Polish painter and graphic designer Stanislaw Westwalewicz produced this propaganda poster for the Polish Public Relations Unit in London in 1944. (The Polish government was one of eight governments-in-exile based in London during World War II.) Between January 17 and May 18 of that year, the Polish II Corps, equipped by the British army, had been among the Allied forces involved in four assaults on Monte Cassino and its ancient abbey, occupied by the Germans. While the Germans were ultimately forced off the mountain, Allied casualties far exceeded those of the enemy. The illustration is centered on the stylized figure of an infantryman of the Polish II Corps with his rifle advancing toward the monastery of Monte Cassino, seen in the distance on the right. The red color seeping into the landscape and picked up in the Italian-language lettering evokes the extremely bloody nature of this hard-won Allied victory.