Tempting Providence: The Bombing of Monte Cassino
Were art and religion inevitable victims of war? David Colvin and Richard Hodges discuss the action and the issues it raised - including testimony from a surviving witness from the monastic community.
February 15th, 1944. The feastday of the Saints Faustinus and Giovita of Brescia. At 5.45am the 96th Bombardment Group based at Foggia were delivered the following brief in an underground cave:
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