Quote Originally Posted by IanD View Post
Monte Cassino was a meat grinder. But I'm sure you know that. I've taken school groups up to the monastery, the Polish memorial and to a CWG down on the plain below. Very emotional. By a strange coincidence, when teaching, I ended up with a large 3D model, that was supposedly made by German PoWs, of the Monte Cassino area. It was donated as a teaching aid. How anyone managed to even get up to the monastery, fight, not freeze and live is beyond me.
There was an episode on The World at War which focused on Monte Cassino. It was gripping.