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baldwin


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Thought I would pass this on. Holiday reading was the above book by Mark Thompson life and death on the Italian front 1915-1919.
Apart from photo's in the various Great War pictorials I didn't have much clue on the details of Italy's part in the 1 War. This excellent book has altered that,a very good read.

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That sounds rather interesting. Don't know much about Cadorna, the Italian CIC, but I gather he actually was as bad as WWI commanders are generally held to have been. Have read the reviews in the broadsheets, the reliability of which, of course,  depends on the quality of the reviewer, and there are some curious assertions. It seems hardly appropriate to say that Italy joined the "triumphant Allies" in 1915 - the year of Champagne, Loos, Gallipoli, Kut, Gorlice, etc. And it's claimed that Italy was alone in joining the War purely for territorial gain. If that is what Mr. Thompson asserts, I think Romania, Bulgaria, and Japan might disagree.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/aug/30/history.italy

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-white-war-by-mark-thompson-956434.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3559867/Review-The-White-War-by-Mark-Thompson.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3561693/Review-The-White-War-by-Mark-Thompson.html

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article4625496.ece

http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/2009/05/06/simon-ps-review-the-white-war-by-mark-thompson/



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If you find anything regarding the fights around the Monte Pasubio area - you should read it. So to say it was the Verdun of the alps. If Austria were winning the fights - Italy would have been finished immediately more than one time.

I have been there on a 2-days tour. I did the street of the 52 tunnels. Great natural scene, great work of Italian engineers and you still can see the wound of the biggest mine in WW1 was used in that great mountain nature.

Hours after you could still see fire spitting out of the mountains, because of the heat of the mine detonation ammunition was blowing up. You can find pictures on the web.

I bought a book about it. A part of a diary of an Italian officer was printed. He did discribe their attack on the Austrian lines and how horrible their losses were. And then he discribes how horrifying the counter attack was. He wrote that the only thing what saved them was thta the Austrian couldn't step good and quick enough about the bodies of the dead italian soldiers. And that the Austrians were slipping down to earth because of alle the blood.

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Fascinating.

http://www.magicoveneto.it/Pasubio/Pasubio/StradaGallerie-1.htm

There are several vids of the area on Youtube.

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