Suddenly, many of those who had surrendered and fled, turned around and grabbed their rifles to fight. The full story of the famous battle in 1918.
Thirty months of war boiled down to a desperate battle on a small, poor piece of land. The incompetent leadership of Luigi Cadorna, alongside the strategic blunders of Badoglio, lead millions of under-militarized and inadequately trained Italian men to slaughter by the Austrian troops. Alfio Caruso narrates the harrowing days led by Rommel – house-to-house fighting in Udine, the desperate stand along the Piave, the controversial replacement of Cadorna with Diaz, Badoglio’s salvation. This continued until the relentless attrition of the Austrian German allowed Italy to repel their last-ditch offensive in the summer of 1918.
