Harold Alexander Quote

No other troops in the world but German paratroops could have stood up to such an ordeal and then gone on fighting with such ferocity.


Quoted in Peter Caddick-Adams: "Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell" (Oxford University Press, 2013) p. 289.


No other troops in the world but German paratroops could have stood up to such an ordeal and then gone on fighting with such ferocity.

No other troops in the world but German paratroops could have stood up to such an ordeal and then gone on fighting with such ferocity.

No other troops in the world but German paratroops could have stood up to such an ordeal and then gone on fighting with such ferocity.

No other troops in the world but German paratroops could have stood up to such an ordeal and then gone on fighting with such ferocity.