Download or read book Across the Piave written by Edgar Norman Gladden and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Italian Front in World War I (1917). This publication is only available from TSO's on-demand publishing service (April 2001)

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Download or read book The Italian Army and the First World War written by John Gooch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new account of the role and performance of the Italian army in the First World War. Setting military events in a broad context, Gooch explores pre-war Italian military culture, and reveals how an army with a reputation for failure fought a challenging war in appalling conditions - and won.

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