PIĄTKOWSKI Henryk - Battle for Monte Cassino Rome 1945 [for official use].

The Battle for Monte Cassino Colonel Piatkowski Henryk

"The work I have undertaken is to present a description of the battle of the 2nd Polish Corps, as synthetically and factually as possible, and at the same time accessible to every reader (...) The work is written just after the Battle of Monte Cassino, and finished just before the new Polish operations on the Italian front" (from the introduction).

The book contains extremely accurate maps showing the location of the units of the 2nd Polish Corps before the Battle of Monte Cassino and the course of the first and second assaults.Five maps, called sketches in the book, were made by the Geographical Company of the 2nd Corps. The book also includes 8 perspective sketches made by this Company. The maps are accurate enough to include not only the familiar names associated with the battle (Doctor's House, Phantom, Vineyard), but also the deployment and attack directions of various military units. (via https://montecassino.info.pl/nieznana-bitwa-o-monte-cassino/)

Year of publication: Rome 1945, White Eagle Library. For official use only. Pressed at the Field Printing House

s. 120, 14 fold-out sketches, plans and views

Format: 17 x 12 cm

Binding: publisher's booklet

Condition: complete and consistent, no underlining or signatures, minor soiling and rust discoloration [foxing - no harm to the readability of the text and sketches], sketches with creases and minor edge tears, minor tear of the last sketch, cover heavily soiled, with creases and corner losses, back cover missing, on the back of the last map a note with addresses *.

*firstaddress "Port Civitanova Via Vetreria no? Provincia Macerata Italia" is the address of a town in the province of Macerata that was liberated by Polish soldiers in 1944, the second "Merridn Camp Castlemartin Pembroke South Wales England" probably refers to a British army training camp located there.