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100		1	_aTREVELYAN Raleigh _eauthor
245		0	_aThe Fortress: _ba diary of Anzio and after / _cRaleigh Trevelyan
260			_aLondon: _bBuchan & Enright, _c1985
300			_a223 pages: _billustrations; _c21 cm
440			_aEchoes of War
520			_aIn Jan 1944, Allied forces landed at Anzio and Nettuno on the eastern coast of Italy in the attempt to skirt the German lines and secure the passage to Rome. Success depended upon the element of surprise, but the landings stalled and the Allied soldiers found themselves hemmed in at the beachhead in what become known as the Battle of Anzio. The environment was sodden and humid, and the fighting intense. It was into this desperate situation that Raleigh Trevelyan, then a twenty-year-old subaltern, found himself leading his platoon, right to the most dangerous, forward position, known as 'the Fortress'.The resulting account, based on Trevelyan's diaries of the time, is one of the most eloquent records of close combat and of the relentless horror of modern warfare written. In direct, intimate prose, it describes the lives, and deaths, of ordinary men, and is a poignant testimony of innocence eroded by the awfulness of war.
598			_aALLIED FORCES, BATTLE OF ANZIO, NETTUNO, ROME, 'THE FORTRESS'
650			_aWORLD WAR, 1939-1945 _xPERSONAL NARRATIVES, BRITISH
650			_a BATTLE OF ANZIO
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
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