The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919
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The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919
Author: Thompson, Mark
Brand: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Binding: paperback
Number Of Pages: 496
Release Date: 02-04-2009
Part Number: NUSBK20160901-C131883
Details: 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.
EAN: 9780571223343
Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.0 x 1.4 inches
Languages: English
