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The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mark Thompson
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:496
Dimensions(mm): Height 195,Width 125
Category/GenreFirst world war
ISBN/Barcode 9780571223343
ClassificationsDewey:940.4145
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 2 April 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The Western Front dominates our memories of the First World War. Yet a million and a 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 great 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.

Author Biography

Mark Thompson lives in Oxford. He is the author of A Paper House, a much-praised account of the fall of Yugoslavia. He worked for the UN in the Balkans for much of the 1990s.