The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 Social History Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed

Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war’s key players

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the British Army's campaign in the Middle East during World War I is considered somehow less brutal than the fighting on European battlefields

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The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 Social History Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayedDescription by Mark Thompson Paperback In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled. With elegance and pathos, historian Mark Thompson relates the saga