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James H


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Usual apologies if this isn't new.

While trying to find out what happened where the Italian Front met the Swiss border, came across these. A lot of trenches preserved (because they're in rock, not earth) and some museums and cemeteries. Most impressive.

Nothing precise about how and where the Front ended, but I should imagine that the terrain formed a natural barrier, rather more substantial than that at the end of the Western Front.

http://www.montepiana.com/intro.htm

http://www.montepiana.com/gallery.htm

http://www.frontedolomitico.it/Fronte/Paesaggi/Piana/foto/albumGuerraPiana/default.html



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Also relevant is this battery at Colico built to halt a potential attack around the flank through Switzerland

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Centurion wrote:

Also relevant is this battery at Colico built to halt a potential attack around the flank through Switzerland


My word. That is imposing. Thank you, Centurion. I found this site on it, which is in Italian but I can struggle through it with a bit of French: http://www.truppealpine.it/Forte%20Montecchio.htm


I haven't been able to find a map that shows the Front in the north-west in much detail. Does anyone have any sources?



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Hi James you may find something here.....

http://www.fortificazioni.net/

http://www.alpinia.net/forte_oga/pagine/index.html

http://alainlecomte.free.fr/links.htm

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Thanks, Ivor. That took me in lots of directions.

Have we had this site full of maps of The War?

http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/WorldWarOne/index.htm

Here's the Front. It looks as if there was no movement to speak of throughout the War at the western end. The terrain probably made it impossible. The Front is shown in red, advances in blue. The only advance in the west was after Vittorio Veneto, when the game was more or less up anyway (yellow arrow).

The fortress at Colico is shown by the purple arrow, over 100km behind the Front, covering, as Cent says, potential advances through the passes from Switzerland.


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