The Italian campaign of 1944 was considered by some at the time as merely a sideshow to the Allied thrust through continental Europe, with Allied soldiers in Italy referred to as 'D-Day Dodgers'. This program, however, with its use of archive footage and reconstruction, recounts the four major Allied assaults on Monte Cassino, the Benedictine monastery on the German Gustav defensive line, to illustrate how grueling the Italian offensive was, with massive losses suffered on both sides.