A Bailey bridge destroyed by the artillery fire, a knocked out Sherman tank, a column smoke from the ruins, the shaved Monastery Ridge: Cassino, 1944. Victor Sierra

After the battle

Ruins looking in the Gari river’s water, none living soul, a death’s silence: Cassino, 1944 (Davis, Frank J. photo). Victor Sierra

A ghostly landscape

A man along a shell-shattered road, a puddle of water stagnant, shriveled trees without any leaf, smoke still standing up the Monastery Ridge, a pasty sun: Cassino 1944. Victor Sierra