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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 945 EAN: 9780465013296 ISBN: 0465013295 Label: Basic Books Manufacturer: Basic Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: March 23, 2009 Publisher: Basic Books Studio: Basic Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The Western Front dominates our memories of the First World War. Yet, a million and half men died in North East Italy in a war that need never have happened, when Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire in May 1915. Led by General Luigi Cadorna, the most ruthless of all the Great War commanders, waves of Italian conscripts were sent charging up the limestone hills north of Trieste to be massacred by troops fighting to save their homelands. This is a great, tragic military history of a war that gave birth to fascism. Mussolini fought in these trenches, but so did many of the greatest modernist writers in Italian and German - Ungaretti, Gadda, Musil, Hemingway. It is through these accounts that Mark Thompson, with great skill and empathy, brings to life this forgotten conflict. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Gives you a rounded picture of how culture and politics affected the military outcomesI have just finished reading "The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1918 by Mark Thompson which is a study of a 1st World War front that is often forgotten but where Italy lost 689, 000 solders( Britain lost 662,000 + 140, 000 reported as missing). That we tend to associate the infantry war with the plains of Flanders and Russia reveals the common myth as this part of the struggle was mountain warfare albeit also with trenches. The conduct of the war exposed the weak ... Read More 
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