Italian Army and the First World War Gooch John University of Leeds
Italian Army and the First World War Gooch John University of Leeds This is a major new account of the role and performance of the Italian army during the First World War. Setting military events…
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Italian Army and the First World War Gooch John University of Leeds
This is a major new account of the role and performance of the Italian army during the First World War. Setting military events within a broader context, the book explores pre-war Italian military culture and the interactions between domestic politics, economics and society. Drawing from original, archival research, it tells the story of the army's bitter three-year struggle in the mountains of Northern Italy, including the eleven bloody battles of the Isonzo, the near-catastrophic defeat at Caporetto in 1917 and the successful, but still controversial defeat of the Austro-Hungarian army at Vittorio Veneto on the eve of the Armistice.
In a unique study of an unjustly neglected facet of the war, John Gooch illustrates how General Luigi Cadorna, a brutal disciplinarian, drove the army to the edge of collapse, and how his successor, general Armando Diaz, rebuilt it and led the Italians to their greatest victory in modern times.
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