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The Italian Army and the First World War (Paperback)
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The Italian Army and the First World War (Paperback)
Series: Armies of the Great War
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This is a major new account of the role and performance of the
Italian army during the First World War. Drawing from original,
archival research, it tells the story of the army's bitter
three-year struggle in the mountains of Northern Italy, including
the eleven bloody battles of the Isonzo, the near-catastrophic
defeat at Caporetto in 1917 and the successful, but still
controversial defeat of the Austro-Hungarian army at Vittorio
Veneto on the eve of the Armistice. Setting military events within
a broader context, the book explores pre-war Italian military
culture and the interactions between domestic politics, economics
and society. In a unique study of an unjustly neglected facet of
the war, John Gooch illustrates how General Luigi Cadorna, a brutal
disciplinarian, drove the army to the edge of collapse, and how his
successor, general Armando Diaz, rebuilt it and led the Italians to
their greatest victory in modern times.
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