Battlefield: Monte Cassino
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Artist: BattlefieldDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Cromwell Productions
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DVD Review: The Italian peninsula, a strategic dead-end.
Summary: 4 Stars
I consider the Battlefield series to, generally, be a good documentary series on the battles and campaigns of WWII even though they are sometimes misnamed as in this case.
This DVD covers not only the battle for the heights above Cassino including the ancient abbey, but the Italian campaign as a whole. As such it does a fairly good job of telling the story of the campaign, the leaders of both sides, the weapons and forces available to both sides.
The DVD covers the initial landing by the British 8th army on the "heel" of the Italian peninsula and the US landings at Salerno. The DVD covers the battle for Monte Cassino, the amphibious landing at Anzio, the capture of Rome (as well as the opportiunites missed during that "race for Rome") as well as later fighting in the north of Italy. It shows the hard, slugging match northward in which the Germans made use of the geography of Italy to create a series of defensive lines that had to be frontally assaulted in actions reminiscent of the trenches of WWI. The video does a good job of showing how the Italian weather affected offensive operations.
The actions of commanders are analyzed and, as one would expect, Mark Clark comes off rather badly while "Smiling Albert" Kesselring is correctly shown as a commander who could consistently get the best effort with the much smaller resources he had to work with.
My only serious negative critique of this DVD is that it fails to look at the campaign from a larger strategic picture and ask why it was even fought at all? Italy's geography, with a mountainous "spine" running the length of the country and numerous, defensible rivers make Italy a perfect place for conducting defensive warfare. The fact of the matter is that the British did not want to face the Germans on the continent in any meaningful way, preferring to let the Soviets bear the brunt of european combat while deflecting the Americans to fights at the periphery such as North Africa, Sicily and Italy.
This is a good video on the Italian campaign and I recommend it with four stars.
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