ...

Poland's President Andrzej Duda and his Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella on Saturday commemorated the 80th anniversary of the 1944 Battle of Monte Cassino. Poland's president Andzrej Duda ...