ANZIO -The landing on a thin strip of beach behind the German lines was Winston Churchill's pet project;
he called it the "Cat Claw Stroke." One of the generals who opposed him said, "There will be no survivors."
ANZIO -Allied troops hit the beachhead with what was at first total victory-only to find themselves, för unexplained reasons, pinned in a death trap...
A picked unit of 767 Darby's Rangers went out on a mission-only six came back...
For 120 days and nights, German guns blasted the embattled beach- head...
Sometimes 150 Luftwaffe planes strafed the tight-packed Allied lines at once...
ANZIO -Here is the book-by a man who was there through the whole nightmare-that puts the blame and the glory where it belongs.
Here is the untold story of the battle where everything failed but courage.