Swordpoint

by John Harris

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.

Genres: Historical Fiction

464 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

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Pseudonyms: Max Hennessy; Mark Hebden

Image is a self caricature from the late 1970s.

From Wikipedia:
John Harris was a British author. He published a series of crime novels featuring the character Inspector Pel, and war books. He wrote with his own name, and also with the pseudonym of Mark Hebden. His 1953 novel The Sea Shall Not Have Them was the basis for a feature film of the same name in 1954. He was the father of Juliet Harris, who published more Inspector Pel books under the name of Juliet Hebden.

Reviews

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This book, also, was recommended in the "Bookmarks" magazine's issues of either: (Nov/ Dec 2007) or (Jan/ Feb 2008).