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The bombing of Monte Cassino.
Document Type
Article
Source
History Today. Feb94, Vol. 44 Issue 2, p13. 8p. 1 Color Photograph, 10 Black and White Photographs.
Subject
*BATTLE of Cassino, Italy, 1944
*WORLD War II aerial operations
*BENEDICTINE monasteries
WORLD War II campaigns
Language
ISSN
0018-2753
Abstract
Comments on the bombing of a historic Benedictine abbey by Allied bombers in 1944 and ponders whether art and religion were inevitable casualties of war. The Monte Cassino, birthplace of the Benedictine Order; Description of the bombardment by war correspondent Christopher Buckley.