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The White War
Life and Death on the Italian Front
1915–1919

MARK THOMPSON

For Noel, George, and Sanja –
in time and always

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Note on Sources

Introduction: ‘Italians! Go back!’

1 A Mania for Expansion

2 ‘We Two Alone’

3 Free Spirits

4 Cadorna’s Clenched Fist

5 The Solemn Hour Strikes

6 A Gift from Heaven

7 Walls of Iron, Clouds of Fire

8 Trento and Trieste!

9 From Position to Attrition

10 The Dreaming Barbarian
...We kill each other like this, coldly, because whatever does not touch the sphere of our own life does not exist … If I knew anything about that poor lad, if I could once hear him speak, if I could read the letters he carries in his breast, only then would killing him like this seem to be a crime.

If the anonymity was mutual, so was the peril. Better than anyone in the world, the enemy who wants to kill you knows your anguish.
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