Monte Cassino 80 years on: Remembering the devastating four-month battle

The battle of Monte Cassino was a pivotal event in the Italian campaign during the Second World War.

It was one of the bloodiest engagements of the war, and was infamous for its destruction of the monastery.

Monte Cassino eventually resulted in an Allied victory, but it cost 55,000 Allied casualties and the deaths of 2,000 civilians.

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