Reading List for generalist books on the Italian Campaign
Monte Cassino. The Hardest Fought Battle of World War II. M Parker
Monte Cassino. A German View. R Bohmler
The Battles of Monte Cassino – Then & Now. J Plowman & P Rowe
The Battles of Monte Cassino. The Campaign and its Controversies. G Harper & J Tonkin-Covell
Cassino. Portrait of a Battle. F Majdalany
The Battle of Monte Cassino. F Majdalany
Even the Brave Falter. ED Smith
The Day of Battle. R Atkinson
Alexander’s Generals. G Blaxland
The Italian Campaign 1943-45. GA Shepperd
Mediterranean Safari. March 1943 to October 1944. AP de T Daniell
Indian Armed Forces in World War II. Campaign in Italy. Dharm Pal
The Battle for Italy. WGF Jackson
Rough Road to Rome. A Foot-Soldier in Sicily and Italy, 1943-44. D Cole
Return to Cassino. HL Bond
The Battle for Italy. WGF Jackson
Neither fear nor hope. F von Sender und Etterlin
Combat Commander: Autobiography of a Soldier. E Harmon
They fought at Anzio. JSD Eisenhower
Wartime Wanderers – a football team at war. T Purcell and M Gething
Allied Military Administration in Italy 1943-45. CRS Harris
Through the Hitler Line. Memoirs of an Infantry Chaplain. LF Wilmot
The Commandos in Action at Salerno. TBL Churchill. Army Quarterly, Vol LI Number 2 Jan 1946
Freyberg: Churchill’s Salamander. L Barber and J Tonkin-Covell
Agony at Anzio. The Allies’ Most Controversial and Bizarre Operation of World War II. WB Bruer
The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby. A Bowlby
No need to worry – memoirs of an army conscript 1941-46. P Moore
Rome fell today. R Alderman & G Walton
Slightly out of focus. R Capa
A guide to the battlefields of Europe Volume 2. D Chandler
Death in Rome. R Katz
The Rome Escape Line. S Derry
The Liberator. A Kershaw
Blood and Champagne The Life and Times of Robert Capa. A Kershaw
General Mud. ELM Burns
Mailed Fist – The 6th Armoured Division at War 1940-1945. K Ford
Invasion Diary. R Tregaskis
Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. Volume II, The Canadians in Italy 1943-1945
Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War. Italy. Volume 1. NC Phillips
Engineers in the Italian Campaign 1943-1945. DC Bailey
Brave Men. E Pyle
Commissioned Barges. The Story of the Landing Craft. T Blore
Calculated Risk. MW Clark
Approach to Battle. F Tuker
Anzio. L Clark
Major DM (John) Kennedy MC: A Tribute. R Jocelyn
Circles of Hell. E Morris
Something about a Soldier. C Burteel
Anzio Beachhead. Diary of a Signaller. T Roe
The War in Italy 1939-1945. R Lamb
German Defences in Italy in World War II. N Short
Whicker’s War. A Whicker
Tug of War. The Battle for Italy 1943-45. D Graham & S Bidwell
Eighth Army. From the Western Desert to the Alps, 1939-1945. R Neillands
War on the Ground 1939-1945. CJ Bruce
Battle for Monte Cassino. G Forty
Hand of Steel. R Butler
Oliver Leese. R Ryder
Mark Clark. M Blumenson
Crossing the Rapido. A tragedy of World War II. D Schultz
War Diaries 1939-1945. Alanbrook
Settling the Bill. W Dugdale
Armoured Warfare in the Italian Campaign 1934-1945. A Tucker-Jones
Loopy. An autobiography. G Kennard
The War North of Rome. June 1944-May 1945. TR Broins
The Bombing War. Richard Overy
The Path to Victory. The Mediterranean Theater in World War II. D Porch
They came to a monastery. The Final Battle. R Flemington
Hitler’s Mediterranean Gamble. D Porch
Sideshow War. The Italian Campaign 1943-1945. GF Botjer
War in Italy. Lord Carver
Hitler’s Italian Allies. MacG Knox
‘My God’ Soldiers. From Alamein to Vienna. P Howarth
US Army in World War II. Mediterranean Theater of Operations. Salerno to Cassino. M Blumenson
Eighth Army in Italy 1943-45. The Long Hard Slog. R Docherty
And No Birds Sang. F Mowat
Dogface Soldier. The life of General Lucian K Truscott Jr. WA Heefner
War, Wool & Westminster: The Front Line Memoirs of Sir Paul Bryan. P Bryan
From Texas to Rome: A General’s Journal. FL Walker
The Fortress: A diary of Anzio and after. R Trevelyan
The perilous road to Rome via Tunis. E Grace
The German Army in the West. S Westphal
Command Missions. A Personal Story. LK Truscott
Major DM (John) Kennedy MC: A tribute. R Jocelyn
Anzio: An expected fury. BT Batsford
Anzio, the gamble that failed. M Blumenson
The Battle of Anzio. TR Fehrenbach
The Race for Rome.D Kurzman
D Day Dodger. JM Lee Harvey
The sky suspended. J Bailey
Infantry Brigadier. H Kippenberger
Trail of Hope. N Davies
A Doctor of Sorts. In Peace & War. VJ Downie
Ever your own, Johnnie, Sicily and Italy, 1943-45. N Kemp
Time at War. N Mosley
The Mirror of Monte Cavallara. R Ward
The Stretcher Bearers. DA Gordon
Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945. AL Hargreaves, PJ Rose and MC Ford
My War is Not Over. H Shindler and M Patucchi
A Vatican Lifeline ’44. WC Simpson
Rome Escape Line. SI Derry
Brute Force. J Ellis
The Economics of World War II. M Harrison
The German Army 1933-1945 – Its political and military failure. M Cooper
Memoirs. A Kesselring
Inside the Third Reich. A Speer
The Sharp End. The fighting man in World War II. J Ellis
Hitler as a military commander. J Strawson
Vessel of Sadness. W Woodruff
To hell and back. A Murphy
With the Eighth in Italy. L Melling
Salerno Remembered. G Curtis
Other Losses. An investigation into the mass deaths of German prisoners of war after World War 2. J Bacque
Where Bleed the Many. G Dunning
The Unwomanly Face of War. S Alexievich
Mussolini and his Generals. The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy 1922-1940. J Gooch
They jumped at midnight. W Breuer
Stand in the door! CH Doyle & T Stewart
Mussolini Warlord. Failed Dreams of Empire, 1940-1943. JH Burgwyn
Silver wings & a gold star. ED McCall
A Corporal once. LC Inglesby
At War on the Gothic Line. C Jennings
Eggs or Anarchy. W Sitwell
SAS Operation Gall. R Hann
Peace and War. W Newby
Albert Kesseling. PP Battistelli
Broken Images. J Guest
Love and war in the Apennines. E Newby
Medical units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy. JB McKinney
Churchill’s Colonel. C Barne
Everything worked like cockwork. The mechanisation of British Regular and Household Cavalry 1918-1942. R Salmon
History of the Fallschirm Panzerkorps Hermann Goring. F Kurowski
Mussolini’s War. J Gooch
With the Eight Army in Italy. L Melling
War in the Val d’Orcia. I Origo
Mussolini and the British. R Lamb
The Brutal Friendship: Mussolini, Hitler and the Fall of Fascism. FW Deakin
Mussolini’s Italy. M Gallo