CONTENTS
Foreword v The Anzio Landing (22-29 January) 1 Plan for a New Offensive 3 The Assault 11 Expanding the Beachhead 18 The Allied Offensive (30 January-1 February) 27 Attack on Cisterna, 30 January 28 Attack on Cisterna, 31 January-1 February 33 Advance to Campoleone 36 The Enemy Attacks (3-12 February) 43 Battle of the Campoleone Salient 44 The Beachhead Defense 47 The Factory and Carroceto 53 Allied Counterattacks 62 The Major German Offensive (16-20 February) 67 Preparing for the Attack 67 The First Day, 16 February 70 The Second Day, 17 February 75 The Crisis, 18-19 February 80 The Battle is Won, 19-20 February 85 VI Corps Holds the Beachhead (20 February-3 March) 91 The Battle of the Caves 92 The 3d Division Repulses the Enemy 97 The Breakthrough 105 The Problem of Supply 107 Life at the Beachhead 112 Casualties 116 The Breakthrough, 23 May-4 June 116
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AFTER THE BATTLE. The central square of Cisterna, 26 May 1944.