CONTENTS

Foreword		v
The Anzio Landing (22-29 January)		1
	Plan for a New Offensive	3
	The Assault	11
	Expanding the Beachhead	18
The Allied Offensive (30 January-1 February)		27
	Attack on Cisterna, 30 January	28
	Attack on Cisterna, 31 January-1 February	33
	Advance to Campoleone	36
The Enemy Attacks (3-12 February)		43
	Battle of the Campoleone Salient	44
	The Beachhead Defense	47
	The Factory and Carroceto	53
	Allied Counterattacks	62
The Major German Offensive (16-20 February)		67
	Preparing for the Attack	67
	The First Day, 16 February	70
	The Second Day, 17 February	75
	The Crisis, 18-19 February	80
	The Battle is Won, 19-20 February	85
VI Corps Holds the Beachhead (20 February-3 March)		91
	The Battle of the Caves	92
	The 3d Division Repulses the Enemy	97
The Breakthrough		105
	The Problem of Supply	107
	Life at the Beachhead	112
	Casualties	116
	The Breakthrough, 23 May-4 June	116

Illustrations

	Page
Frontispiece-After the Battle	xi
The Anzio Beachhead Terrain	2
Littoria and the Right Flank	4
Maj. Gen. John P. Lucas	5
Preloaded Supply Trucks and DUKWS	7
Troops Filing Aboard at Naples	8
The Anzio Landing	11
Enemy Coastal Defences	12
Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark	13
A Destroyed Mussolini Canal Bridge	14
Engineers Clearing Demolition Charges at Anzio	15
An Air Attack on Cisterna	16
Putting Down Road Matting	17
Unloading at Anzio's Docks	19
Advancing Towards the Mussolini Canal	20
The Right Flank at the Mussolini Canal	22
Enemy Shellfire Hitting the Beaches	23
Antiaircraft Guns and Barrage Balloons	25
Isola Bella and Cisterna	29
Each Building Became a Fortress	31
Tanks Take Momentary Cover	32
An Artillery Observer's View	35
Zone of Armored Attack on the Left Flank	39
Campoleone Station	41
Farmhouse Attacked in the British Zone	45
Forward Observation Posts	48
Wire-Laying Crews	49
Camouflaged Artillery Positions	51
Destruction of Equipment in Nettuno	52
The Butterfly Bomb	53
"Hell's Half Acre"	55
The Factory	56
No Man's Land	58
Counterbattery Fire by Antiaircraft Units	59
The Overpass at Carroceto	63
German Artillery in the Factory	64
The Albano Road Sector	69
Bombardment of the Anzio and Nettuno Areas	71
Dugouts Along the Mussolini Canal	73
Bomb Concentrations on Campoleone Station	76
The First Overpass Above Anzio	78
Tanks Move Up the Albano Road	83

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Engineers Bridge a Stream	84
Prisoners Formed Long Columns	85
The German "Goliath" Tank	88
The Caves	93
Maj. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott	97
Smoke Over the Front Lines	98
Enemy Losses	103
A Destroyed Ammunition Dump	106
A Raid on an Enemy Position	108
Rushing the Farmhouse	109
A Supply Dump	110
Anzio Annie	111
VI Corps HQ at Nettuno	112
Revetting the Hospital Tents	114
Living Conditions at the Front	115
The Capture of Cisterna	118
The Fall of the Factory	120
The Entry into Rome	121

Maps

No.
1	The Italian Front, 15 January
2	Allied Strategy in Italy, January 1944
3	The Landing, 22-23 January
4	Expanding the Beachhead, 24-28 January
5	Expanding the Beachhead, 29 January
6	Expanding the Beachhead, 30 January
7	Expanding the Beachhead, 31 January
8	Expanding the Beachhead, 1 February
9	Campoleone Salient, 3-5 February
10	Plan for Beachhead Defense, 5 February
11	The Factory and Carroceto, 7-8 February
12	The Factory and Carroceto, 9 February
13	The Factory and Carroceto, 10 February
14	Allied Counterattacks, 11-12 February
15	Enemy Offensive, 16 February
16	Enemy Offensive, 17 February
17	Enemy Offensive, 18 February
18	Enemy Offensive, 19-20 February
19	Regrouping of Forces
20	Holding the Beachhead, 28 February-3 March
21	The Breakthrough, 23-24 May
22	The Breakthrough, 25-26 May
23	The Breakthrough, 27-28 May
24	The Breakthrough, 29-30 May
25	The Breakthrough, 31 May-4 June

AFTER THE BATTLE. The central square of Cisterna, 26 May 1944.