The Beginning of Futility
by Gaetano V. Cavallaro
"Diplomatic, Political, Military and Naval Events on the Austro-Italian Front in the First World War, 1914-1917"
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The Beginning of Futility by Gaetano V. Cavallaro
Details
War:
World War I
Perspective:
Researcher
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
No
Region:
Europe
Published Date:
2009
ISBN13:
9781401084264
Description
"Based on half a century of interviews with surviving veterans, research trips to official archives in Vienna, Rome, London, Paris, and Berlin, many visits to the sites of battle, and a close reading of secondary sources, this work takes the reader on almost a day-by-day journey alongside the Italian peasants in uniform, and their Austrian and German counterparts, who fought and died in the mountains of Northern Italy during the Great War. The author recounts the complicated military events from the perspective of both sides, assessing the strategic and tactical decisions that led to such carnage on this often overlooked front in the war"--Foreword.
