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The Mansel Diaries: The Diaries of Captain John Mansel, POW Gillian Mansel

The Mansel Diaries: The Diaries of Captain John Mansel, POW Gillian Mansel

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    The Mansel Diaries: The Diaries of Captain John Mansel, Prisoner-of-War and Camp forger-in Germany 1940-1945
    Gillian Mansel
    FIRST EDITION!  Hard cover
    .  Privately Printed, 1977.  155
    pages.  Photographs.  Fine
    book
    in fine dust jacket.  Great copy!
    Few battles of the second world war—or of any war—compare with Cassino for epic grandeur, prolonged agony, and an almost classic sense of tragedy. The gallantry of both sides during the long winter of heroic deadlock; the appalling natural difficulties that had to be endured ; the historical significance of the ancient Benedictine Abbey which was unwittingly the battle's centre-piece; the storm of controversy over the Allies' reluctant decision to bomb it; above all, the brooding presence of Monte Cassino itself—all these factors combined to give the battle and its setting a quality that was almost theatrical.Now for the first time the full story of Cassino has been told by an author well qualified to undertake the task. Fred Majdalany not only took part in the battle as an infantry officer—his earlier work The Monastery, was a brilliantly vivid little sketch of one part of it--but he has since made an exhaustive study of the operation, from the highest strategical level down to the actions of individual men.In addition to studying documents and records of both sides, he was given the fullest co-operation by high military authorities and leading members of the Benedictine Order, and he also spent some time revisiting the battlefield.The controversies that Cassino provoked are discussed in this book with frankness--but to the detachment of the historian Majdalany has added the insight of the artist, and the knowledge and understanding of the battle that could come only from participation in the events he describes. The result is a work of permanent value to the military student, while the general reader will find it one of the clearest and most absorbingly readable accounts yet written of modern war.
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