Swordpoint: A novel of Cassino - Hardcover

Harris, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 009140990X ISBN 13: 9780091409906

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1980

Synopsis

A story about the Allied assault on Monte Cassino in February 1944 seen through the eyes of Colonel Yuell and his men of the North Yorkshires, veterans of the Desert Campaign in Africa. Famous for its hilltop monastery for over a thousand years, Monte Cassino achieved a new renown when it became a German bastion against the Allied advance through Italy. Even when the abbey buildings had been reduced to rubble, the mountain itself continued to command the adjoining river valleys and to black the road to Rome.

About this title

About the Author:

John Harris, who also wrote under the pen names of Mark Hebden and Max Hennessy was born in 1916. He authored the best-selling The Sea Shall Not Have Them. He was a sailor, an airman, a journalist, a travel courier, a cartoonist and a history teacher. During the Second World War he served with two air forces and two navies. After turning to full-time writing, Harris wrote adventure stories and created a sequence of crime novels around the quirky fictional character Chief Inspector Pel. A master of war and crime fiction, his enduring novels are versatile and entertaining.

Review:

'A master of the gripping adventure yarn' -- The Daily Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 009140990X
• ISBN 13: 9780091409906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 284