The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-191
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-191
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[align=center]The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson & Gerard Doyle (Narrator) [Unabridged]
Publisher: Audible, Inc. (11 Dec 2009) | ISBN n/a ASIN: B0030GTA3Y | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/64Kbps | 553 MB[/align]
The Western Front dominates our memories of the First World War. Yet a million and half men died in northeast 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 those trenches, but so did many of the greatest modernist writers in Italian, German, and English: Ungaretti, Gadda, Musil, Hemingway. It is through these accounts that Mark Thompson, with great skill and empathy, brings to life this forgotten conflict.
[/align][align=center]The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson & Gerard Doyle (Narrator) [Unabridged]
Publisher: Audible, Inc. (11 Dec 2009) | ISBN n/a ASIN: B0030GTA3Y | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/64Kbps | 553 MB[/align]
The Western Front dominates our memories of the First World War. Yet a million and half men died in northeast 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 those trenches, but so did many of the greatest modernist writers in Italian, German, and English: Ungaretti, Gadda, Musil, Hemingway. It is through these accounts that Mark Thompson, with great skill and empathy, brings to life this forgotten conflict.