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The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 (original 2008; édition 2008)

par Mark Thompson

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In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled.With elegance and pathos, historian Mark Thompson relates the saga of the Italian front, the nationalist frenzy and political intrigues that preceded the conflict, and the towering personalities of the statesmen, generals, and writers drawn int… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919
Auteurs:Mark Thompson
Info:Faber and Faber (2008), Hardcover, 464 pages
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The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 par Mark Thompson (2008)

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This is a comprehensive look at the Italian fronts from WW I. In addition to covering the battles, the book also discusses the Italian politics around the war. Austrian politics and strategy are also discussed but only briefly. What was particularly useful in the book were the discussions of Italian literature, art, and journalism as impacted by the war.

Focusing on Italy actually helped me understand the wider picture of WW I. I had recently taken a long hiking trip along the Isonzo front so was familiar with many of the battle sites. Slovenia and Italy have created a memorial hike called the Walk of Peace that visits many of the WW I battle scenes.

The biggest weakness of the book is the lack of maps and the exclusive use of Italian place names. The Italians and Austrians had very different names for towns and mountains. Most of the area covered in the book is in present-day Slovenia so the Italian place names are not used in any of the current maps of the area. The maps included in the book are too few to make up for this deficiency. ( )
1 voter M_Clark | Dec 28, 2023 |
Agli albori del 1915 l’Italia è una nazione ancora da forgiare: non c’è una lingua, non c’è un sentimento comune. Gli italiani devono temprarsi in una solida unità nazionale. La soluzione è la guerra, la fucina il campo di battaglia. A pagarne il prezzo saranno i giovani costretti in un fronte che corre per seicento chilometri, dalle Dolomiti all’Adriatico. Combatteranno in un biancore di pietre e di neve che dura tutto l’anno, saranno uniti nella paura e nell’angoscia, uccideranno. Nel 1919 chi alla patria aveva dato tutto si lascia conquistare dalla «trincerocrazia» di Mussolini e dall’idea che la Grande guerra costituisca il fondamento della nazione. Si prepara così la scena per l’avvento del fascismo. Valorizzando fonti come i diari dell’epoca e le interviste ai veterani, lo storico inglese Mark Thompson con La guerra bianca restituisce il pathos degli assalti alle trincee, ripercorre con sobrietà e precisione l’epica del fronte italiano, mette a nudo la foga nazionalistica e gli intrighi politici che hanno preceduto il conflitto.
  kikka62 | Mar 20, 2020 |
My great grandfather was a Seargent Major in the Italian Infantry in this war. He was captured by the Austrians and kept for almost 3 years. He escaped late in the war and passed down a journal with his retelling of his time in the war. A tremendous treasure. This book did a great job filling in the history and details of the political climate surrounding the war that I did not know. ( )
  VinceLaFratta | Sep 25, 2018 |
My great grandfather was a Seargent Major in the Italian Infantry in this war. He was captured by the Austrians and kept for almost 3 years. He escaped late in the war and passed down a journal with his retelling of his time in the war. A tremendous treasure. This book did a great job filling in the history and details of the political climate surrounding the war that I did not know. ( )
1 voter VinceLa | Sep 23, 2018 |
‘La più colossale, assassina e male organizzata macelleria’. Come ben sapeva Ernest Hemingway, la Grande Guerra è stata talmente orribile che gli Alleati hanno poi concesso ad Hitler anche l’inconcedibile pur di allontanare l’inizio di un nuovo conflitto. Atroce sul fronte occidentale, lo scontro fu particolarmente insensato su quello italoaustriaco, grazie anche alla crudeltà del Comando italiano. L’inglese Thompson smonta con cura la mitologia nata attorno al ’15-‘18, anni di sangue voluti da una minoranza e pagati a carissimo prezzo dagli strati più popolari del Paese, mandati al macello a volte senza neppure sapere perché. Oltre che di pietà, leggere queste pagine è fonte di sconforto e di rabbia. Ci sono i viscidi maneggi di Calandra per forzare l’entrata in guerra nella speranza di una rapida vittoria – errore che verrà ripetuto di lì a non molti anni – e le tattiche suicide di Cadorna, al quale non si capisce come ci possano ancora essere vie e piazze dedicate; la cattiveria al limite del sadismo delle punizioni nell’esercito ed il rifiuto di inviare i pacchi viveri ai prigionieri visti come traditori; la vittoria tardiva contro un impero morente e l’avido e incomprensibile comportamento alla conferenza di pace. Il tutto inquadrato in bei capitoli dedicati alla situazione sociale e culturale del tempo che includono, fra le varie sfaccettature, una pesantissima critica ad un giornalismo servile e pernicioso: il ritratto senza sconti di un Paese fragile e già avvelenato da inquietanti segnali protofascisti. ( )
  catcarlo | Dec 4, 2014 |
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Mark Thompson has produced a history of the conduct of the First World War on the Italian front which is comprehensive, judicious and often beautifully written. It is a view primarily from an Italian rather than an Austrian point of view though as is perhaps obvious it is not particularly sympathetic to Italian war aims. It is even conceivable that some will find it anti-Italian...
 
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In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled.With elegance and pathos, historian Mark Thompson relates the saga of the Italian front, the nationalist frenzy and political intrigues that preceded the conflict, and the towering personalities of the statesmen, generals, and writers drawn int

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