The Allied decision to bomb Monte Cassino Abbey in February 1944 remains one of the most controversial of World War II. Believing that German forces were entrenched within the centuries-old monastery, ...

ROME (Reuters) - The former head of the world famous Roman Catholic Benedictine abbey of Montecassino, which was destroyed in World War Two and rebuilt, is under investigation on suspicion of ...

ROME – A newly discovered document in the Vatican Archives suggests that a more energetic response from Vatican officials eighty years ago might have prevented the deadly Allied bombing of the ...

THE BATTLE OF CASSINO (309 pp.)—Fred Majdalany — Houghfon Mlfflin ($4). The action started out as another ridge-and-river crossing by the victorious Fifth Army as it drove up the length of Italy. An ...